When Martina Tart Or Tartre was born in 1853, in Essex, Essex, Essex, New York, United States, her father, Moses Tart Sr, was 32 and her mother, Catherine Lavoie, was 28.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English (mainly Staffordshire and Shropshire):
nickname from Old English teart ‘sharp’ or ‘rough’, used as a nickname and sometimes a personal name.
from the Middle English personal name Tart(e), perhaps of the same origin as the nickname in 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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