When Alice Garbutt was born on 4 June 1878, in Lexington, Lexington Township, Sanilac, Michigan, United States, her father, Job Garbutt, was 42 and her mother, Eliza Jane Hayward, was 34. She lived in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1935 and Amadore, Worth Township, Sanilac, Michigan, United States in 1940. She died in 1957, in Lexington, Lexington Township, Sanilac, Michigan, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Lexington, Lexington Township, Sanilac, Michigan, United States.
English (Yorkshire and Durham): from any of the three Middle English personal names of Norman origin: Gerbod (ancient Germanic Gerbodo), Gerbert (ancient Germanic Gerbert, Girbert), and Gerbold (ancient Germanic Gerbald, Gerbold). These three names became confused at an early date. They derive from gēr ‘spear’ + either bod ‘messenger, message, command’, berht ‘bright’, or bald ‘bold, brave’. Gerbold (French Gerbaud) was the name of a 7th-century Christian saint, bishop of Bayeux, as a result of whose cult the personal name was popular among the Normans and introduced by them into England.
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