When Susanna Scales was born on 6 March 1784, in Henry, Virginia, United States, her father, Joseph Henry Scales, was 34 and her mother, Anne Harden Perkins, was 31. She married Isaac W Nelson on 8 December 1803, in Henry, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 2 May 1819, at the age of 35.
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English:
plural form of Scale , naming a herdsman living and working on a summer pasture, or a habitational name for someone from a place called Scales, mostly minor places in Lancashire and Yorkshire. Scholes is a dialect variant of the same name.
(of Norman origin): habitational name either from Écalles-Alix (Seine-Maritime), Écalles (in Estouteville-Écalles, Seine-Maritime), or from Escalles (Pas-de-Calais). The earliest spellings of these names suggest a derivation from Latin scala, scalae (plural) ‘ladder, staircase, stile’, perhaps applied to a steep slope or path, although Old Norse skáli (‘herdsman's hut, shieling’, see Scale ) has also been suggested for Écalles. Challis may be a variant of the same name. The surname has also been established in southern Ireland (Limerick) since the 14th century.
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