When Luther Rice Lamb was born on 28 June 1795, in Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Jonas Lamb, was 40 and his mother, Mehitable Peirce, was 43. He married Sarah Sally Blashfield on 7 September 1817, in Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Maine, United States in 1870 and Manitoba, Canada in 1883. He died on 16 July 1883, in Wakefield, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 88.
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Historical Boundaries: 1799: Kennebec, Massachusetts, United States 1820: Kennebec, Maine, United States
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English: from the Middle English personal name Lamb, a pet form of Lambert .
English: nickname for a meek and inoffensive person, from Middle English lamb, or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of lambs. See also Lamm .
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luain ‘descendant of the warrior’, formerly Anglicized as O'Loan (see Lane 3). MacLysaght comments: "The form Lamb(e), which results from a more than usually absurd pseudo-translation (uan ‘lamb’), is now much more numerous than O'Loan itself.".
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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