When Ebenezer Bradford Steele was born on 13 August 1695, in Killingworth, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, John Steele, was 35 and his mother, Melatiah Bradford, was 30. He married Susanna Merrill on 23 February 1723, in Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He died before 3 March 1747, in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.
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English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English stel(e) ‘steel’, perhaps used for someone considered as hard and durable as steel, or for a foundry worker.
English: variant of Stile .
Scottish: habitational name from one or more of the places called Steel(e) or Steill in Ayrshire, Berwickshire, and Dumfriesshire, from Scots steel ‘steep bank, spur of a ridge’.
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