Brief Life History of Samuel
When Samuel Farmer was christened on 21 January 1721, in Steppingley, Bedfordshire, England, his father, Robert Farmer, was 37 and his mother, Elizabeth, was 32. He was buried in Steppingley, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom.
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Family Time Line
Sources (1)
- Samuell Farmer, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
Parents and Siblings
1684–1742 Male
1690–1763 Female
Siblings (6)
1717–1773 Male
1719–1767 Male
1721–1802 Male
1722–1789 Female
1724– Female
+1 More Child
World Events (6)
1752 · Gregorian Calendar is Adopted
1754 · Seven Years' War
1770 · Boston Tea Party
Name Meaning
English: occupational name from Middle English fermo(u)r, fermer and Anglo-Norman French fermer (Old French fermier, medieval Latin firmarius). The term denoted in the first instance a tax farmer, one who undertook the collection of taxes, revenues, and imposts, paying a fixed (Latin firmus) sum for the proceeds, and only secondarily someone who rented land for the purpose of cultivation; it was not applied to an owner of cultivated land before the 17th century.
Irish: Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Mac an Scolóige ‘son of the husbandman’, a rare surname of northern and western Ireland.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered form Therrien . Compare Pharmer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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