When Daniel Drage was christened on 7 July 1786, in Barkway, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Drage, was 30 and his mother, Mary Waring, was 33. He had at least 1 son and 1 daughter with Mary. He was buried in Barkway, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom.
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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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