Brief Life History of John
When John Hall was born on 23 June 1760, his father, James Hall, was 28 and his mother, Elisabeth Pinkerton, was 26.
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Family Time Line
Sources (1)
- John Hall, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
Parents and Siblings
1732– Male
1734– Female
Siblings (5)
1758– Female
1760– Male
1762– Female
1768– Male
1770– Male
World Events (3)
1802 · John Playfair publishes summary of James Hutton's theories of geology.
Age 42
1815
Age 55
1823
Age 63
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, Irish, German, Norwegian, and Danish: from Middle English hall (Old English heall), Middle High German halle, Old Norse hǫll all meaning ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), hence a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a hall or an occupational name for a servant employed at a hall. In some cases it may be a habitational name from any of the places called with this word, which in some parts of Germany and Austria in the Middle Ages also denoted a salt mine. Hall is one of the commonest and most widely distributed of English surnames, bearing witness to the importance of the hall as a feature of the medieval village. The English surname has been established in Ireland since the 14th century, and, according to MacLysaght, has become numerous in Ulster since the 17th century.
Swedish: ornamental or topographic name from hall ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), or a habitational name from a placename containing the element hall ‘rock’ (from Old Norse hallr).
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 何 and 賀, see He 1 and 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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