When Halleck Gold was born on 25 July 1863, in Calaveras, California, United States, his father, Francis Edward Gold, was 35 and his mother, Mary Holland, was 36. He married Lulu May Babcock on 2 February 1890, in North Branch, Calaveras, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Mokelumne Hill Judicial Township, Calaveras, California, United States in 1910 and Mokelumne Hill, Calaveras, California, United States in 1920. He died on 2 February 1921, at the age of 57, and was buried in Mokelumne Hill, Calaveras, California, United States.
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Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Gold, Yiddish gold ‘gold’. In North America it is often a shortened form of one of the many compound artificial names of which Gold is the first element.
English and German: from Middle English go(u)ld, or Old English and Old High German gold ‘gold’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in gold, i.e. a refiner, jeweler, or gilder, or as a nickname for someone who either had many gold possessions or bright yellow hair.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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