Brief Life History of Eliphalet
When Eliphalet Steele was born on 23 June 1700, in Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Samuel Steele, was 48 and his mother, Mercy Bradford, was 39. He married Catherine Marshfield on 4 October 1722, in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He died in July 1773, in West Division Parish, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 73, and was buried in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
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- Eliphalet Steel, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Eliphalet Steele, "Find A Grave Index"
- Samuel Steele 1652, 'MyHeritage Family Trees'
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Name Meaning
English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English stel(e) ‘steel’, perhaps used for someone considered as hard and durable as steel, or for a foundry worker.
English: variant of Stile .
Scottish: habitational name from one or more of the places called Steel(e) or Steill in Ayrshire, Berwickshire, and Dumfriesshire, from Scots steel ‘steep bank, spur of a ridge’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Eliphalet Steele ( in line of Samuel, John Jr. John Sr. Founder of Cambridge Mass. And that of Mercy, Maj.William, Gov. William Bradford of Plymouth, Mass.) The Steel and the Bradford name derived fro …
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