When Claude Arland Marchant was born in 1921, his father, Arlo Valentine Marchant, was 33 and his mother, Cora Mabel Lockhart, was 34. He lived in North Battleford No. 437, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1926. He died in 1941, at the age of 20.
English (southern): occupational name from Middle English marchaunt ‘merchant, trader, shopkeeper’ (Old French marchand, marchëant).
Altered form of French Marchand , a cognate of 1 above.
History: John Marchant (c. 1600–c. 1668) was in Newport, RI, before 1638. In that year he moved to Braintree, MA, then to Watertown, MA (1642), and finally to Yarmouth, MA (1648). His descendants included many sea captains and other prominent people.
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