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SADLER Family History

This interesting name is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is an occupational surname for someone who made, and also perhaps sold, saddles and harness for horses in general. The name derives from the Olde English pre 7th Century "sadol", in Olde Saxon "zadel", and in Middle English and Middle German "sadel". Obviously the job was a very important one in medieval Europe, when horses provided the only form of land transport available, and were vital in times of peace and war to carry men and supplies. One Peter le Sadelare appears in the 1296 Records of the Manor of Wakefield, Yorkshire, and a Thomas Sadeler in the 1379 Poll Tax Returns of Yorkshire.