When Nellie Moore Crane was born on 31 January 1874, in Erving, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Walter D. Crane, was 28 and her mother, Ellen E. Moore, was 23. She married Harry Clinton Gates on 26 December 1894, in Northfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Northfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States in 1880 and Orange, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States for about 50 years. She died on 23 February 1953, at the age of 79, and was buried in South Cemetery, Heath, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States.
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English: nickname, most likely for a tall, thin man with long legs, from Middle English cran ‘crane’ (the bird), Old English cran, cron. The term included the heron until the introduction of a separate word for the latter in the 14th century.
Manx: see Craine .
Dutch: variant of Krane ‘crane’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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