When Milliard F Lake was born on 30 September 1861, in Illinois, United States, his father, Wallace C. Lake, was 28 and his mother, Sarah Prudence Mills, was 20. He lived in Indiana, United States in 1870 and Helt Township, Vermillion, Indiana, United States in 1880. He died on 6 June 1905, at the age of 43, and was buried in Highland Township, Vermillion, Indiana, United States.
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English (mainly West Country): topographic name usually for someone who lived by a streamlet (Middle English lak(e), Old English lacu) or who lived at or came from any of the places so named, such as Lack in Church Stoke (Shropshire) and Lake in Wilsford near Amesbury (Wiltshire). Lake is a common minor placename in Devon.
English: occasionally perhaps a topographic name for someone who lived by a lake or pool (Middle English, Old French lake), though it is uncertain that this word was current in ordinary vocabulary during the main period of surname formation (1250–1400).
North German and Dutch: habitational name from any of several places in Westphalia and Lower Saxony so named, or a topographic name from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch lake ‘swamp, swampy meadow’ (Middle Dutch also ‘border water’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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