When Levi Rand was born in 1830, in Pereaux, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, Levi Rand, was 37 and his mother, Phebe Lounsbury, was 37. He married Rachel Graves on 31 March 1855. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1865. He died on 15 November 1865, at the age of 35, and was buried in Blomidon, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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English: from the Middle English personal name Rand, a pet form of Randolf. Compare Randolph , Randall , Randy , and see also Rance .
English: habitational name from Rand (Lincolnshire), Rand Grange (North Yorkshire), or Raunds (Northamptonshire), all of which derive from Old English rand ‘edge, border, rim’.
German: from a short form of any of various ancient Germanic compound personal names formed with rand ‘rim (of a shield)’. Compare 1 above.
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