Brief Life History of Ellis
When Ellis Barron III was born on 22 September 1655, in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Ellis Barron Jr, was 22 and his mother, Hannah Hawkins, was 18. He married Mary Sherman on 27 May 1679, in Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He died in October 1711, in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 56.
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- Family Data Collection - Births
- U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
- Elliz Barron, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Jesus, Manuel, Francisco, Carlos, Miguel, Raul, Pedro, Ruben, Alfredo, Luis.
Scottish: status name from Scots baron, which in the Highlands denoted a small proprietary landholder. In Angus it alluded specifically to a tenant of one of the small baronies attached to the Abbey of Coupar Angus. The surname was taken by Scottish migrants to Ulster. Compare Baron .
Scottish: shortened form of McBarron, from Scottish Gaelic Mac a' Bharain ‘son of the baron’. See Baron and 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Sharon's Notes
THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST - The Ellis Barron Family, p 138 ELLIS BARRON lived at Groton, Mass., after marriage to Mary Sherman. The loss of birth records, and the lack of probate for Ellis Barron, have …
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