When Anne Belt was born in 1708, her father, Joseph Belt, was 29 and her mother, Esther Beall, was 21. She married Thomas Clagett III on 10 March 1724, in Prince George's, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She died in 1729, in Maryland, British Colonial America, at the age of 21.
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English and North German: metonymic occupational name for a leather belt or strap maker or a nickname for someone who wore a distinctive belt, from Middle English belt ‘belt, girdle’ (Old English belt), Middle Low German balt.
German: from a short form of the ancient Germanic personal name Baldher (see Belter ).
North German: habitational name from a place called Beelte (see Belter 2).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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