When Joseph Barlow Felt was born on 22 December 1789, in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, John Felt, was 25 and his mother, Elizabeth Curtis, was 25. He married Abigail Adams Shaw on 18 September 1816, in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1850. In 1815, at the age of 25, his occupation is listed as ministry in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. He died on 8 September 1869, in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 79.
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English: metonymic occupational name for someone who made, worked with, sold, or perhaps wore felt, from Middle English felt ‘felt’. Compare Felter .
German: rare variant of Feld ‘field, area of open country’, or an Americanized form of its cognate Velt.
Swedish: rare variant of Feldt , a cognate of 2 above, and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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