When Olivier Ranger was born on 2 March 1813, in Lower Canada, British North America, his father, Joseph Marie Ranger, was 44 and his mother, Angelique Milot, was 30. He married Émilie Veroneau in 1839, in Coteau-du-Lac, Vaudreuil-Soulanges, Quebec, Canada. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 22 October 1867, in Saint-Polycarpe, Soulanges, Quebec, Canada, at the age of 54.
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English: occupational name for a gamekeeper or warden, from Middle English ranger ‘gamekeeper, warden’, an agent derivative of range(n) ‘to arrange or dispose’.
French: from the ancient Germanic personal name Ranghari, composed of the elements rang ‘curved’ and hari ‘army’.
German: variant of Rang 2, 3.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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