When Thomas Ellis was born on 13 April 1822, in Warrington, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Joseph Ellis, was 28 and his mother, Anne Tickle, was 33. He died on 19 January 1823, in Warrington, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 0.
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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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