▶Date of birth: c1788         Place of birth: York, Yorkshire

▶Father:  Revd. John Ellis, of York (perhaps Prebendary of Ripon)     Mother:

▶Spouse(s):  Mary Brown    Date(s) of marriage:   18 September 1828    Place(s) of marriage: Sheriff Hutton, Yorkshire

▶Occupation: Clergyman (Anglican) and Headmaster

▶Lifestory: Ellis was the son of the Revd. John Ellis, of York. He was educated at Westminster School, and matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1805, Scholar 1806, BA 1809, MA 1813. He was ordained Deacon (Exeter) in 1811, and later that year Priest (York). In 1811 he was appointed Curate of Sutton on the Forest in Yorkshire, and 1812 moved to Wye, in Kent, as Perpetual Curate, remaining in that post until 1817. Between 1812 and 1819 he was also Headmaster of Wye Grammar School in Kent. After living in Sheriff Hutton in the 1830s he moved to Goodrich, Herefordshire, though his ecclesiastical role in these places is unclear. He lived at 4 Wellington Square, Pittville, a clergyman “without cure of souls” from about 1851 until his death in 1857, at the age of sixty-nine.

▶Moved to Pittville from:  Goodrich, Herefordshire      Moved from Pittville to: (deceased)

▶Date of death:  21 January 1857      Place of death: Cheltenham

▶Date of burial:   29 January 1857      Place of burial: Cheltenham New burial Ground, now the Winston Churchill Memorial Gardens

▶Notes:        ID: 5977

Contributor(s):  John Simpson