Elizabeth D. Lamb

Brief Life History of Elizabeth D.

When Elizabeth D. Lamb was born on 3 September 1849, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, her father, Benjamin Rush Lamb, was 28 and her mother, Elizabeth L Dubois, was 26. She died on 5 November 1851, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 2, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Benjamin Rush Lamb
1821–1849
Elizabeth L Dubois
1823–1911
John Isaac Lamb
1843–1900
Robert Pearson Lamb
1845–1846
Benjamin Rush Lamb
1847–1852
Elizabeth D. Lamb
1849–1851

Sources (11)

  • Elizabeth Lamb in household of Elizabeth Lamb, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Elizabeth Lamb - Government record: Cemetery record or headstone: birth: 3 September 1849; Iowa, United States
  • Elizth D 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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