Margaret Metcalf was born in 1585, in Yarm, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. She married John Sayer about 1610. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She died in 1658, in her hometown, at the age of 73.
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English (Yorkshire): apparently a nickname from Middle English mete ‘meat, food’ + calf ‘calf’, i.e. ‘calf to be fattened up for eating’.
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