When Lillie F. Lamb was born on 27 October 1857, in Springport, Cayuga, New York, United States, her father, Harrison Lamb, was 39 and her mother, Mary Warrick, was 22. She married John H. Young about 1878, in Springport, Cayuga, New York, United States. She lived in Aurelius, Cayuga, New York, United States in 1875 and Auburn, Cayuga, New York, United States in 1910. She died on 30 January 1938, in Cayuga, New York, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Cayuga, New York, United States.
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English: from the Middle English personal name Lamb, a pet form of Lambert .
English: nickname for a meek and inoffensive person, from Middle English lamb, or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of lambs. See also Lamm .
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luain ‘descendant of the warrior’, formerly Anglicized as O'Loan (see Lane 3). MacLysaght comments: "The form Lamb(e), which results from a more than usually absurd pseudo-translation (uan ‘lamb’), is now much more numerous than O'Loan itself.".
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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