First name origins & meanings:
- Danish: Garden keeper
- Danish: Garden keeper
First name variations: Gardener, Gardenor, Gardner, Gardnard, Garden, Gard, Gardell, Gardenner, Gardie, Gardnar Last name origins & meanings:
- English: variant spelling of Gardener.
- Lion Gardiner came from England in 1635 to Saybrook, CT, the
settlement of Earl of Warwick patentees at the mouth of the
Connecticut River, and built a fort there. Born in 1636, his son,
David, was the first white child born in the settlement. Lion later
bought the Isle of Wight, now Gardiners Island, from the Indians, and
moved his family there until 1653, when he bought land in what is now
Easthampton, Long Island, NY.
This name appears in the following lists:
First Ladies,
Presidents' Kids
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