Brief Life History of William
When William Leffingwell was born on 31 October 1805, in Montville, New London, Connecticut, United States, his father, Joseph Leffingwell, was 23 and his mother, Sarah Bradford, was 25. He married Eunice Bigelow on 25 March 1830, in New London, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Pilot Hill, El Dorado, California, United States in 1850 and San Luis Obispo, California, United States in 1860. He died on 25 October 1884, in Cambria, San Luis Obispo, California, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Cambria Cemetery, Cambria, San Luis Obispo, California, United States.
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- Wm Leffingnell, "United States Census, 1870"
- William Leffingwell, "Find A Grave Index"
- William Leffingwell in entry for Mrs Emma Jane Foster Leffingwell, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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World Events (8)
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1829 · Farmington Canal Opened
Farmington Canal spans 2,476 acres, starting from New Haven, Connecticut, and on to Northampton, Massachusetts. The groundbreaking for the canal was in 1825 and opened in 1829.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Leppingwells in Essex, which is recorded as Leffingwelles in 1561 and owed its name to the possessions there of the family of Robert de Leffeldewelle (1302), who is called Leffingwell in an Elizabethan transcript of the Court Rolls.
History: The family, called Leffingwell in the 15th century and Leppingwell in the 16th, took its name from a lost place recorded as Liffildeuuella in 1086 (from the Old English personal name Lēofhild + Old English wella ‘well, spring, stream’), which may survive in a corrupt form in Levit's Corner in Pebmarsh (Essex), into which their possessions extended.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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