The sister of Laura Grubb, Lavender married into the Boffin family when she married Otto Boffin, also known as Otto the Fat. She had four children: three sons Hugo, Uffo and Rollo, and one daughter, Primrose. Through Hugo's line, Lavender was the great-great-grandmother of both Fredegar Bolger and Folco Boffin, while through her daughter Primrose she became an ancestor of the Sackville-Bagginses.
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We have no dates for Lavender Grubb, so the approximate dates shown here are those for her husband, Otto Boffin the Fat. The two must have been close contemporaries, but it is unlikely that Lavender's dates of birth and death would have been precisely the same as those of her husband.
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It was common for the Shire-folk to choose the names of flowers for their girl-children, and Lavender is one of numerous such examples. The English name 'lavender' comes from Old French lavendre, with the name ultimately deriving from a word for 'wash' (because the sweet-smelling scent of the lavender was at one time used as a perfume in the washing of clothes).
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