When Jackson A Kelsey was born about 1816, in Florida, Montgomery, New York, United States, his father, Nathaniel Kelsey, was 27 and his mother, Catherine Pettingell, was 23. He died before about 1829, at the age of 13.
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1790–1886 Male
1795– Female
1814–1898 Female
1816–1829 Male
1816–1876 Male
1818– Male
1819–1882 Female
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English: habitational name from North or South Kelsey in Lincolnshire, so named from an uncertain initial element (perhaps an Old English personal name with genitive -es) + Old English ēg ‘island’.
Possibly also an Americanized form of German Gelzer.
History: William Kelsey was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, in 1635 (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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