Brief Life History of Betsey
When Betsey Ellis was born on 13 October 1804, in Hartford, Oxford, Maine, United States, her father, Peres Ellis, was 38 and her mother, Mary Hathaway, was 31. She married Robert W. Gray on 12 October 1834, in Hartford, Oxford, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She died on 18 March 1896, in Paris, Cumberland, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Paris, Cumberland, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Betsey Gray in household of Robert Gray, "United States Census, 1870"
- Betsey Ellis, "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900"
- Betsey Ellis, "Maine, Marriages, 1771-1907"
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1805
Historical Boundaries: 1805: Oxford, Massachusetts, United States 1820: Oxford, Maine, United States
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Elis, an Old French vernacular form of Elias, the Latin and New Testament Greek form of Hebrew Eliyahu; see Elijah and compare Elias , Lias , Ely .
English: possibly in some instances from the Middle English female personal name Elice, a pet form of Elizabeth .
Welsh: from Elis, a shortened form of the Welsh personal name Elisse (earlier Elisedd, a derivative of elus ‘kindly, benevolent’). As usual in Welsh, the stress in Elisse is on the penultimate syllable -li-, which shifts to initial El- when the name is shortened to Elis. It later became confused with Ellis in 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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