When Ronald Henry Blackburn Raines was born on 23 January 1893, in Kansas, United States, his father, James L. Raines, was 40 and his mother, Frances Elizabeth Carson, was 34. He lived in Jefferson, Montgomery, Kansas, United States in 1895 and Perry, Jefferson, Kansas, United States for about 10 years. He died on 19 August 1910, in Jefferson, Kansas, United States, at the age of 17, and was buried in Perry, Jefferson, Kansas, United States.
English: variant of Raine , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: habitational name from Rayne (Essex), recorded in the Domesday Book as Raines in the 11th century. The etymology of the placename is uncertain, but it may derive from Old English hrægene ‘hut, shelter’ or from a pre-English river name for Pods Brook (a river on which Rayne lies), cognate with the German river name Regen (a tributary of the Danube), formed from the Indo-European root reg- ‘wet, moisten, water’.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Rennes in Brittany, France.
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