'Ellis01'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Ellis of Norton, Ellis of Paunton, Ellis of Swineshead, Ellis (Ellys) of Wyham

                               
Anthony or William Ellis of Swineshead
1. John Ellis of Swineshead
  A. Thomas Ellis of Swineshead & Great Paunton (d 1545/6)
  m. Agnes Marshall (a 1545, dau of Ralph Marshall of South Calrton)
  i. John Ellis (of Swineshead & Great Paunton) (a 1546, dspsms)
  ii. Anthony Ellis of Swineshead & Paunton
  m. Anne Sherard (dau of George or Thomas Sherard of Stainby & Stapleford)
  a. Thomas Ellis of Paunton
  m. Margaret Durant (dau of William Durant of Cottesmore)
  (1) Mary Ellis
  m. John Booth of Killingholme
  b. Anthony Ellis
  (1) John Ellis
  (A) Mary Ellis (a 1639)
(2) William Ellis of Swineshead (a 1639)
  m. Jane (a 1639)
  (A)+ issue (a 1639) - John, William, Mary
  (3) Thomas Ellis of Swineshead (d 1639/40, yeoman)
  (A) Frances Ellis (a 1639)
  c.+ other issue (a 1545) - Elizabeth, Ellen, Agnes
  iii. Mary Ellis
  m. Thomas Haugh or Halghe of Wigtoft
  iv. Jane Ellis (bur 05.07.1549)
  m. Richard Cony of Basingthorpe (bur 12.04.1545)
  v. Mary Ellis
  m1. Humphrey Walcott of Walcott
  m2. _ Colville
  m3. John Bothe
  m4. Gabriel Saville of Newton (bur 03.01.1619-20)
  B. ? Anthony Ellis
 

 

 

Presumed to have been connected to the above family, as he "bore the arms of Ellis of Swineshead" was ...
Thomas Ellys of Wyham
m. Anne (d before 25.06.1605)
1. Sir Thomas Ellys or Ellis 'of Wyham' (d 1605)
  m. Jane Hutchinson (d 1605, dau of William Hutchinson (probably not John of Owthorpe))
A. Sir Thomas Ellis of Grantham (bur 07.09.1627)
  m. (before 1605) Jane Armstrong (bur 25.11.1661, dau of Gabriel Armstrong of Wishall)
  i. Thomas Ellis of Wyham and Northill (b c1605, d 06.04.1640)
  m. (08.11.1627) Elizabeth Harding (dau of _ Harding of Northill)
a. Sir Thomas Ellis or Ellys, 1st Bart of Wyham (bpt 08.10.1629)
  m. Anne Stanhope (dau of Sir John Stanhope of Elvaston, brother of 1st Earl of Chesterfield)
  (1) Sir William Ellis or Ellys, 2nd Bart of Wyham & Norton (b c1653, d 06.10.1727)
  m. Isabella Hampden (dau of Richard Hampden of Hampden, Chancellor)
  (A) Sir William Ellis or Ellys, 3rd Bart of Wyham & Norton (dsp 14.01.1741-2, 2nd son)
  m1. Elizabeth Hussey (dsp, dau of Sir Thomas Hussey of Dodington)
  m2. Sarah Gould (d 02.02.1769, dau of Thomas Gould of Ivor, she m2. Sir Francis Dashwood, Bart)
  (B) Anne Ellis (d 02.1722-3)
  m. Edward Cheke or Check of Pergo
(C) Isabella Ellis
  m. Richard Hampden (dsp)
  (D)+ other issue (d unm) - William (b c1673, d 23.02.1680-1), Thomas, John, George, Sarah (d 10.02.1735-6)
  (2) Jane Ellis
  m. William Strode of Barrington (d before 05.06.1695)
  (3)+ other issue - John (b c1662, d 02.05.1686), Dorothy (bur30.06.1674)
  b. Anne Ellis (bpt 02.09.1628, d 03.07.1662)
  m. Thomas Yarborough of Campsall
  c. Elizabeth Ellis of Campsall (bpt 20.09.1631, d unm 1651-2)
  ii. Sir William Ellis of Grantham (bpt 19.07.1607, d unm 03.12.1680, Attorney General, 3rd son)
  iii. John Ellis (bpt 26.07.1614, 5th/6th son)
  m. (1658) ??
  The following comes from BLG1886 (Ellis of Sea Park) which reported that the following Thomas was son of John "stated to have been fifth son of Sir Thomas Ellis, of Wyham".
  a. Thomas Ellis of Monaghan (d 1714, to Ireland)
  m. Mary
  (1) Francis Ellis (b 1683, d 1773)
  m. Joan Maxwell
  (A) Henry Ellis, Governor of Georgia & Nova Scotia, Provost Marshal of Grendada, Tobago, etc. (d unm 1806)
  (B) Robert Ellis of Arduncheon, co. Fermanagh (b 1726, d 1782)0
  m. Penelope Leslie (dau of Rev. Alexander Leslie of Portglenore)
  BLG1886 confuses the generations at this point, showing most of the following as siblings of Robert but the dates (and confirmation that Henry was his 2nd son) indicate that they were his children.
  (i) Francis Ellis of Bath (b 1772, d 1842) had issue
  m. Mary Kilbee (dau of J. Kilbee)
  (ii) Henry Ellis of Mount Stewart (b 1774, d 1848) had issue
  m. Elizabeth Cupples (dau of Thomas Cupples of Lisburn)
  (iii) Jane Ellis
  m. Rev. William Maxwell of Falkland, co. Monaghan
  (iv) Isabella Ellis (d 1795)
  m. William Mayne of Freame Mount
(v) Penelope Ellis (d 1848)
  m. Rev. Francis Lawrence Gore
  (vi)+ other issue (d unm) - Robert (d 1775), Alexander (b 1776, d 1796), Sarah
  (2) Richard Ellis (b 1684, d 1774)
  (A) ?? Ellis
  (i) Thomas Ellis (master in Chancery)
  (a) Richard Ellis of Abbeyfeale, co. Limerick
  (3)+ other issue
  iv. Margaret Ellis (b before 1605, d before 16.02.1658-9)
  m. (07.10.1624) William Adams of Owston (b c1607, d before 09.1657)
  v. Elizabeth Ellis (b before 1605, d before 27.09.1653)
  m. (06.08.1618) Peter Ashton of Grantham (d 1653)
  vi. Dorothy Ellis (bpt 01.06.1612, a 09.1657)
  m. William Ashurst of Ashurst
  vii. Jane Ellis (bpt 14.05.1618, d 01.08.1639)
  m. (1637) Ridge John Locke of Hertfordshire
viii.+ other issue - Edmund (bpt 29.06.1606, d young?), Gabriel (bpt 06.01.1608-9, a 09.1628), George (bpt 08.03.1609-10, a 09.1628), Henry (bpt 13.06.1613, bur 09.04.1652), Joseph (bpt 07.12.1616, d young?), Joseph (bpt 13.10.1722, a 09.1628), Benjamin (bpt 04.07.1624, a 09.1628), Judith (bpt13.01.1619-20)
  B. George Ellis of Gresholme (and Wyham) (d before 23.06.1643)
  m1. Frances Radley (bpt 13.10.1566, d before 1629, dau of William Radley of Yarborough)
  i. Jane Ellis (a 09.1657)
  m. Sir William Bury of Grantham
  ii. Anne Ellis
  m. Michael Clipham of Otteby
iii. Dorothy Ellis
  m. (29.11.1625) Isaac Knight of Lincoln
  iv. Frances Ellis (a 09.1657)
  m. William Thornton of Grantham
  v.+ other issue - William (b c1611), Mary (a 1634)
  m2. Alice (a 1639)
  C. Jane Ellis (a 06.1605)
  m. (?) _ Audley
  D. Dorothy Ellis (bur 01.01.1629-30)
  m. (after 11.1570) William Knight of Kirmington (a 1625)
  E.+ other issue - Elizabeth (a 11.1570), Anne (a 11.1570)
2. Elizabeth Ellys or Ellis
  m. Francis Ayscough (son of Sir Francis of South Kelsey)

Main source(s):
(1) For upper section : Maddison's Lincolnshire Pedigrees (1906, Ellis of Swineshead)
(2) For lower section : Maddison's Lincolnshire Pedigrees (1906, Ellis of Wyham) with some support from BEB1841 (Ellys of Wyham)
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