When Elizabeth Salmon was born in 1836, in Oatlands, Tasmania, Australia, her father, Joseph Salmon, was 27 and her mother, Eleanor Mc Donnell, was 21. She married Michael Solomon on 13 October 1857, in Oatlands, Tasmania, Australia. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 9 March 1868, in Fingal, Tasmania, Australia, at the age of 32, and was buried in Oatlands, Tasmania, Australia.
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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.
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