When John W. Lamb was born in 1802, in Guilford, North Carolina, United States, his father, Dr. Simeon Lamb Jr., was 43 and his mother, Mary Polly Reynolds, was 43. He married Mary "Polly" Wilson on 5 April 1824, in Livingston, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 24 March 1848, in Crittenden, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Lamb Cemetery, Marion, Crittenden, Kentucky, 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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