When Elisha Leffingwell was born in 1788, in Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States, his father, Elisha Leffingwell, was 39 and his mother, Elisabeth "Betsey" Barney, was 33. He married Louisa Clark on 31 May 1815, in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Norwich, Huntington, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States in 1820. He died on 2 January 1857, in Huntington, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Huntington, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States.
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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.
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