When Carrie D. Lane was born about 1869, in Brodhead, Green, Wisconsin, United States, her father, Charles G Lane, was 32 and her mother, Mary Ann Searles, was 26. She lived in Fayette, Fayette, Iowa, United States in 1880.
English: topographic name for someone who lived in a lane, from Middle English, Old English lane, originally a narrow way between fences or hedges, later used to denote any narrow pathway, including one between houses in a town.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Laighin ‘descendant of Laighean’, a byname meaning ‘spear or javelin’.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luain ‘descendant of Luan’, a byname meaning ‘warrior’, formerly Anglicized as O'Loan. See also Lamb .
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