When Hebei Kelsey was born on 30 January 1758, in Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, her father, Silas Kelsey, was 24 and her mother, Lydia Wellman, was 24. She died in 1767, in her hometown, at the age of 9.
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English: habitational name from North or South Kelsey in Lincolnshire, so named from an uncertain initial element (perhaps an Old English personal name with genitive -es) + Old English ēg ‘island’.
Possibly also an Americanized form of German Gelzer.
History: William Kelsey was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, in 1635 (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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