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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Sale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:
England & Wales
Scotland
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
You can see how Sale families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
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Sale Family Origin
Sale Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Sale families immigrated
to the United States.
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Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Sale Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Sale families immigrated
to Australia.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Sale Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Sale census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Sale ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Military Service by Sale
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