When Joseph William Drage was born on 15 May 1846, in Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Drage, was 30 and his mother, Lucy Mabbatt, was 23. He married Sarah Agnes Nolan on 24 July 1867, in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in West Ham, Essex, England, United Kingdom in 1881. He died on 19 August 1890, in Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 44.
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English (Northamptonshire): nickname from Middle English drag(g)e, dreg(g)e, drige ‘sweetmeat, comfit; mixture of grains sown together’ (Old French dragie, dragé), hence probably a metonymic occupational name for a farmer or a grain merchant.
German: from an ancient Germanic personal name Trago, or a habitational name from a place called Drage, near Hamburg or in Schleswig-Holstein.
Norwegian: variant of Drag , from the dative case.
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