When Lamar W Messinger was born on 23 May 1913, in Soda Springs, Caribou, Idaho, United States, his father, Melvin Howard Messinger, was 33 and his mother, Grace Byington, was 22. He died on 24 May 1913, in his hometown, at the age of 0.
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English: variant of Messenger .
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a brazier, from an agent derivative of Middle High German messinc ‘brass’, German Messing, from Greek mossynoikos (chalkos) ‘Mossynoecan bronze’, named after the people of northeastern Asia Minor who first produced the alloy.
German: habitational name for someone from Mössingen in Baden-Württemberg (Messingen in the local dialect), which is recorded as Masginga in 789, probably from the personal name Masco + ingen, suffix of relationship.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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