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Ellams and its origins

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Re: Ellams connections

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 1:38PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi everyone,

My link to the Ellams family is a bit further back than many of you: one of my maternal great x 3 grandmas, Ellen Ellams, was born to William and Mary Ellams in 1817/1819 in Helsby. So, having established my creds:

Really my message is about the origins of Ellams - there are German Ellams' too, so one guess would be that orginally this name entered England (and Scotland) via the Germanic invasions... (Ellams may well have "gone up" to Scotland when southern Scotland formed part of the pre-Conquest Northumbrian kingdom, and the northern British, who peopled the region [and still do] spoke a blend of Anglo-Saxon-Scandanavian.)
Does this all muddy the waters more....
bye for now, Anne
SubjectAuthorDate Posted
Barbara Ellams 25 Apr 2002 6:26PM GMT 
russell_s_eat... 18 Feb 2003 1:20PM GMT 
Barbara Ellams 18 Feb 2003 11:11PM GMT 
Jill 15 Mar 2005 9:51PM GMT 
Russell Eaton 16 Mar 2005 8:08AM GMT 
Jill 16 Mar 2005 12:20PM GMT 
Russell Eaton 16 Mar 2005 12:34PM GMT 
Jill 16 Mar 2005 4:20PM GMT 
wilding143 11 Jan 2008 8:46PM GMT 
Thridings 13 Jun 2009 7:38PM GMT 
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