Nanny Ellis was born in 1835, in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. She had at least 3 sons and 2 daughters with John Leggo. She died in 1908, in Long Gully, Victoria, Australia, at the age of 73.
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the city was founded
George Grey explores Western Australia.
End of transportation to Western Australia.
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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