When Dan Lane was born on 11 March 1739, in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, his father, Enos Lane, was 23 and his mother, Elizabeth Harmon, was 21. He died on 29 December 1747, in Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 8.
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English: topographic name for someone who lived in a lane, from Middle English, Old English lane, originally a narrow way between fences or hedges, later used to denote any narrow pathway, including one between houses in a town.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Laighin ‘descendant of Laighean’, a byname meaning ‘spear or javelin’.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luain ‘descendant of Luan’, a byname meaning ‘warrior’, formerly Anglicized as O'Loan. See also Lamb .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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