Brief Life History of Thomas
When Thomas HALL Jr. was born on 26 September 1802, in Dutchess, New York, United States, his father, Thomas Hall, was 38 and his mother, Amy Doty, was 36. He died on 19 October 1805, in his hometown, at the age of 3.
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- Thomas Jr in entry for Thomas Hall, "Michigan Obituaries, 1820-2006"
Parents and Siblings
1764–1843 Male
1766–1829 Female
Siblings (11)
1786–1830 Male
1788–1854 Female
1789–1854 Male
1791–1836 Male
1793–1848 Female
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World Events (3)
1803
Age 1
1803 · The U.S doubles in size
Age 1
1804
Age 2
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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