When Sarah Saul was born in 1769, in Burton-in-Kendal, Westmorland, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Saul, was 34 and her mother, Jane Catterick, was 29. She died on 24 September 1770, at the age of 1.
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English, French, German, Italian, and Jewish: from the personal name Saul (Hebrew Shaul ‘asked-for’), the name of the king of Israel whose story is recounted in the first book of Samuel. In spite of his success in uniting Israel and his military prowess, Saul had a troubled reign, not least because of his long conflict with the young David, who eventually succeeded him. Perhaps for this reason, the personal name was not particularly common in medieval times. A further disincentive to its popularity as a Christian name was the fact that it was the original name of Saint Paul, borne by him while he was persecuting Christians, and rejected by him after his conversion to Christianity. It may in part have arisen as a nickname for someone who had played the part of the Biblical king in a religious play.
English: variant of Sall .
English and Irish: variant of Sale 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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