When Eliza Ellis was born on 11 April 1844, in Wednesbury, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Joseph Ellis, was 25 and her mother, Martha Harrison, was 24. She married Robert Smith on 5 May 1879, in Wednesbury, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Whittington, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years and Lichfield St Michael, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1891.
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English: from the Middle English personal name Elis, an Old French vernacular form of Elias, the Latin and New Testament Greek form of Hebrew Eliyahu; see Elijah and compare Elias , Lias , Ely .
English: possibly in some instances from the Middle English female personal name Elice, a pet form of Elizabeth .
Welsh: from Elis, a shortened form of the Welsh personal name Elisse (earlier Elisedd, a derivative of elus ‘kindly, benevolent’). As usual in Welsh, the stress in Elisse is on the penultimate syllable -li-, which shifts to initial El- when the name is shortened to Elis. It later became confused with Ellis in 1 above.
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