Notices of the Ellises of England, Scotland, and Ireland, from the conquest to the present time

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Robert Hawkes Ellis of Wardhouse, born Oct. 31. 1770,
living 1865, who by Mary d. of Rev. Robert Thompson and
Jane d. of James Knox and Rebecca Hastings, who died 1852,
has issue George Ellis, M.B. T.C.D. ; Henry Ellis; Knox
Ellis ; Mary Ellis ; and
Rev. Robert Ellis of Monkstown, Dublin who mar. 1844
Sarah Frances only d. of Robert Orat/rfurd and Frances Forbes,
by whom he has issue
Robert Hawkes Ellis [by whom this pedigree is furnished] ;
Frederick George Ellis ; Francis Forbes Ellis ; Wm. Hastings
Ellis, and Mary Frances Ellis.
Robert Elice* or Ellis was a Captain in the Army, and
came to Ireland with Sir Hugh Clotworthy. He married a lady
of the Norton Family, five of whose brothersf had Commissions
in Queen Elizabeth's forces in Ireland (MS. of the Rev. Andrew
Stuart.) In 1601 he resided in Carrickfergus [In 1608 he was
Sheriff of C. : 1611, Michael Whyte was Mayor.] and in 1606-7,
he obtained grants for ever of two half shares of the Corpora-
tion lands, situated in the Middle Division. He had three sons
John, Edmund and Henry ; the two last are mentioned as being
* This account is taken (with a few unimportant omissions) from MeSkimin's
History of Carrickfergus, Belfast, 1829.
There can be little doubt that this Robert Ellis was of the Stoneacre family.
The Kentish families of Moore (afterwards Earls of Drogheda) Beresford (Earls of
Tyrone) St. Leger, Norton and Whyte, all went over to Ireland in the reign of
Eliz. Thomas Ellis of Stoneacre who died 1583 mentions in his will his br. inlaw
Mr. John Whyte ; and Robert Ellis might have been his nephew.
The heirs of Robert Whyte 20 Edw. III. had a k. f. in Woodnesborough, co.
Kent ; his descendant Sir John Whyte ob. 9 Edw. IV seized of the same, and 12
Hen. VIII Robert Whyte held it by knight's service. (Hasted's Kent.) A branch
of this family settled in Hants. Robert White merchant and mayor of the Staple
of Calais was first at Sandwich in Kent and after at Farnham in Surrey, where
he died. He purchased the manor of South Warnham. He had issue John White
of Yately co. Hants. (Harl. MSS. 1473, p. 70). who died 9 Edw. IV {vide Berry's
Hants. Genealogies.)
t These 5 brothers according to McSkimin were Sir Dudley, Robert, Gregory,
Thomas, and Humphrey. Sir Dudley was long Chief Secretary for Ireland, which
office he resigned from age and infirmities in 1634. But aped, in Harl. MSS. . . .
of Norton does not support this account, and gives only 2 br. to Sir Dudley, viz.
Henry, and Francis, who mar. Dorothy d. of Sir Tho. Famfold by Dorothy d. of
Barth. Rogers by Anne d. of Rich. Ellis. But a Funeral certificate in Bctham's
Coll. (Add. MSS. 23,684) agrees with the latter ped. in mentioning an only s.
Dudley s. of Sir Dudley by Margery d. of Sir Rich. Masters of Kent. The mother
of Sir Dudley was a St. Leger. The Nortons of Kent lived at Chart Sutton and
Boughton-Monchelsea, a few miles from Stoneacre. A match between Norton and
a coh. of Ellis had taken place in the 15th cent.
Robert Ellis living 1634 like Sir Dudley seems to have attained an old age.
His grandsons in 1649 were in active military service ; we may conclude from this
that his marriage must have taken place in the 16th cent, probably in Kent. His
sons seemed to have been named after names prevalent in the Stoneacre family. .