When Gilbert Granger was born on 14 October 1814, in Phelps, Ontario, New York, United States, his father, Oliver Granger, was 20 and his mother, Lydia Dibble, was 24. He married Alice Marble on 20 June 1838, in Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 25 August 1850, in American Judicial Township, Sacramento, California, United States, at the age of 35.
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The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
English (of Norman origin): occupational name for a farm bailiff, responsible for overseeing the collection of rent in kind into the barns and storehouses of the lord of the manor. This official had the Anglo-Norman French title grainger, Old French grangier, from Late Latin granicarius, a derivative of granica ‘granary’ (see Grange ).
French: from Old French grangier (see 1 above), an occupational name for an owner of a granary or a status name for a tenant farmer, a sharecropper.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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