When Timothy Halstead was born in 1716, in New Hempstead, Rockland, New York, United States, his father, Timothy Halstead III, was 30 and his mother, Margery Pearsall, was 24. He married Elizabeth West on 25 November 1746, in Shrewsbury Township, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He died on 5 March 1762, in Shrewsbury Township, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 46.
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English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from any of various places bearing this name, for example in Essex (Haltesteda in Domesday Book), Kent, and Leicestershire, all of which are probably named from Old English h(e)ald ‘refuge, shelter’ + stede ‘site’, or possibly Hawstead in Suffolk, which has the same origin. However, the name is now most frequent in Lancashire and Yorkshire, where it is from High Halstead in Burnley, named as the ‘site of a hall’, from Middle English hal(le) + sted(des), stud(es) ‘hall buildings’ (Old English h(e)all ‘hall’ + stede ‘place’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesJosiah and Timothy Halstead were buried in the church yard of the old Christ Church in Shrewsbury.
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