Brief Life History of William Byam
When William Byam Eliot was born in 1770, in Saint Philip, Antigua and Barbuda, his father, Samuel Eliot, was 26 and his mother, Alice Byam, was 24.
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English and Scottish: variant of Elliott .
History: Andrew Eliot, a shoemaker of East Coker, Somerset, England, who emigrated to Boston, MA, in 1670, was the founder of a distinguished American family which included the poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965), who was born in St. Louis, MO. The earliest Eliot recorded in North America was John Eliot (1604–90), a Puritan missionary known as the ‘Indian Apostle’, who was born in Hertfordshire and sailed to Boston in 1631. He later settled in Roxbury, MA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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