When Mercy Lamb was born in 1827, in Middletown Springs, Rutland, Vermont, United States, her father, Ormond Lamb, was 25 and her mother, Hannah Thomas, was 30. She married Thomas C Clemons on 29 March 1846, in Wells, Rutland, Vermont, United States. She died on 17 March 1872, in Wells, Rutland, Vermont, United States, at the age of 45, and was buried in East Wells, Wells, Rutland, Vermont, United States.
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.".
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