Ellis family

History of the surname Ellis.

The first recorded spelling of the family name anywhere in the world, is believed to be that of William Elyas, which was dated 1200, in the tax returns for the county of Yorkshire.

Details of the Ellis family with Grewelthorpe connections.
M.I. = Memorial Inscription. Updated Feb 2010.

ALFRED ELLIS. Bap. 28.4.1865 Grewelthorpe. Son of Thomas & Ann. Farmer of Bramley Grewelthorpe.
ANN ELLIS. Born 1804. Buried 17.11.1883.M.I.Grewelthorpe. Sister of Jane Blackburn.
ANN ELLIS. Born C. 1819 Trent Bridge. Wife of Joseph the Tailor from Masham.
ANN ELLIS. Born 1826 Buried 7.9.1865 Grewelthorpe. Lived Bramley.
ANN ELLIS [nee Burton]. Born C. 1836 Grewelthorpe. Dau of Henry Burton.[Shoemaker] & Mary Ascough. Wife of Thomas of Galphay. Married on 22.5.1866 Kirkby Malzeard church.
ANN ELLIS. Born C. 1839 Masham. Dau of Robert & Mary Calvert.
ANNE ELLIS. Born C. 1847 Hutton. Dau of Richard & Sarah.
ANNIE ELLIS. Born C. 1873 Masham. Dau of William [stonemason] & Isabella.
ARTHUR ELLIS. Born C.1882. Died March 1953 age 71. Kirkby Malzeard. Youngest son of John Ellis of Ashfield House, Kirkby Malzeard. Arthur was a farmer.
EDWIN ELLIS. Married Doris Coldbeck. see Coldbeck page. Lived 4 Lake Terrace, Grewelthorpe. See photo at end.
ELIZA ELLIS. Born C1884 Leyburn. Dau of Robert & Mary Calvert.
ELSIE ELLIS nee LEDGER. Born Bawtry. Wife of Robert the station master. Lived Follifoot.
ELSIE G. ELLIS. Born 1886 Leeds.Dau of Robert [station master] & Elsie Ledger.
ELIZABETH ELLIS. Married on 3.4.1798 at Kirkby Malzeard to Simon Barker. a weaver.
ELIZABETH ELLIS. Dau of Robert of Hill Top. Married on 8.12.1838 at Kirkby Malzeard to Thomas Peacock. a brickmaker of Hunslet. Son of William.
ELIZABETH J. ELLIS. Born C. 1850 Leyburn. Dau of Robert & Mary Calvert.
ERNEST ELLIS. Born 18.1.1929. Bap. 10.2.1929. Son of Fred Percy & Selina of Laverton.
ESTHER ELLIS. Born C 1840. Masham. Dau of Robert & Mary Calvert. Wife of GRIFFITHS.
GEORGE WILLIAM ELLIS. Born 1885 Grewelthorpe. Grandson of Matthew & Mary Ann Ellis of Wincobank, Ecclesfield.
HERBERT ELLIS. Born C. 1889 Laverton. Son of Robert & Margaret.
ISABELLA ELLIS. Born C. 1840 Coverdale. Wife of William Ellis [stonemason]
ISABELLA ELLIS. Born C. 1847 Leyburn. Dau of Robert & Mary Calvert.
JAMES ELLIS. Born C. 1869 Carlton. Son of William [stonemason] & Isabella. James a woodman living Masham 1891.
JANE ELLIS. Born C. 1849. Dau of John the Butcher & Mary. Kirkby Malzeard. Masrried on 11.1.1877 at Kirby Malzeard church to Leonard Umpleby. Butcher from Cheetham, Manchester. [b.1851] son of Leonard Umpeby.
JANE ANN ELLIS. Born C. 1868 Grewelthorpe. Dau of Thomas & Ann. Married JOHN CORUS. of Horskham.
JOHN ELLIS. Born C1802. Died 1864. Buried Kirkby Malzeard. M.I. Married to Mary b.C1813. d.1869. Buried Kirkby Malzeard. M.I.
JOHN ELLIS. Bap. 5.6.1870 Grewelthorpe. Buried 30.3.1871. Grewelthorpe. Son of Thomas & Anne.
JOHN ELLIS. Born 1871 Masham. Son of William [stonemason] & Isabella. A Tailor’s apprentice in Masham 1891.
JOHN H. ELLIS. Born C. 1887 Laverton. Son of Robert & Margaret.
JOSEPH ELLIS. Born C. 1820 Masham. Tailor husband of Ann of Trent Bridge. Living Pannal Harrogate 1891.
MABEL ELLIS. Born 1882 Leeds. Dau of Robert the station master & Elsie Ledger.
MARGARET ELLIS. Dau of Robert of Galphay. She married William Allan. son of Richard Allan of Laverton, on 12.12.1842 at Kirkby Malzeard.
MARGARET ELLiS. Born C 1853 Leyburn. Dau of Robert & Mary Calvert.
MARIA ELLIS. Bap. 18.8.1850 Kirkby Malzeard. Dau of John [The Butcher] & Mary. Married on 28.4.1877 at Kirkby Malzeard church to Joseph Pearson. [b.1852] son of Thomas Pearson.
MARY ELLIS [nee ?]. Born C1813. Died 1869. Wife of John Ellis. Both buried Kirkby Malzeard. M.I.
MARY ELLIS nee CALVERT. Born C. 1815 Redmire. Died 1871 Leyburn. Wife of Robert of Grewelthorpe.
MARY ELLIS. Dau of Thomas of Bagwith. Married William Calvert. son of George Calvert. of Carlsmoor. on 28.12.1848 at Kirkby Malzeard church.
MARY ELLIS. Born Oct 1841. Leyburn. Dau of Robert & Mary Calvert.
MARY ELLIS. Born C. 1843 dau of John the Butcher, Kirkby Malzeard. Married on 24.4.1869 at Kirkby Malzeard church to George Thwaites. Stonemason. [b.1846] son of John Thwaites. stonemason.
MATTHEW ELLIS. Born C.1857 son of Thomas. Matthew was a Wholesale grocer in Leeds when he married Sarah Skelton Dobson. at Kirkby Malzeard church on 22.9.1883. She was born 1858 dau of Christopher Dobson. of Kirby Malzeard.
PERCY ELLIS. Born C 1888 Leeds. Son of Robert [Station master] and Elsie Ledger.
RICHARD ELLIS. Born C. 1813 Grewelthorpe.Died 1852. Ag. Lab. Husband of Sarah of Kirkby Malzeard. Living Bells Yard, Allhallowgate, Ripon in 1851. Son of Richard Ellis & Sarah Teasdale.
RICHARD ELLIS. Born C. 1840. Son of John [Butcher] Kirkby Malzeard. Married on 9.6.1866 at Kirkby Malzeard church to Maria Frankland. [b.1843] dau of William Frankland. Coachman.
RICHARD ALEXANDER ELLIS. Born and died 1850. Leyburn. Son of Robert & Mary Calvert.
ROBERT ELLIS. Born C. 1813 died 1883. Husband of Mary Calvert. of Redmire. 1851 a Malster. After 1861 a gardener in Railway St. Leyburn.
ROBERT ELLIS. Bap.7.9.1844 Dallowgill. Son of Robert & Jane. Lived Belford, Kirkby Malzeard.
ROBERT ELLIS. Born C. 1858. Son of Robert & Mary Calvert.
Railway station master. After 1891 living at Station House, Follifoot. Yorkshire. Husband of ELSIE LEDGER. of Bawtry.
ROBERT ELLIS. Born C.1861 Kirkby Malzeard. Stonemason. Married to Margaret of Laverton.
ROWLAND ELLIS. Born C. 1892 Pannal. Son of Robert [station master] and Elsie Ledger.
RUTH ELLIS. Born & died 1850 Leyburn. Dau of Robert & Mary Calvert.
SARAH ELLIS. Born C. 1814 Kirkby Malzeard. Wife of Richard.
SILVESTER ELLIS. Born C. 1881 Masham. Son of William [stonemason] & Isabella. Married to Isabella who died in 1805.
THOMAS ELLIS. Born C. 1828 Galphay. Married on 22.5.1866 Kirkby Malzeard church to Ann Burton of Grewelthorpe. Thomas was a Husbandman & Fellmonger living Gewelthorpe 1871. See Burton page.
THOMAS ELLIS. Son of William a Butcher in Norton Conyers.
Married Mary I’Anson. dau of John of Kirkby Malzeard. on 16.12.1844 at Kirkby Malzeard. Witnesses Robert & Ann Frankland.
THOMAS ELLIS. Born C 1844 Kirkby Malzeard. son of Richard & Sarah. Moved to Somerset in 1891.
THOMAS HENRY ELLIS. Born c. 1855. Leyburn. Son of Robert & Mary Calvert.
THOMAS ELLIS. Born C. 1875 Masham. Son of William [stonemason] & Isabella. Painter’s apprentice in Masham 1891.
WILLIAM ELLIS. Born C.1837 Leeds. Stonemason. Lived Masham 1891. Husband of Isabella of Coverdale.
WILLIAM ELLIS. Born C1841 Swinton. Son of Richard & Sarah.
WILLISON ELLIS. Born C. 1877 Masham. Son of William [stonemason] & Isabella. Mason’s apprentice in Masham 1891.
WILLIAM ELLIS. Born C. 1891 Kirkby Malzeard. Son of Robert & Margaret.



Edwin [Eddy] Ellis of Grewelthorpe in 1976.