When Frances Farmer was born about 1789, in Halifax, Virginia, United States, her father, Matthew Farmer, was 47 and her mother, Margaret "Molley" Glass Farmer, was 24. She married John Bass on 12 January 1807, in Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She died before 1820, in Virginia, United States.
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English: occupational name from Middle English fermo(u)r, fermer and Anglo-Norman French fermer (Old French fermier, medieval Latin firmarius). The term denoted in the first instance a tax farmer, one who undertook the collection of taxes, revenues, and imposts, paying a fixed (Latin firmus) sum for the proceeds, and only secondarily someone who rented land for the purpose of cultivation; it was not applied to an owner of cultivated land before the 17th century.
Irish: Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Mac an Scolóige ‘son of the husbandman’, a rare surname of northern and western Ireland.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered form Therrien . Compare Pharmer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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