When Robert Patten Gandy was born on 8 December 1914, in Assumption, Christian, Illinois, United States, his father, Frank Marion Gandy, was 34 and his mother, Eula Lee Patten, was 34. He died on 30 May 1979, in Assumption, Christian, Illinois, United States, at the age of 64.
English:
possibly a nickname from Old French gandie ‘pretence, trick, trickery’.
alternatively, perhaps from a shortened form of the Old French personal name Gandin, a pet form of ancient Germanic names beginning with Wand- ‘turn, wind’ or more likely Gand- (of uncertain etymology). In Cheshire, Middle English variation between Gond- and Gand- is probably due to dialect rounding of original -a- before -n(d)-. In south England, however, the variation is difficult to explain (see 3 below).
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