Brief Life History of George W
When George W Hall was born on 28 July 1865, in Darlington, Lafayette, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Samuel H. Hall Jr, was 47 and his mother, Mariah Maria Wheeler, was 43. He married Nellie J Shaw on 23 May 1889. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Vernon Springs, Howard, Iowa, United States in 1880 and Forest City Township, Howard, Iowa, United States for about 10 years. He died on 15 July 1939, in Cresco Township, Kossuth, Iowa, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Lime Springs, Howard, Iowa, United States.
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- George Hall in household of Samuel Hall, "United States Census, 1870"
- George Hall, "Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992"
- George W Hall, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"
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Name Meaning
English, Scottish, Irish, German, Norwegian, and Danish: from Middle English hall (Old English heall), Middle High German halle, Old Norse hǫll all meaning ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), hence a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a hall or an occupational name for a servant employed at a hall. In some cases it may be a habitational name from any of the places called with this word, which in some parts of Germany and Austria in the Middle Ages also denoted a salt mine. Hall is one of the commonest and most widely distributed of English surnames, bearing witness to the importance of the hall as a feature of the medieval village. The English surname has been established in Ireland since the 14th century, and, according to MacLysaght, has become numerous in Ulster since the 17th century.
Swedish: ornamental or topographic name from hall ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), or a habitational name from a placename containing the element hall ‘rock’ (from Old Norse hallr).
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 何 and 賀, see He 1 and 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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