Farrow Salter and Esther Mason

The church of St Nicholas, Great Yarmouth
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Farrow Salter (bap. 25 Nov 1730 at St Margaret's, Lowestoft), son of Farrow and Rebecca Salter, married Esther Mason (bap. 19 Aug 1733 at St Nicholas, Great Yarmouth), daughter of James and Eliza Mason, at St Nicholas Church, Great Yarmouth (now Great Yarmouth Minster) on 21 Sep 1751.

The name Farrow is primarily a name of English origin that means Ironsmith.

Farrow and Esther Salter had at least 11 children:

1. Thomas Salter bap. 12 Aug 1753 at St Nicholas, Great Yarmouth
2. Christiana Salter bap. 28 Sep 1756 at St Nicholas, Great Yarmouth (given name on baptism was written and transcribed as Christian, however, Christiana has been used in the family and she married as Christina.)
3. Esther Salter b. ~1758. Buried at St Nicholas, Great Yarmouth, daughter of Farrow and Esther, on 27 Jul 1759 (with no corresponding baptism). 
4. Esther Salter bap. 10 May 1760 at the Yarmouth, Gaol Street, Old Meeting (Presbyterian). Buried 17 Dec 1764 in Yarmouth, Norfolk.
5. Rebecca Salter bap. 10 Nov 1762 at Yarmouth, Gaol Street, Old Meeting
6. Farrow Salter bap. 6 May 1765 in Great Yarmouth. Buried 18 May 1766 at St Nicholas, Great Yarmouth
7. Farrow Salter bap. 26 May 1767 in Great Yarmouth
8. Esther Salter bap. 11 Oct 1769 at Yarmouth, Gaol Street, Old Meeting
9. Ann Salter bap. 15 May 1772 at Yarmouth, Gaol Street, Old Meeting
10. Sarah Salter bap. 19 Apr 1775 at Yarmouth, Gaol Street, Old Meeting
11. Judith Salter bap. 13 Jul 1778 at Yarmouth, Gaol Street, Old Meeting (Presbyterian). Buried 8 Jan 1786 in Yarmouth, Norfolk (record specifies father as Farrow and mother as Esther Mason.)

In 1790, Farrow Salter (60) was listed in the record set, British Mariners, Trinity House Calendars. This was one of the Trinity House Petitions of merchant sailors who were seeking financial assistance from the Corporation of Trinity House at Deptford in Kent and London. The Corporation distributed charitable funds entrusted to it by benefactors for the aid of seafarers and their dependents. 

Farrow Salter, therefore, must have been a mariner who became unable to work.

Farrow Salter died at 67 and was buried on 25 Apr 1797 at Great Yarmouth. 

Hester (sic) Salter was buried on 10 Dec 1805 in Horsleydown, Surrey, the area of Bermondsey / Southwark where her daughter Esther Smith was living.