When Elizabeth Ann Farmer was born on 17 October 1848, in Reigate, Surrey, England, United Kingdom, her father, James Morris Farmer, was 31 and her mother, Sarah Trussler, was 31. She married Almon Butterfield on 27 January 1866, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Steyning, Sussex, England, United Kingdom in 1852 and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1860. She died on 5 February 1931, in Herriman, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Herriman, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1851: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1852: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1856: Cedar, Utah Territory, United States 1862: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
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English: occupational name from Middle English fermo(u)r, fermer and Anglo-Norman French fermer (Old French fermier, medieval Latin firmarius). The term denoted in the first instance a tax farmer, one who undertook the collection of taxes, revenues, and imposts, paying a fixed (Latin firmus) sum for the proceeds, and only secondarily someone who rented land for the purpose of cultivation; it was not applied to an owner of cultivated land before the 17th century.
Irish: Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Mac an Scolóige ‘son of the husbandman’, a rare surname of northern and western Ireland.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered form Therrien . Compare Pharmer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesThis research grew out of a project on my line. I realized there were many connections between my family in Herriman (Crane's) and the Farmer/Trussler family. I made this document to help me understan …
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