When Adney or Adna Legg was born on 18 December 1833, in Norway, Norway, Herkimer, New York, United States, his father, Asa Legg, was 41 and his mother, Mary Bly, was 23. He died on 2 March 1867, at the age of 33.
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English (mainly West Country): nickname for someone with some peculiarity of the leg, from Middle English legg ‘leg’ (Old Norse leggr).
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