When John B Leffingwell was born in November 1827, in Ashtabula, Ohio, United States, his father, William Leffingwell, was 39 and his mother, Ursula McClure, was 22. He married Lydia Jane Moore in November 1853, in Rock, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Rockton, Winnebago, Illinois, United States in 1850 and Newark, Rock, Wisconsin, United States for about 20 years. He died after 1895, and was buried in Shirland, Winnebago, Illinois, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1846: Winnebago, Illinois, United States
English: habitational name from Leppingwells in Essex, which is recorded as Leffingwelles in 1561 and owed its name to the possessions there of the family of Robert de Leffeldewelle (1302), who is called Leffingwell in an Elizabethan transcript of the Court Rolls.
History: The family, called Leffingwell in the 15th century and Leppingwell in the 16th, took its name from a lost place recorded as Liffildeuuella in 1086 (from the Old English personal name Lēofhild + Old English wella ‘well, spring, stream’), which may survive in a corrupt form in Levit's Corner in Pebmarsh (Essex), into which their possessions extended.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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