Sale Family History
Sale Name Meaning
English: from Middle English sale ‘hall’, a topographic
name for someone living at a hall or manor house, or a metonymic
occupational name for someone employed at a hall or manor house.English: from Middle English salwe ‘sallow’ (a tree, a kind
of willow), hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a sallow
tree, or a habitational name from for example Sale in Greater
Manchester, named from the old dative form of this word, in atte
sale.French (Salé): from Old French
salé ‘salty’, hence a topographic or occupational name for
someone who lived by or worked in a salt marsh, or, in a figurative
sense, a nickname for an amusing or witty person.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Sale
Name Distribution of Sale Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sale families
 49 - 95  17 - 48 |
 1 - 16  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Sale families
|
193 - 384 65 - 192 |
1 - 64 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sale families
|
6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Sale census records
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Sale Family Origin
Sale Immigration Information
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You can find out when most of the Sale families immigrated
to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Sale
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An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your ancestors lived in harsh conditions.
A short lifespan might also indicate health problems that were once prevalent in
your family.
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Sale Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Sale census records
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Sale Civil War Service Records
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