Brief Life History of Adelia
When Adelia Whaley was born in October 1893, in Missouri, United States, her father, Newton Bayless Whaley, was 27 and her mother, Mary Adelia Aubuchon, was 22. She married Charles Marion Russell about 1919. She lived in St. Louis, Missouri, United States for about 10 years and St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States in 1950. She died on 28 December 1971, at the age of 78, and was buried in Jennings, St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
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- Adelia M Russell, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Delia Whaley - Government record: Census record: birth: October 1893; Missouri, United States
- Adelia Whaley, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
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Name Meaning
English (northern): habitational name from Whalley (Lancashire) or Whaley in Bolsover (Derbyshire). The Lancashire placename may derive from Old English hwæl ‘hill’ + lēah ‘wood, woodland clearing’. The Derbyshire placename may derive from Old English wall ‘wall’, walh ‘Welshman, foreigner’ (genitive plural wala), or wælla ‘well, spring, stream’ + lēah.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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