Brief Life History of Thomas
When Thomas Seal was born on 5 April 1646, in Stoke Abbott, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Seale, was 34 and his mother, Katherina Pavie, was 30. He married Katherine about 1669, in Stoke Abbott, Dorset, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters.
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Spouse and Children
1646– Male
1649– Female
Children (8)
1671–1671 Female
1672– Male
1674–1743 Male
1676– Female
1679– Female
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1611–1690 Male
1616–1687 Female
Siblings (7)
1642– Female
1643– Male
1646– Male
1649– Male
1650– Male
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Name Meaning
English: either a habitational name from Seal (Kent), Seale (Surrey), or Sele in Upper Beeding (Sussex), all of which probably derive from Old English sele ‘hall, building’ (though the Surrey placename may arise from Old English sēale, dative form of salh ‘willow’), or else a topographic name for someone who lived at a boggy patch (Kentish Middle English and Old English sele) or a hall. Compare Sale 1-2.
English: habitational name from Overseal or Netherseal (Derbyshire), probably from Old English scegel ‘small wood’.
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a willow copse or at a place marked by a willow or willows, from Middle English sele ‘willow’ (Old English sele), in northern England representing Old Norse selja and in southwestern England representing Old English (West Saxon) sealh. The name was probably interchangeable with the synonymous Middle English sale (Old English salh, Old Norse salr), and in some cases the surname may have functioned as a variant of Sale . In southwestern England initial S- was frequently voiced to Z-, as in the Wiltshire placename Zeals (from the plural form of Old English sealh). However, the medieval form of the placename is overwhelmingly in the plural, and this may also survive as Sales .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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