When Sarah Kelsey was born about 1820, in New York, United States, her father, Benedict Kellsy, was 49 and her mother, Sarah Kelsey Burch, was 42. She married Warren Crandall about 1842, in New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Schaghticoke, Rensselaer, New York, United States for about 5 years and Easton, Washington, New York, United States for about 20 years. She died on 31 July 1887, at the age of 68.
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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).
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