When Lena Blanche Brackett was born on 13 October 1875, in Lowell, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Charles Edward Brackett, was 28 and her mother, Angie K Silloway, was 28. She died on 14 January 1876, in her hometown, at the age of 0.
English (of Norman origin): nickname from Old French brachet, a diminutive of brach ‘hound which hunts by scent’ (see Brack 4). The word was also used as a term of abuse.
History: Captain Richard Brackett (1610–c. 1691) came to Boston, MA, c. 1629, and moved to Braintree, MA, in 1641.
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