When Elizabeth French Slaughter was born in 1790, in King George, Virginia, United States, her father, Captain Philip Pendleton Slaughter, was 32 and her mother, Margaret French Strother, was 27. She married Isaac Hite Williams about 1796, in Fredericksburg, Rockbridge, Virginia, United States. She lived in Springfield, Greene, Missouri, United States in 1850 and Washington, District of Columbia, United States in 1850. She died in 1868, in King George, Virginia, United States, at the age of 78.
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in East Anglia and Essex, an occupational name from Middle English slaughter ‘butcher’, a derivative of Middle English slaught ‘butchery’ + er, or from a shortened form of the synonymous Middle English slaughterer, a derivative of slaughter ‘butchery’ + -er. Compare Slater 2.
in Sussex and Surrey a habitational name denoting residence at one or other of several minor placenames such as Slaughter Bridge in Slinfold, Slaughter Bridge in Shipley, Slaughterford (Farm) in Itchingfield, the lost Slaughters in Billingshurst (all Sussex), and Slaughterwicks Barn in Charlwood (Surrey). The names may derive from Middle English slo(gh) ‘sloe, blackthorn’ (Old English slāh) + tre ‘tree’ (Old English trēow), or from Middle English sloghtre, sloghtere ‘slough, mire, muddy place’, or perhaps ‘deep river valley’, or ‘ditch’ (Old English slōhtre). The latter is certainly the etymology of Upper and Lower Slaughter (Gloucestershire) and The Slaughter in English Bicknor (Gloucestershire).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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