When John Arthur Bolt was born on 26 February 1879, in Montague Township, Muskegon, Michigan, United States, his father, Ate "Arthur" Jan Bolt, was 26 and his mother, Janna "Jane" Wit, was 26. He married Etta Koster on 30 March 1909, in Spring Lake, Ottawa, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Montague, Muskegon, Michigan, United States in 1880 and Claybanks Township, Oceana, Michigan, United States in 1900. He died on 5 January 1938, in Muskegon, Muskegon, Michigan, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Spring Lake Cemetery, Spring Lake, Ottawa, Michigan, United States.
English: from Middle English bolt ‘bolt, bar’, also ‘bundle’ (Old English bolt ‘arrow’). One of the most common senses of this word was ‘the blunt-headed bolt of a crossbow’, so it could have been given to an archer or to a maker of iron bars or bolts. Bolt was also used metaphorically for a short, thickset, or tubby person and for someone who was physically upright as a bolt, i.e. ‘as straight as an arrow’.
English: variant of Bold 1.
Dutch, North German, and Danish: from the ancient Germanic personal name Baldo, a short form of various compound names with the first element bald ‘bold’. See also German Bold , compare German and Danish Boldt .
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