When Sims Wilson Ensley was born on 22 October 1859, in Sylva, Jackson, North Carolina, United States, his father, William M Ensley, was 31 and his mother, Lucretia Belle Parris, was 28. He married Margaret Haseltine Queen on 1 October 1882, in Sylva, Jackson, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Hamilton, Skagit, Washington, United States in 1910 and North Carolina, United States in 1938. He died on 4 October 1934, in Sylva, Jackson, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Sylva, Jackson, North Carolina, United States.
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Americanized form of German Ensli or Ensle, pet forms of Anselm or Ernst.
English: possibly a habitational name from Ingestre (Staffordshire). The placename, which clearly gave rise to a medieval surname, shows various irregular developments over the centuries, an intrusive -l- being one of them. The origin of the placename is uncertain, though the initial element may be a derivative of Latin angustiæ ‘the narrows’, which would become engyst under Brittonic influence, and the final element may be from the river Trent. This would be topographically appropriate, as the river Trent becomes narrow near Ingestre.
English: perhaps a variant of Ilsley , with dissimilation of l-l to n-l, or a variant of Hinchley from Hinchcliffe with development of -cliff via -liff to -ley.
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