When Sarah Elizabeth Lamb was born in 1826, in London, England, United Kingdom, her father, Henry Lamb, was 22 and her mother, Sarah Cooke, was 23. She married Alfred Edward Wild in 1846, in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 23 July 1863, in Auckland, New Zealand, at the age of 37, and was buried in Symonds Street Cemetery, Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
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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