When Zachariah Lane was born on 29 January 1845, in Willow, Ulster, New York, United States, his father, Uriah Lane, was 27 and his mother, Mary Ann Plough, was 25. He married Leah Hoyt on 4 July 1868, in Woodstock, Ulster, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Woodstock, Ulster, New York, United States for about 20 years. He died on 9 June 1871, in Willow, Ulster, New York, United States, at the age of 26, and was buried in Willow, Ulster, New York, United States.
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English: topographic name for someone who lived in a lane, from Middle English, Old English lane, originally a narrow way between fences or hedges, later used to denote any narrow pathway, including one between houses in a town.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Laighin ‘descendant of Laighean’, a byname meaning ‘spear or javelin’.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luain ‘descendant of Luan’, a byname meaning ‘warrior’, formerly Anglicized as O'Loan. See also Lamb .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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