When Curtis Tempest Ellsworth was born on 10 January 1917, in Payson, Utah, Utah, United States, his father, Lewis Norman Ellsworth, was 37 and his mother, Mary Tempest, was 34. He married Edythe Valborg Johnson on 19 June 1940, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Utah, Utah, United States in 1920 and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1930. He died on 5 November 1988, in Kane, Utah, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Larkin Sunset Gardens Cemetery, Sandy, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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English (Yorkshire): habitational name from Elsworth, a lost place in Norwood near Fewston (Yorkshire), from the Old English personal name El(l)i (see Ellington ) + Old English worth ‘enclosure’ (see Worth ).
English: habitational name from Elworth in Abbotsbury (Dorset) with instrusive -s-, from the Old English personal name Ella + Old English worth.
English: rare variant of Elsworthy, a habitational name from Elworthy (Somerset), with the same origin as the placename in 2 above (with Old English worth later replaced by worthig) ‘enclosure’.
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