When Henry Frederick Larder was born on 3 November 1896, in Los Gatos, Santa Clara, California, United States, his father, Fred Larder, was 30 and his mother, Lena C Wahmuth, was 24. He lived in Monterey Judicial Township, Monterey, California, United States in 1940 and Monterey, Monterey, California, United States in 1950. He died on 28 October 1985, in Alameda, California, United States, at the age of 88.
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English (mainly Lincolnshire): occupational name from a simplified form of Middle English larderer, a derivative of Old French lardier, originally ‘tub to keep bacon in’, later, ‘room in which to keep bacon and other meat’. Compare Lardner .
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