When John Kelsey was born about 1661, in Windsor, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Mark Kelsey, was 29 and his mother, Rebecca Hoskins, was 28. He died on 18 June 1685, in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 25.
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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.
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