Brief Life History of Nathan
When Nathan Kelsey was born about 1654, in Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Mark Kelsey, was 22 and his mother, Rebecca Hoskins, was 21. He married Thankful Elwell from January 1749 to December 1749, in Killingworth, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died about 1762, in his hometown, at the age of 110, and was buried in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.
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Name Meaning
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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