When Olivia Ellis was born on 20 December 1819, in Warrington, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Joseph Ellis, was 26 and her mother, Anne Tickle, was 30. She married James Appleton on 13 May 1840, in Warrington, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Windle, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Eccleston, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1871. She died on 26 October 1876, in St Helens, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 56.
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English: from the Middle English personal name Elis, an Old French vernacular form of Elias, the Latin and New Testament Greek form of Hebrew Eliyahu; see Elijah and compare Elias , Lias , Ely .
English: possibly in some instances from the Middle English female personal name Elice, a pet form of Elizabeth .
Welsh: from Elis, a shortened form of the Welsh personal name Elisse (earlier Elisedd, a derivative of elus ‘kindly, benevolent’). As usual in Welsh, the stress in Elisse is on the penultimate syllable -li-, which shifts to initial El- when the name is shortened to Elis. It later became confused with Ellis in 1 above.
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