Brief Life History of John
When John salter was born in 1788, in Devon, England, United Kingdom, his father, Henry Bennett, was 54 and his mother, Mary Lemon, was 54. He had at least 1 son.
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- John Salter in entry for Mary Tibbits Salter, "New Hampshire Deaths and Burials, 1784-1949"
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1801 · The Act of Union
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for an extractor or seller of salt (a precious commodity in medieval times), from Middle English salter(e) ‘producer or seller of salt’. There may have been some post-medieval confusion with Souter ; see also Saltman .
English: occupational name from Middle English sautreour ‘minstrel, player of the psaltery (a stringed musical instrument)’ (Old French sautere ‘psaltery’, Latin psalterium, Greek psaltērion, from psallein ‘to sound’). Compare Rutter .
German: northern variant of Salzer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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