Stephen Hall

Brief Life History of Stephen

When Stephen Hall was born on 5 October 1675, in Northumberland, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, Thomas Hall, was 26 and his mother, Margaret Ashton, was 25. He had at least 3 sons and 8 daughters with Catherine Leasure. He died in 1726, at the age of 51.

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Family Time Line

Stephen Hall
1675–1726
Catherine Leasure
1690–
Mary Hall
1704–
Ann
Margaret Hall
1705–1754
Anne Hall
1709–
Catharine Hall
1709–
Catheren Hall
1710–
Leasure Hall
1711–1772
Thomas Hall
1713–
Stephen Hall
1714–1791
Martha Hall
1720–
Winifred Hall
1721–1786

Sources (4)

  • Stephen Hall, I, 'Geni World Family Tree' on MyHeritage
  • Farrow Family
  • Webpage of Prince William VA court records and other material in "James French of Prince William County, VA Overwharton, Stafford County, VA and Montgomery Co. KY." French Family Association: The Official Website of the Surname French

Name Meaning

English, Scottish, Irish, German, Norwegian, and Danish: from Middle English hall (Old English heall), Middle High German halle, Old Norse hǫll all meaning ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), hence a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a hall or an occupational name for a servant employed at a hall. In some cases it may be a habitational name from any of the places called with this word, which in some parts of Germany and Austria in the Middle Ages also denoted a salt mine. Hall is one of the commonest and most widely distributed of English surnames, bearing witness to the importance of the hall as a feature of the medieval village. The English surname has been established in Ireland since the 14th century, and, according to MacLysaght, has become numerous in Ulster since the 17th century.

Swedish: ornamental or topographic name from hall ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), or a habitational name from a placename containing the element hall ‘rock’ (from Old Norse hallr).

Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 何 and 賀, see He 1 and 2.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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