Elisha Starr

Brief Life History of Elisha

When Elisha Starr was born on 20 September 1782, in Groton, New London, Connecticut, United States, his father, William Starr, was 37 and his mother, Freelove Bailey, was 35. He married Sarah Holt on 20 November 1803, in New London, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Connecticut, United States in 1782. He died on 1 August 1867, in Groton, New London, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Groton, New London, Connecticut, United States.

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Family Time Line

Elisha Starr
1782–1867
Sarah Holt
1776–1856
Marriage: 20 November 1803
Eliza Elbridge Starr
1804–1805
Mary Holt Starr
1805–1835
William Holt Starr
1808–1884
Charles Holt Starr
1810–1907
Starr
1812–1812
David Holt Starr
1813–1843
Henry Holt Starr
1815–1853
Edwin Holt Starr
1817–1877

Sources (17)

  • Elisha Starr, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Elisha Starr, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
  • Elisha Starr, "Connecticut Marriages, 1640-1939"

World Events (8)

1783 · A Free America

The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.

1788 · Connecticut Becomes the 5th State

Connecticut became a state on January 9, 1788. In 1650, before it was a state, the boundary of Connecticut ran north from the westside of Greenwich Bay and the coast of the Pacific Ocean. During the 1600s, Westmoreland County was in Connecticut when the boundaries were changed Westmoreland County went to Pennsylvania.

1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

Name Meaning

English: from Middle English sterre ‘star’ (Old English steorra), used, like the Old Norse Stjarna, as a nickname, but also occasionally as a personal name. The word was also used in a transferred sense of a patch of white hair on the forehead of a horse, and so perhaps the nickname denoted someone with a streak of white hair. This surname has been established in Ireland since the 17th century.

English: in addition, the name may occasionally also have been topographic or habitational, referring to a house or inn distinguished by the sign of a star (see 2 above). Surnames derived from house and inn signs are rare in English.

Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Star 1 and 3.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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