|Author:||Cleveland Kent Evans (Authenticated as clevelandkentevans)|
|Date:||June 13, 2008 at 3:28:25 PM|
|Reply to:||Ellesmere??? by walterkelly724|
This is an English surname and place name. The place in England is in Shropshire, and according to A Dictionary of English Place-names by A. D. Mills is goes back to Old English words that meant "Lake or pool of a man called Elli."
Ellesmere is probably best known today, though, because it's the name of a large island in the Canadian Arctic:
I haven't run across Ellesmere yet as a given name, but it wouldn't surprise me for either gender.
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