When Rebecca Kelsey was born on 2 January 1659, in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Mark Kelsey, was 26 and her mother, Rebecca Hoskins, was 25. She married Nathaniel Messenger I on 5 April 1678, in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters.
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English: habitational name from North or South Kelsey in Lincolnshire, so named from an uncertain initial element (perhaps an Old English personal name with genitive -es) + Old English ēg ‘island’.
Possibly also an Americanized form of German Gelzer.
History: William Kelsey was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, in 1635 (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related Names(1) Genealogy of the Messengers Excerpt from "The History and Genealogy of Ancient Windsor,..." Vol II, by Henry R. Stiles. Messengers: Edward (1), Nathaniel (2), Joseph (3). MESSENGER, Edward, h …
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