When Edward Gaines was born in 1759, in Culpeper, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, Captain James Gaines Jr, was 26 and his mother, Mildred Bland Pollard, was 23. He died after 1788.
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English (of Norman origin): variant of Gain , with post-medieval excrescent -s. In North America, this surname has also assimilated several surnames of Welsh origin, such as Gainous , derived from Gurganus .
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