When Eliah Close Vallis was born on 10 August 1882, in Queensland, Australia, his father, Robert Eliah Vallis, was 24 and his mother, Mary Ann Welch, was 23. He died in 1963, at the age of 81.
Some characteristic forenames: Greek Dimitrios, Savvas, Spiro.
Greek: status name from Greek valis ‘prefect’, Turkish vali ‘governor’.
English: of Norman origin, a habitational name from the old province of Valois in the Ile‐de‐France, named with a derivative of Old French val ‘valley’.
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