Brief Life History of Agnes
Agnes Eccles was christened on 7 December 1666, in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom as the daughter of Mungo Eccles and Elizabeth Godskirk.
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- Agnes Eccles, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
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Name Meaning
English (Lancashire): habitational name from Eccles in Lancashire, or possibly from any of several other places so named in Kent, Norfolk, Berwickshire, and Dumfriesshire, from British eglēs ‘Romano-British Christian church’ (from Latin ecclesia, Greek ekklēsia ‘gathering, assembly’). Such places would have been the sites of notable pre-Anglo-Saxon churches or Christian places of communal worship.
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