When Ambrose R. Mitchell was born about 1914, in Pennsylvania, United States, his father, James Edward Mitchell, was 41 and his mother, Tillie Ann Buskirk, was 31. He lived in Elk, Pennsylvania, United States in 1920 and Force, Jay Township, Elk, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940. He died in May 1985, in Penfield, Huston Township, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 72.
English and Scottish: from the vernacular pronunciation in Middle English and Older Scots of the personal name Michael . See Michelson .
English and Scottish: nickname for a big man, from Middle English michel, mechel, muchel ‘big’.
Irish (County Connacht): surname adopted as equivalent of Mulvihill .
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