When Elizabeth Sawtell was born in 1606, in Aller, Somerset, England, her father, John Sawtell II, was 34 and her mother, Agnes Pittard, was 27. She died in July 1609, in her hometown, at the age of 3, and was buried in Aller, Somerset, England.
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English (Somerset):
perhaps a nickname from an unrecorded adjective or noun related to the Middle English verb saughtelen ‘to make peace, be reconciled’.
alternatively, perhaps an altered form of French Sautel, from a diminutive of saut ‘leap’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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