When Joseph Ellis III was born in 1744, in Keene, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Joseph Ellis Jr, was 32 and his mother, Lydia Ellis, was 24. He married Bridget Hammond on 4 April 1771, in Keene, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He died on 5 February 1829, in his hometown, at the age of 85, and was buried in Four Corners Cemetery, Sullivan, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States.
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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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