Brief Life History of Robert Merrill
When Robert Merrill Lamb was born on 12 May 1906, in Amboy, Jackson Township, Miami, Indiana, United States, his father, Simeon Harvey Lamb, was 34 and his mother, Louisa “Fern” Heston, was 25. He married Beulah Velura King on 8 January 1933, in Amboy, Jackson Township, Miami, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Crown Point, Center Township, Lake, Indiana, United States in 1940 and Riverside, Riverside, California, United States for about 1 years. He died on 25 October 1965, in Gilead, Perry Township, Miami, Indiana, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Gilead, Perry Township, Miami, Indiana, United States.
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- Robert M Lamb, "United States 1950 Census"
- Robert M Lamb, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Robert Lamb, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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Name Meaning
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.".
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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