Brief Life History of Benjamin Rush
When Benjamin Rush Lamb was born on 10 February 1847, in Iowa, United States, his father, Benjamin Rush Lamb, was 25 and his mother, Elizabeth L Dubois, was 23. He died on 16 January 1852, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 4, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Benjamin R Lamb in household of Elizabeth Lamb, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: Benjamin Rush Lamb - Government record: Census record: birth: 10 February 1847; Iowa, United States
- Lamb, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
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1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States* 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States *Renamed Salt Lake in 1868
Name Meaning
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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