Agnes Eccles

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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Mungo Eccles
1624–1679
Elizabeth Godskirk
Agnes Eccles
1666–
John Ecles
1668–
Margaret Eccles
1670–
James Eccles
1673–
John Eccles
1675–
Elspeth Eccles
1678–

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  • Agnes Eccles, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"

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.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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