When Elleanor Story was born on 27 February 1789, in St Ives, Huntingdonshire, England, her father, Thomas Storey, was 28 and her mother, Elizabeth Leeks, was 22. She married Thomas Morris on 28 June 1812, in Woodford, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Kirkby Underwood, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841. She died on 5 August 1856, in Kirby Underwood, Lincolnshire, England, at the age of 67, and was buried in Kirkby Underwood, Lincolnshire, England.
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Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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