When Emma R Warren Merillat was born in 1924, her father, Lewis Almon Warren, was 30 and her mother, Ruth Almina Brand, was 25. She married Donald John Merillat on 2 April 1941, in Fulton, Ohio, United States. She lived in Rural, Waupaca, Wisconsin, United States in 1935 and Morenci, Lenawee, Michigan, United States in 1940. She died in 1986, in Lime Creek, Medina Township, Lenawee, Michigan, United States, at the age of 62.
English (of Norman origin): from the Middle English (Old French) personal name Warin, Werin, a borrowing of ancient Germanic Warino, a short form of various compound names based on the element warin ‘protection, shelter’ or ‘guard’. Compare Waring .
English and Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name from La Varrenne in Seine-Maritime, France, named with a Gaulish element probably descriptive of alluvial land or sandy soil. This was the name of a major Norman family after the Conquest. In Ireland, this name has been Gaelicized as Bharain.
Irish: adopted as an English form of Gaelic Ó Murnáin (see Murnane , Warner ).
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