When Elephalet Marsh was born about 1755, in Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America, his father, Moses Marsh, was 28 and his mother, Phoebe Ludlow, was 11. He married Nancy Ludlum on 27 November 1771, in Westfield, Union, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He died on 26 June 1782, at the age of 28.
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English: topographic name for someone who lived by or in a marsh or fen, Middle English mersch (Old English mersc), or a habitational name from any of various minor places called with this word, for example in Yorkshire, Shropshire and Buckinghamshire.
Americanized form of German Marsch .
Americanized form of Slovenian Marš: unexplained. Compare Mars 7.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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