When Sabra Almeda Lake was born on 17 July 1824, in Ernestown Township, Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Canada, her father, James Madison Lake Jr., was 35 and her mother, Philomela Smith, was 30. She married William Wilkinson Dixon on 16 August 1842, in Merritt, Scott, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Harrisville, Weber, Utah, United States in 1880 and Farr West, Weber, Utah, United States in 1900. She died on 2 July 1908, in Rigby, Jefferson, Idaho, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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English (mainly West Country): topographic name usually for someone who lived by a streamlet (Middle English lak(e), Old English lacu) or who lived at or came from any of the places so named, such as Lack in Church Stoke (Shropshire) and Lake in Wilsford near Amesbury (Wiltshire). Lake is a common minor placename in Devon.
English: occasionally perhaps a topographic name for someone who lived by a lake or pool (Middle English, Old French lake), though it is uncertain that this word was current in ordinary vocabulary during the main period of surname formation (1250–1400).
North German and Dutch: habitational name from any of several places in Westphalia and Lower Saxony so named, or a topographic name from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch lake ‘swamp, swampy meadow’ (Middle Dutch also ‘border water’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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