When Mildred Ellis was born in 1907, in Queens, New York, United States, her father, Leo Lawrence Kilduff, was 47 and her mother, Esther Kilduff, was 43. She died in 1978, in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 71.
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1860–1932 Male
1864–1950 Female
1907–1978 Female
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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