Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Ennis was born on 17 November 1769, her father, Benjamin Ennis Sr, was 26 and her mother, Magdalena Van Etten, was 18. She married Gideon Van Gorden on 15 April 1796, in Sussex, New Jersey, United States. She died on 6 March 1856, at the age of 86, and was buried in Drew Cemetery, Urbana, Steuben, New York, United States.
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- Elisabeth Ennes, "New York, Births and Christenings, 1640-1962"
- Elizabeth Ennis, "New Jersey, County Marriages, 1682-1956"
- Elizabeth Ennes in entry for Magdalena Decker, "New York Births and Christenings, 1640-1962"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
New York is the 11th state.
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
Name Meaning
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Aonghuis ‘son of Angus’, see McGinnis and compare Angus and Hennessy .
English: perhaps a variant of Ince , or Henney with loss of initial H- and the addition of a post-medieval excrescent -s, or a variant of Enos .
Cornish: from any of various places in the western half of Cornwall called Ennis, Enys, Ninnes, etc., from Cornish (an) enys ‘(the) island’. The Saint Gluvias family is certainly from Enys in Saint Gluvias parish.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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