Brief Life History of Large
When Large was born in 1877, in Denver, Colorado, United States, his father, Thomas Large Sr., was 38 and his mother, Lydia Workman, was 35. He died before 9 June 1880, in his hometown.
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Name Meaning
English and French: nickname (literal or ironic) Middle English, Old French large meaning ‘generous, lavish; ample, big, broad’. The English word came to acquire its modern sense only gradually during the Middle Ages; it is used to mean ‘ample in quantity’ in the 13th century, and the sense ‘broad’ first occurs in the 14th. This use is probably too late for the surname to have originated as a nickname for a fat man.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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