When William Addison Packard was born on 27 August 1875, in Georgeville, Stanstead, Stanstead, Quebec, Canada, his father, Hollis Addison Packard, was 28 and his mother, Jane Huse, was 26. He married Lulu Maud Huckins on 6 March 1898, in Georgeville, Stanstead, Stanstead, Quebec, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Stanstead, Canada East, British Colonial America in 1901. He died in 1949, in Stanstead, Quebec, Canada, at the age of 74, and was buried in Fitch Bay, Stanstead, Stanstead, Quebec, Canada.
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English: from Middle English pak(e) ‘pack, bundle’ + the Anglo-Norman French pejorative suffix -ard, probably a derogatory occupational name for a peddler.
English: pejorative derivative of the Middle English personal name Pack .
Probably also an Americanized form of German Packert, Päckert, from ancient Germanic personal names formed with a word meaning ‘battle’ or ‘to fight’; or a variant of Packer 2 (with excrescent -t).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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