Elizabeth Shelley

Femaleabout 1810–

Brief Life History of Elizabeth

When Elizabeth Shelley was born about 1810, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Isaac Shelley, was 27 and her mother, Magdalena Meyer, was 24.

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Isaac Shelley
1784–1839
Magdalena Meyer
1788–1826
Elizabeth Shelley
1810–
Isaac Shelley
1810–
Jacob Shelley
1810–
Samuel Shelley
1810–
Nancy Ann Shelley
1825–1880

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    World Events (3)

    1812

    Age 2

    War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.

    1812 · War of 1812

    Age 2

    Because of the outbreak of war from Napoleonic France, Britain decided to blockade the trade between the United States and the French. The US then fought this action and said it was illegal under international law. Britain supplied Native Americans who raided settlers living on the frontier and halting expansion westward. In 1814, one of the British raids stormed into Washington D.C. burning down the capital. Neither the Americans or the British wanted to continue fighting, so negotiations of peace began. After Treaty of Ghent was signed, Unaware of the treaty, British forces invaded Louisiana but were defeated in January 1815.

    1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital

    Age 2

    Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution. 

    Name Meaning

    English: habitational name from any of the three places called Shelley (Essex, Suffolk, Yorkshire) or from Shelley Plain in Crawley (Sussex). The placenames all derive from Old English scelf ‘rock, ledge, shelf’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.

    Irish (Laois): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Sealbhaigh ‘descendant of Sealbhach’, a byname from the adjective sealbhach ‘having possessions, wealthy’.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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