When Elisabeth Nellis was born on 7 September 1771, in New York, United States, her father, Ludwig Nellis, was 42 and her mother, Elisabetha Keyser, was 42. She married Adam Bellinger Kilts on 17 November 1793, in Stone Arabia, Palatine, Montgomery, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 22 March 1838, in her hometown, at the age of 66, and was buried in Snells Bush, Manheim, Herkimer, New York, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1772: Tyron, New York Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Tyron, New York, United States 1784: Montgomery, New York, United States
New York is the 11th state.
Historical Boundaries: 1791: Herkimer, New York, United States
Flemish and German: variant of Nelis .
Irish (Ulster): shortened form of Mac Niallghuis, see McNelis , Nelis .
English (North Yorkshire): of uncertain origin. A derivation from Middle English Nellis, an unrecorded rhyming pet form of Ellis, is not impossible. Alternatively, it might be variant of Neels , though this name is rarely recorded in northern England. The earliest spellings of the name have final -t (Nellist), generally assumed to be excrescent, and not original to the name, but the ubiquity of this feature suggests it may be intrinsic to the true etymology.
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