When William Eccles was born on 6 April 1825, in Old Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, William Eccles, was 51 and his mother, Margaret Miller, was 42. He married Sarah Hutchinson on 16 May 1843, in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1861 and Eden, Weber, Utah, United States in 1880. He died on 4 December 1903, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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EARLIEST RECORDED MARKER: Josiah Nelson BIRTH 1841 Ogden, Weber County, Utah, USA DEATH 1841 (aged less–than 1 year) Ogden, Weber County, Utah, USA BURIAL Ogden City Cemetery Ogden, Weber County, Utah, USA MEMORIAL ID 240526232 · View Source
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English (Lancashire): habitational name from Eccles in Lancashire, or possibly from any of several other places so named in Kent, Norfolk, Berwickshire, and Dumfriesshire, from British eglēs ‘Romano-British Christian church’ (from Latin ecclesia, Greek ekklēsia ‘gathering, assembly’). Such places would have been the sites of notable pre-Anglo-Saxon churches or Christian places of communal worship.
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Possible Related NamesInterview between Royal Eccles [1884-1963, son of David Eccles and Bertha Marie Jensen] [2nd Cousin three times removed from William Hardy Goodman, who is typing this into a readable MS Doc, Septemb …
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