When Sarah Thistle was born about 1689, in Manchester, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Richard Thissel Sr., was 49 and her mother, Elizabeth Patch, was 44. She married Benjamin Cole on 16 November 1710, in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She died before 22 December 1725, in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
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English (Yorkshire): apparently from Middle English thistel ‘thistle’ (Old English thistel), either as a nickname, or as a topographic name for someone who lived in a place overgrown with thistles.
In some cases an Americanized form of Norwegian Tistel: habitational name from the farm Tistel in Sogn, same origin as 1 above.
Possibly also an Americanized form of German Distel .
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