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I am working with the 1850 census of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, right now, and Ellender is turning up frequently there, too.

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I doubt if it has anything to do with Eluned. It is probably a variation of Eleanor created partly by example from Alexander, and partly because "d" is often "intrusive" in English after "n". For example, the Old English words dwinan and thunor became the Middle English words dwindle and thunder.