When Catharine Lamb was born on 5 February 1856, in Lee, Iowa, United States, her father, Wallace Lamb, was 25 and her mother, MARY ANN BALL, was 19. She married James Douglas Cook on 25 November 1872. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Delta, Shasta, California, United States in 1910 and Round Mountain, Shasta, California, United States in 1920. She died on 16 November 1924, in Manteca, San Joaquin, California, United States, at the age of 68.
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English: from the Middle English personal name Lamb, a pet form of Lambert .
English: nickname for a meek and inoffensive person, from Middle English lamb, or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of lambs. See also Lamm .
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luain ‘descendant of the warrior’, formerly Anglicized as O'Loan (see Lane 3). MacLysaght comments: "The form Lamb(e), which results from a more than usually absurd pseudo-translation (uan ‘lamb’), is now much more numerous than O'Loan itself.".
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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