When Mehitabel P Steele was born on 8 May 1770, in Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Elisha Steele Esq, was 41 and her mother, Sarah Wolcott, was 34. She died on 21 August 1772, in Tolland, Tolland, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 2.
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English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English stel(e) ‘steel’, perhaps used for someone considered as hard and durable as steel, or for a foundry worker.
English: variant of Stile .
Scottish: habitational name from one or more of the places called Steel(e) or Steill in Ayrshire, Berwickshire, and Dumfriesshire, from Scots steel ‘steep bank, spur of a ridge’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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