Brief Life History of Sarah
When Sarah Salmon was born about 1707, in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Salmon, was 27 and her mother, Joane Woolridge, was 31.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Sarah Salmon - Church record: Birth record or certificate: birth-name: Sarah Salmon
- Sarah Salmon, "England, Somerset, Church Records, 1501-1999"
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1801 · The Act of Union
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Name Meaning
English and French: from the Middle English and Old French personal name Salmon, Saumon, a shortened form of Salomon (see Solomon ). The Normans introduced it to England, and it was current as a personal name there until at least the end of the 14th century. The derived surname is found throughout 13th- and 14th-century England, mostly in the spellings Saleman and Salman, which eventually became regularized as Salmon. See also 2 below, compare Salman 3.
English: occasionally perhaps a nickname for someone ‘as wise as Solomon’. In Chaucer's Canon's Yeoman's Tale, it is stated: ‘And whan we been togidres euerichoon, Euery man semeth a Salomon’. King Solomon was famed for his wisdom.
English: nickname from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English salmon, saumo(u)n, saumun, samoun ‘salmon’, no doubt given to someone who caught, sold, or ate the fish.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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