When Hannah Felt was born on 26 February 1808, in Pike, Wyoming, New York, United States, her father, Nathan Felt, was 32 and her mother, Felt, was 24. She married Stephen Wight on 23 November 1823, in Centerville, Allegany, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Alabama, Genesee, New York, United States in 1850 and Pembroke, Genesee, New York, United States in 1860. She died in Jefferson, Greene, Iowa, United States.
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English: metonymic occupational name for someone who made, worked with, sold, or perhaps wore felt, from Middle English felt ‘felt’. Compare Felter .
German: rare variant of Feld ‘field, area of open country’, or an Americanized form of its cognate Velt.
Swedish: rare variant of Feldt , a cognate of 2 above, and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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