Brief Life History of Freeborn
When Freeborn Wolf was born in 1632, in England, United Kingdom, her father, Peter Wolfe, was 30 and her mother, Martha Hadington, was 33. She married Robert Sallows from about 1653 to 1654, in Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. She died on 30 January 1682, in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
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- John Black, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Freeborn Wolfe Sallows, "Find A Grave Index"
- Freegrace in entry for Peter Black, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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Name Meaning
German, English, Dutch, and Danish: from a short form of the various ancient Germanic compound names with the first element wolf ‘wolf’, or a byname or nickname with this meaning, or a topographic or habitational name referring to a house distinguished by the sign of a wolf. The wolf was native throughout the forests of Europe, including Britain, until comparatively recently. In ancient and medieval times it played an important role in ancient Germanic mythology, being regarded as one of the sacred beasts of Woden. The surname of German origin is also found in many other parts of Europe, e.g. in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Poland, Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Croatia, often as a German translation of local equivalents. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Hungarian Farkas , Czech and Slovak Vlk , Slovenian Volk , Ukrainian and Slovenian Vovk , Slovenian, Croatian, and Serbian Vuk , and also Czech, Slovenian, Croatian, Slovak, and Hungarian Volf . In part, this is a Gottscheerish (i.e. Gottschee German) surname, originating from the Kočevsko region in Lower Carniola, Slovenia (see Kocevar ). Compare De Wolf , Wolfe , Wolff , Woolf , Woulfe , and Wulf .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish male personal name Volf meaning ‘wolf’, which is associated with the Hebrew personal name Binyamin (see Benjamin ). This association stems from Jacob's dying words ‘Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil’ (Genesis 49:27). Compare Volf .
Irish: variant of Woulfe .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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