When Ephraim Shelley was born on 16 March 1822, in Warrington Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Daniel J. Shelly, was 31 and his mother, Magdalena Bower, was 28. He married Harriet Spangler on 18 May 1848, in Warrington Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in South Middleton Township, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850. He died on 7 December 1894, in Carlisle, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Boiling Springs, South Middleton Township, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States.
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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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