Salts of the Earth

Location: United Kingdom, United States of America, Australia, New Zealand ... and other former Commonwealth colonies/countries.
Surnames/tags: Salt Sault

About the Project

The Salt Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Salt name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join the study to help make it a valuable reference point for other genealogists who are researching or have an interest in the Salt name.

As a One Name Study, this project is not limited to persons who are related biologically. Individual studies can be used to branch out the research into specific methods and areas of interest, such as geographically (England Salts), by time period (18th Century Salts), or by topic (Salt DNA, Salt Occupations, Salt Statistics). These studies may also include a number of family branches which have no immediate link with each other. Some researchers may even be motivated to go beyond the profile identification and research stage to compile fully sourced, single-family histories of some of the families they discover through this name study project.

Also see the related surnames and surname variants.

Adding profiles to the Study

Add {{One Name Study|name=Salt}} immediately below the ==Biography== line in Salt profiles to add a profile to the Salt Name Study, especially secured profiles that other members can't tag. This will also display the Salt Name Study box you can see here.

List of Profiles in Study

Salt DNA

How to Join

To join the Salt Name Study, first start out by browsing our current research pages to see if there is a specific study ongoing that fits your interests. If so, feel free to add your name to the Membership list below, post an introduction comment on the specific team page, and then dive right in!

If a research page does not yet exist for your particular area of interest, please contact the Name Study Coordinator: Alan Salt for assistance.

Once you are ready to go, you can also show your project affiliation with the ONS Member Sticker:

Research Pages

Here are some of the current research pages included in the study. I'll be working on them, and could use your help!

Membership

• Alan Salt

Salt Name Origin

Anglo-Saxon

"SALT. This surname is very common in Staffordshire, in which county there is a village so called. In 1106, it is written Selte. Lib. Nig. Scacc. In the reign of Henry III. Ivo de Saut held one knight's fee in Saut, of the Barony of Stafford. Subsequently Hugh de Salt held Salt of Philip de Chetwynd. From this tenure, and from the resemblance of the arms, it is probable that Salt was a cadet of Chetwynd. In the Visitations of Staffordshire there are pedigrees of this family, from whom descend Thomas Salt, Esq., jun., M.P. for Stafford, and William Salt, Esq., F.S.A." - from Patronymica Britannica: A Dictionary of the Family Names of the United Kingdom, by Mark Antony Lower, Published by J.R. Smith, 1860, Original from Oxford University, Digitized 19 Jun 2006, 443 pages.

An English locational surname from the town of Salt in Staffordshire, recorded as "Selte" in the Domesday Book of 1086, and as "Salt" in the 1167 Pipe Rolls of that county. The name derives from the Olde English pre 7th Century "selte" meaning a salt-pit. At the beginning of the century there were salt works within two miles of the town. Locational surnames were usually acquired by a local landowner, or by the lord of the manor, and especially by those former inhabitants of a place who had moved to another area, and were thereafter best identified by the name of their birthplace. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as the Poll Tax.

Salt is a village which is three miles northeast of Stafford, England situated half a mile southwest of the A51 trunk road and lying on elevated ground above the western side of the Trent valley.

SALT, with Enson, a township, in the parish of St. Mary and St. Chad, Stafford, union of Stafford, S. division of the hundred of Pirehill, N. division of the county of Stafford, 4 miles (N. E. by N.) from Stafford. A church dedicated to St. James has been erected and endowed by Earl Talbot, in whom the patronage is vested. There is also a place of worship for Wesleyans.

World Distribution

https://forebears.io/surnames/salt

Related Surnames and Surname Variants

• Sault

Origin: C17: from Canadian French, from French saut: a leap, ( also tumble or rapids: somersault, Sault St. Marie) but some Salts have adopted that spelling.

The Crest

The Salt Family Coat of Arms is described as: 'Azure, a chevron indented between two mullets.'

Hugh de Salt held Salt of Philip de Chetwynd. From this tenure, and from the resemblance of the arms, it is probable that Salt was a cadet of Chetwynd. (A cadet is a younger son, as opposed to the firstborn heir. As an adjective, "cadet" is used to signify a junior branch of a family. Thus, the Orleans line was a cadet branch of the Bourbon family. For the status as such, the noun cadency exists, as in the heraldic term mark of cadency for a feature which distinguishes a cadet son's coat of arms from the father's which is passed on unaltered only to the (usually) firstborn heir.)

Salt Baronets, of Saltaire & Crow Nest(1869) have their own unique crest.

Salts of Distinction

Salt baronets, of Saltaire & Crow Nest(1869)

Sir Titus Salt was a textile manufacturer from Bradford, near Leeds, who died aged 73 in 1876. Titus was born in 1803 the son of Daniel Salt of Bradford. Titus Salt developed a textile manufacturing empire in Leeds following his discovery of a technique for commercially spinning alpaca hair. Through his services to industry, Titus Salt was created a Baronet (knighted) in 1869. Sir Titus is also noted by town planning students for his development of a model town outside Bradford which he called Saltaire, and which today forms part of the greater Bradford urban area.

Sir Titus Salt, 1st Baronet (1803-1876)

Sir William Henry Salt, 2nd Baronet (1831-1892)

Sir Shirley Harris Salt, 3rd Baronet (1857-1920)

Sir John William Titus Salt, 4th Baronet (1884-1953)

Sir David Shirley Salt, 5th Baronet (1930-1978)

Sir Anthony Houlton Salt, 6th Baronet (1931-1991)

Sir Patrick MacDonnell Salt, 7th Baronet (b. 1932)

Salt baronets, of Standon and Weeping Cross (1899)

Sir Thomas Salt, 1st Baronet (12 May 1830 – 8 April 1904), was a British banker and Conservative politician. In 1899 he was created a Baronet, of Standon, and of Weeping Cross in the County of Stafford.

Sir Thomas Salt, 1st Baronet (1830–1904)

Sir Thomas Anderton Salt, 2nd Baronet (1863–1940) High Sheriff of Staffordshire 1909.

Sir Thomas Henry Salt, 3rd Baronet (1905–1965)

Sir (Thomas) Michael John Salt, 4th Baronet (born 1946)

Henry Salt FRS (1780 - 1827)

British diplomat and collector. Born in Lichfield (14th June 1780). He originally trained as a portrait painter and went to London (1797) as a pupil to Joseph Farrington, RA, and subsequently to John Hoppner, RA.

He travelled, during 1802-1806, as secretary and draughtsman with George Annesley, Viscount Valentia, throughout the East, visiting India, Ceylon, Abysinnia and Egypt, contributing a number of drawings to his employer's publication, 'Voyages and Travels' (1809).

During 1809-1811, he went on a Government mission to Abyssinia and later published an account of this trip, 'Voyage to Abyssinia' (1814) and was appointed, in 1815, British Consul-General in Egypt, arriving there in 1816.

In 1819 he married at Alexandria, a daughter of Mr. Pensa , merchant at Leghorn. About 1821 he had a daughter, Georgina Henrietta , and in Apr. 1824, another child, Julia, who died almost immediately, with the mother.

He excavated extensively in Egypt, procuring a large number of antiquities for The British Museum and for his own collection. He employed Belzoni in Thebes and sponsored his excavations in Nubia. He also sponsored Caviglia's work around the Pyramids and d'Athanasi also worked under his direction at Thebes.

He sent a large collection of antiquities (his 'First Collection') to The British Museum in 1818.

Henry died from a disease of the spleen on 30 (or 29) Oct. 1827 at the village of Dessuke, near Alexandria. He was buried at Alexandria.

Henry Shakespear Stephens Salt (1851 - 1939)

He was was an English writer and campaigner for social reform in the fields of prisons, schools, economic institutions, and the treatment of animals. He was a noted ethical vegetarian, anti-vivisectionist, socialist, and pacifist, and was well known as a literary critic, biographer, classical scholar and naturalist. It was Salt who first introduced Mohandas Gandhi to the influential works of Henry David Thoreau, and influenced Gandhi's study of vegetarianism.

Salt is credited with being the first writer to argue explicitly in favour of animal rights, in his Animals' Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Progress (1894), rather than focusing on improvements to animal welfare. He wrote: "If we are ever going to do justice to the lower races, we must get rid of the antiquated notion of a 'great gulf' fixed between them and mankind, and must recognize the common bond of humanity that unites all living beings in one universal brotherhood." He passed away in 1939.

John Stevenson Salt High Sheriff of Staffordshire (1838)

John Stevenson Salt (25 June 1775 – 16 August 1845)[1] was an English barrister, banker and land owner.

He married in 1800 Sarah Stevenson, granddaughter of William Stevenson, founder in 1737 of Stevenson's Bank in Stafford. The bank was established at Cheapside, London in 1788. Salt became a partner in the bank, which in 1801 was renamed Stevenson and Salt. In 1867 it merged with Bosanquet & Co and later with Lloyds Banking Company.

He owned estates at Weeping Cross, Stafford where in 1813 he built the White House, and at Standon Hall, Staffordshire. He served as High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1838.

William Salt FSA MRSL (1808 - 1863)

William Salt FSA MRSL (29 October 1808 – 6 December 1863) was a British banker in London, England, and a genealogist and antiquary in whose memory the William Salt Library in Stafford was founded.

Salt was an avid collector of topographical and genealogical books and records, particularly those relating to Staffordshire. After his death his extensive collection was catalogued and donated to the County of Stafford, which financed the opening in 1872 of the William Salt Library in Market Square, Stafford.

He was also commemorated in the name of the William Salt Archaeological Society, founded in 1879 as a text publication society to publish local and national documents relating to the history of Staffordshire. The society changed its name in 1936 to the Staffordshire Record Society.