When Daniel Drake was born on 14 June 1789, in Brookline, Windham, Vermont, United States, his father, Seth Drake, was 30 and his mother, Chloe Prentice, was 23. He married Patience Perkins on 2 December 1813, in Norwich, Windsor, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Hartford Township, Trumbull, Ohio, United States in 1824 and Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. He registered for military service in 1812. He died on 22 December 1851, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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English: nickname from Middle English drake, either ‘drake, male duck’ (compare Duck ) or ‘dragon’ (Old English draca ‘snake, dragon’ or the cognate Old Norse draki), including an emblematic dragon on a flag (compare Dragon ). Both the Old English and the Old Norse forms are from Latin draco ‘snake, monster’; its sense as a nickname is unclear but it may have had the sense ‘standard bearer’. The name was taken to Ireland in the 13th century and reinforced by later English settlers in the 17th century.
German: from Low German drake ‘dragon’, familiar as image on signboards, hence a topographic or habitational name referring to a house or inn with such signboard.
Dutch: variant, mostly Americanized and Flemish, of Draak, a cognate of 2 above, from draak (Middle Dutch drake) ‘dragon’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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