When Elizabeth Farmer was born on 17 December 1714, in St George's Parish, Baltimore, Maryland, British Colonial America, her father, Gregory Farmer, was 34 and her mother, Sarah Hughes, was 30. She married Thomas Hawkins on 24 January 1731, in Baltimore, Maryland, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 21 January 1748, in Baltimore, Maryland, British Colonial America, at the age of 33.
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English: occupational name from Middle English fermo(u)r, fermer and Anglo-Norman French fermer (Old French fermier, medieval Latin firmarius). The term denoted in the first instance a tax farmer, one who undertook the collection of taxes, revenues, and imposts, paying a fixed (Latin firmus) sum for the proceeds, and only secondarily someone who rented land for the purpose of cultivation; it was not applied to an owner of cultivated land before the 17th century.
Irish: Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Mac an Scolóige ‘son of the husbandman’, a rare surname of northern and western Ireland.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered form Therrien . Compare Pharmer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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