When Zeruah Lamb was born on 18 August 1850, in Independence Rock, Natrona, Wyoming, United States, her father, Abel Lamb, was 49 and her mother, Almira Merrill, was 43. She died on 21 October 1858, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 8, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, 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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