When Eliza Billington was born on 16 December 1825, in Audlem, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Joseph Billington, was 21 and her mother, Martha Brown, was 25. She married John Welch on 18 May 1845, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 9 daughters. She lived in Nodaway, Andrew, Missouri, United States in 1850 and Centerville, Davis, Utah, United States in 1860. She died on 16 August 1907, in Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Brigham City Cemetery, Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, Illinois, United States
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On October 9, 1848, an arsonists fire claimed everything but the outer walls of the Nauvoo Temple since the structure was made out of limestone and wood. It was meant to discourage the Saints that had fled to never come back.
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Billington, in Lancashire, Staffordshire, and Bedfordshire. The first of these is first recorded in 1196 as Billingduna ‘sword-shaped hill’ (see Bill 2); the second is in Domesday Book as Belintone ‘settlement (Old English tūn) of Billa’; the one in Bedfordshire is recorded in 1196 as Billendon, from an Old English personal name Billa + dūn ‘hill’. The place in Lancashire is the most likely source of the surname.
History: John Billington (1580–1630), from Spalding, Lincolnshire, was a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620 and an early settler in Plymouth Colony. Governor Bradford called him ‘the profanest’ of the settlers; eventually he was hanged for murder. His son Francis married and had children.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesTranscribed from the Hatch book by Marjorie Eddy and Kathleen Savage Judd. From “A History of Ann Welch Crookston” by Mary Ann Crookston Farmer, “Welch Family History” by Eleanor Welch Schow, and “E …
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