When Mary Polly Lamb was born on 28 January 1789, in Marlboro, Windham, Vermont, United States, her father, Joel Jacob Lamb, was 21 and her mother, Lucy " Dolly" Corse, was 22. She married Russel Whitney on 11 April 1814, in Marlboro, Windham, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 30 December 1842, at the age of 53.
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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.".
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