When Elizabeth Sale was born in 1709, in Northill, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Sale, was 26 and her mother, Mary Guillians, was 25. She married Wiliam Odell on 21 May 1730, in Sandy, Bedfordshire, England. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She died in 1754, in her hometown, at the age of 45, and was buried in Astwood, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom.
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English: habitational name from Sale (Cheshire), or from any of several minor places or topographic features named from Middle English sale, salle ‘sallow, willow’ (Old English s(e)alh). See also Seal , with which this name may often have interchanged.
English: from Middle English sal(e) ‘hall’ (Old English sæl, Old French sale, Old Norse salr), translated by medieval clerks as Latin aula. The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived or worked in a hall, or occupational, for someone who worked at a hall as a servant. This was the name of an Anglo-Norman family who had settled in County Tipperary, Ireland, by the 13th century. The name was Gaelicized as de Sál, hence the Anglicized form Saul which has been widely adopted in Ireland.
Croatian (Šale): probably from a pet form of the personal name Šanto, a Croatized form of Italian Santo .
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