When Eleanor Lewellen Briscoe was born on 1 April 1786, in Nelson, Kentucky, United States, her father, Parmenas Briscoe, was 36 and her mother, Nancy Anna "Ann" Briscoe, was 26. She married Absalom Froman on 15 April 1806, in Nelson, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 5 November 1847, in Bullitt, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Bullitt, Kentucky, United States.
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English (northern): habitational name from any of various places so named, including Briscoe in Hutton Mulgrave and Briscoe in Romaldkirk (both North Yorkshire), Brisco Rigg in Stainburn (Yorkshire), or Brisco in Saint Cuthbert Without and Briscoe in Saint John Beckermet (both Cumberland). Briscoe in Saint John Beckermet is named with Old Norse Bretaskógr ‘wood of the Britons’ (see Brett ). Brisco in Cumberland and Briscoe in North Yorkshire are named with Old Norse birki ‘birch’ + skógr ‘wood’.
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