When John Blythe Sprott was born on 19 May 1826, in Bethesda, Williamson, Tennessee, United States, his father, Blythe Sprott, was 33 and his mother, Rachel Blythe, was 31. He married Sarah Jane Crutcher on 24 May 1849, in Williamson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 19 November 1897, in Williamson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Sprott Cemetery, Williamson, Tennessee, United States.
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English and Scottish: nickname perhaps for a small person, from Middle English sprot, sprat (Old English sprott) ‘small species of herring, sprat’. It may also have been used as a personal name.
English and Scottish: nickname perhaps for a small, thin person, from Middle English sprote, sprotte (Old English sprota, sprot) ‘shoot, twig, rod’. It is an alternative source of the Old English and early Middle English personal name Sprot (see above). It gave rise to Sprott and Sproat, and was more or less synonymous with Middle English sprout ‘(new) shoot of a plant, bud’.
German: probably a habitational name from any of the places called Sprotte (Westphalia, Saxony-Anhalt), Sprotta (Silesia).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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