When Kenneth James Easter was born on 1 August 1917, in Brockville, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, his father, Howard Edwin Easter, was 25 and his mother, Mary Kathleen Ranger, was 18. He died on 15 October 1918, in his hometown, at the age of 1, and was buried in Saint Francis Xavier Cemetery, Brockville, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada.
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English: from Middle English estre ‘sheepfold’ (Old English ēowestre). The surname may be topographic, denoting someone who lived by or worked at a sheepfold, or habitational, from Good or High Easter (Essex), named from this word.
English: from the Middle English word ester ‘easter’ (Old English Ēastre), used as a personal name for someone who had some connection with the festival of Easter, such as being born or baptized at that time. Compare Pascall .
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Oster .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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