When Harvey Ray DeLong was born on 9 May 1900, his father, Aaron DeLong, was 32 and his mother, Gertrude Frances Ketch, was 29. He married Gertrude Taylor on 14 January 1920, in Wakefield, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada in 1911. He died on 16 November 1976, in Waterville, Burton, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada, at the age of 76, and was buried in Lower Waterville, Wakefield, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada.
French: habitational name, with fused preposition de ‘from’, denoting someone from a place called Long, of which there are examples in Cher, Dordogne, and Somme.
Americanized form of Dutch and Flemish De Lange 1 and of its Flemish cognate De Langhe, which is also found in France (Nord and Pas-de-Calais).
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