When Ellen Prior was christened on 23 December 1849, in Wield, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Prior, was 39 and her mother, Sophia Broad, was 27. She lived in Hampshire, England, United Kingdom in 1851. She died in June 1944, in Alton, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 94.
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English (southern), Scottish, Dutch, and German: ultimately from Latin prior ‘superior’, used to denote a prior, a monastic official immediately subordinate to an abbot, hence a nickname for someone thought to resemble a prior.
Irish: Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Mac an Phríora ‘son of the prior’ (this is the usual origin in counties Cavan and Leitrim). Some examples may be Anglo-Norman, the same name as in 1 above.
Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan: from prior, probably denoting someone in the service of a prior or a nickname for someone who behaved in a pompous way.
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