When Mary Ellen Beckstead was born on 21 January 1878, in Williamsburgh Township, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada, her father, Marcus Beckstead, was 44 and her mother, Phoebe Jane Brown, was 43. She married Nelson Lindsay Tousant on 31 August 1898, in Williamsburgh Township, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 3 February 1925, in Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 47, and was buried in Brinston, Matilda Township, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada.
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Americanized form of North German Beckstedde or Beckstedt: topographic name from Low German Beck ‘stream’ + -stedde ‘place’, or a habitational name from Beckstedt near Wildeshausen, Oldenburg.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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