Sarah Hall

Brief Life History of Sarah

When Sarah Hall was born on 26 May 1668, in District 7, Somerset, Maryland, British Colonial America, her father, Charles Hall, was 33 and her mother, Alice Lane, was 23. She married James Curtis on 2 February 1685, in Marion, Somerset, Maryland, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. She died before 18 April 1720, in Somerset, Maryland, British Colonial America.

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Family Time Line

James Curtis
1666–1721
Sarah Hall
1668–1720
Marriage: 2 February 1685
Elizabeth Curtis
1687–1755
Catherine Curtis
1690–1727
Esther Curtis
1690–
Mary Curtis
1689–
Charles Curtis
1692–1742
James Curtis
1694–
Sarah Curtis
1696–1735
Rachel Curtis
1710–1744

Sources (18)

  • Sarah Hall, "Maryland Births and Christenings, 1650-1995"
  • Sarah Hall, "Maryland County Marriages, 1658-1940"
  • Sarah in entry for Mary Curtiss, "Maryland Births and Christenings, 1650-1995"

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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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