Brief Life History of Doris
When Doris Ellis was born in 1921, in Easington, Durham, England, United Kingdom, her father, John William Ellis, was 43 and her mother, Hannah Burdess Mordue, was 37. She died in February 2005, in Sunderland, Durham, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 84.
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Family Time Line
Sources (1)
- Doris Ellis, "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008"
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World Events (8)
1921 · British Unemployment Reaches Post-War High
British unemployment reached a post-war high in July 1921 of 2.5 million people.
1924
First UK government led by the Labor party under Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.
1945
The UK becomes a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Elis, an Old French vernacular form of Elias, the Latin and New Testament Greek form of Hebrew Eliyahu; see Elijah and compare Elias , Lias , Ely .
English: possibly in some instances from the Middle English female personal name Elice, a pet form of Elizabeth .
Welsh: from Elis, a shortened form of the Welsh personal name Elisse (earlier Elisedd, a derivative of elus ‘kindly, benevolent’). As usual in Welsh, the stress in Elisse is on the penultimate syllable -li-, which shifts to initial El- when the name is shortened to Elis. It later became confused with Ellis in 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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