When Harriet Matilda Kelsey was born on 24 July 1853, in Croydon, Surrey, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Henry Kelsey, was 22 and her mother, Harriet Huggett, was 30. She married James Jordan Davis on 5 May 1873, in Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Springville, Utah, Utah, United States in 1870 and Salem Election Precinct, Utah, Utah, United States in 1940. She died on 7 July 1948, in Salem, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Salem City Cemetery, Salem, Utah, Utah, United States.
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English: habitational name from North or South Kelsey in Lincolnshire, so named from an uncertain initial element (perhaps an Old English personal name with genitive -es) + Old English ēg ‘island’.
Possibly also an Americanized form of German Gelzer.
History: William Kelsey was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, in 1635 (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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