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- This is from Ancestry.com, was posted anonymously. The source is being sought.
The Harrisons are said to have come into England with the Norse Viking Sea Kings, who finally under Canute (1016-1035) conquered and possessed the whole of the country. They were among the "free Danes" and were the last to withstand William the Conquerer, himself of Norse Viking origin. Thus they were in England a generation or more before the time of the Battle of Hastings, Oct 14, 1066, and the period of the Doomesday Book (1085-1086), from which many old English families date their origin. Northumberland, the Danish section of England, is said to be filled with Harrisons now, and the name there is variously spelled, sometimes without an H. The name being of Danish patronymic origin. Arysen, Aertzen, which is common to this day in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. (Richmond, Virginia Standard, No. 41, June 12, 1880). That Daniel and Robert were favorite early given names among the Harrisons of Northumberland is shown by a record of the baptism of Daniell, son of Robert Harrison in the parish of Berwick-on-Tweed, under date of December 26, 1610. Northumberland, is the northernmost shire of England. To the east it borders on the North Sea, and to the north on the River Tweed, which separates it from Scotland. Berwick, Northumberland is the farthest north of any city of England. From the old kingdom of the north, the Harrisons drifted south among the various other shires and some moved into Scotland. Directly South of Northumberland, and bordering also on the North Sea, lies the county of Durham. The county was one of the Counties Palatine; the other two being Lancashire and Cheshire. The city of Durham is the seat of the catherdral of St. Cuthbert, begun in 1095, the view of which from the river is said be surpassed by no other English cathedral.
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1530 - 1595 (65 years)