'Ellis06'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Ellis of Chester, Ellis of Overleigh

                               
Dio ap Griffith
m. ?? (sister of William Goch , Sheriff of Chester (a 1463))
1. Ellis ap Dio (d 1523-4)
  m. ?? (dau of Jenkyn ap Blethyn, sister of David & James)
  A. Matthew (ap) Ellis of Overleigh (d 06.02.1548-9)
m1. Alice (d 1537, widow of Ellis ap Tudor)
  i.+ issue
  m2. Mary Dutton (dau of Sir Piers Dutton of Dutton)
  ii. Matthew Ellis (a 1546, d 20.04.1574)
  m1. Elizabeth Brown (d 1570, dau of Thomas Brown of Netherlegh)
a. Matthew Ellis (b 08.1567?, d 13.07.1613)
  m. Katherine Allen (d 11.01.1671, dau of Ralph Allen of Chester, m2. Matthew Browne, m3. Randle Holme)
  (1) Matthew Ellis
  m. Elizabeth Judson of Namptwich
  (A) Matthew Ellis (b c1639, a 1670, 2nd son)
  m. Anne Birkenhead (dau of John Birkenhead of Backford)
  (i)+ issue - Matthew, Anne
  (B) Katherine Ellis
  m. Henry Grey of Handbridge
  (C)+ other issue - Randle (dsp), Henry, Joseph, William, Sarah, Amy
  (2) Katherine Ellis
m. Randle Holme of Chester
  (3) Amy Ellis
  m. Alexander Bird of Chester
  m2. Margery
Possibly of this generation, but (if so) of which marriage is not known, was ...
  b. Juliana Ellis
  m. Thomas Cowper of Chester (bur 01.01.1620)
  iii. Julian Ellis
  m1. (dvi) _ Hope of Bruershall
  a.+ issue
  m2. John Clippesley of Clippesley (Clipsbye of Clipsbye)
  iv. Margery Ellis
  m. _ Knight of Handbridge
  B. Joan Ellis (a 1548)
  m. _ Taylor (d by 1548)
  C. Elizabeth Ellis
  m1. Thomas Browne (son of Richard of Netherleigh)
  m2. (c1524) Thomas Govet
2. William ap Dio (a 1482)

Main source(s): 'The history of the church and parish of St. Mary-on-the-Hill' (J.P. Earwalker (edited by Rupert Morris, 1898), 'Ellis of Overleigh and Chester', p275)
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