When Mary Farmer was born on 11 October 1829, in Preston Wynne, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Richard Farmer Sr, was 43 and her mother, Elizabeth Morris, was 41. She married Thomas Jefferson Butterfield on 15 March 1857, in President's Office, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Withington, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 20 years. She died on 1 January 1890, in Herriman, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Herriman, 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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