Brief Life History of Thomas Witton
When Thomas Witton Ellerbeck was born on 14 September 1829, in Pendleton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas E Ellerbeck, was 37 and his mother, Mary Witton, was 11826. He married Martha Birch Hyder on 19 August 1852, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1851. He died on 2 April 1895, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Thomas W Ellerbeck in entry for Marjorie Ellerback, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Thomas Ellerback in household of Thomas Ellerback, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Thomas Witton Ellerbeck in entry for William W Fleetwood and Aurania Rouverol, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
Spouse and Children
1829–1895 Male
1844–1909 Female
Children (9)
1865–1866 Female
1867–1924 Male
1869–1935 Female
1871–1940 Female
1874–1932 Male
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Parents and Siblings
1791–1848 Male
1791–1835 Female
Siblings (5)
1828–1906 Female
1829–1895 Male
1831–1835 Male
1833–1834 Male
1834–1919 Male
World Events (8)
1830
Age 1
1842 · Mines and Collieries Act of 1842
Age 13
1847
Age 18
Name Meaning
German: habitational name from any of various minor places called as the ‘stream where the alder trees grow’.
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name from Ellerbeck in Ingleton (Yorkshire), Ellerbek (a lost place in West Derby Hundred, Lancashire), or Ellerbeck in Osmotherley (North Yorkshire), all from Old Norse elri ‘alder tree’ + bekkr ‘stream’.
History: Heinrich Ellerbeck was born in 1818 in Holzfelde in Prussia. In 1845 he came to America, joining his uncle August Broemmelsieck on the Brommelsieck farm in Franklin County, MO.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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