Lena Lansing was born about 1697, in New York City, New York, United States.
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Dutch and North German: patronymic from the personal name Lanso, a pet form of ancient Germanic names composed with the element land- ‘land, territory’.
History: This was the most frequent name in New Netherland in the 17th century. Among others, Gerrit Frederickse Lansing and his wife, Elizabeth Hendrix, came to North America with their European-born children during the late 1640s. There is a waterway near Utica, NY, called Lansingkill, named for a family with this surname.
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