Brief Life History of Sarah
When Sarah Salmon was born in 1716, in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Thomas Salmon, was 23 and her mother, Sarah Janes, was 23. She married John Moss about 1735, in Jamaica, Queens, New York Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 29 April 1785, in Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States, at the age of 69.
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Name Meaning
English and French: from the Middle English and Old French personal name Salmon, Saumon, a shortened form of Salomon (see Solomon ). The Normans introduced it to England, and it was current as a personal name there until at least the end of the 14th century. The derived surname is found throughout 13th- and 14th-century England, mostly in the spellings Saleman and Salman, which eventually became regularized as Salmon. See also 2 below, compare Salman 3.
English: occasionally perhaps a nickname for someone ‘as wise as Solomon’. In Chaucer's Canon's Yeoman's Tale, it is stated: ‘And whan we been togidres euerichoon, Euery man semeth a Salomon’. King Solomon was famed for his wisdom.
English: nickname from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English salmon, saumo(u)n, saumun, samoun ‘salmon’, no doubt given to someone who caught, sold, or ate the fish.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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