When Sarah Holton was born about 1730, in Fauquier, Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, Alexander Eleazer Holton, was 21 and her mother, Elizabeth Brickey, was 20. She married Joseph Johnston about 1755, in Kentucky, United States. She died on 28 June 1820, in Mason, Grant, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 91.
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English: habitational name from any of various places called Holton, such as those in Oxfordshire, Suffolk, Dorset, and Somerset. The Oxfordshire and Somerset placenames derive from Old English halh ‘nook, corner of land’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, while the Suffolk placename comes from the Old English personal name Hōla + tūn. The Dorset placename derives from Old English hol ‘hole, hollow’ or holt ‘wood, grove, thicket’ + tūn.
Irish: altered form of O'Haltahan, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUltacháin ‘descendant of Ultachán’, a diminutive of Ultach ‘Ulsterman’. This is a rare Fermanagh surname, sometimes Anglicized as Nolan .
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