When Harriet S Batt was born on 10 March 1811, in Smarden, Kent, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Batt, was 22 and her mother, Elizabeth Seeley, was 32. She married William Simmons Baker on 28 September 1828, in Sevenoaks, Kent, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 11 daughters. She lived in Richmond, Cache, Utah, United States in 1880 and Richmond Election Precinct, Cache, Utah, United States in 1900. She died on 8 April 1908, in Warren, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 97, and was buried in Plain City Cemetery, Plain City, Weber, Utah, United States.
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English: from the Middle English personal name Bat(te), probably a pet form of Middle English Bartelmew (see Bartholomew ) or perhaps the rarer Bartram (see Bertram ).
English: probably in many cases a variant of Back 2 ‘bat’ (the winged animal), applied as a nickname. The alteration of Middle English bakke to bat is not on record before 1580, but the frequency with which le Bat occurs in medieval documents suggests that this is a likely source of the name. Alternatively, it may be from Middle English bat(te) (Old English batt) ‘cudgel, club, bat’, perhaps for someone of stout appearance or for one who wielded a bat.
English: topographic name, of uncertain meaning. That it is a topographic name seems clear from examples such as Walter atte Batte (Somerset 1327), but the meaning of the term is in doubt although it is found in medieval field names.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesOne hundred and eighty-nine years ago on this date, October 19th, my 3rd-great grandparents William Simmons Baker and Harriet Batt were married in Kent, England. Excerpts from their obituaries state: …
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