When Marian Halstead was born on 26 December 1887, in Dixon, Nebraska, United States, her father, Elmore Ellis Halstead, was 35 and her mother, Henrietta Cynthia Howe, was 32. She died on 2 June 1976, in Alameda, California, United States, at the age of 88.
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from any of various places bearing this name, for example in Essex (Haltesteda in Domesday Book), Kent, and Leicestershire, all of which are probably named from Old English h(e)ald ‘refuge, shelter’ + stede ‘site’, or possibly Hawstead in Suffolk, which has the same origin. However, the name is now most frequent in Lancashire and Yorkshire, where it is from High Halstead in Burnley, named as the ‘site of a hall’, from Middle English hal(le) + sted(des), stud(es) ‘hall buildings’ (Old English h(e)all ‘hall’ + stede ‘place’).
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