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The Ellis Name English patronymic name Ellis, derived from a medieval given name Elis, a vernacular form of Elijah (from Greek Elias > Hebrew Eliyahu = Jehovah is God). Variations are Elliss, Elis, Ellice, Elys, Heelis, Hellis, Helis, Elias . Cognates include Elie, Helie, Elias (French); Elias, Elia (Italian); Elías (Spain); Elias (Portugal); Elies, Leyes (German); Iliasz (Polish); Elijah, Eliyahu, Elijahu (Jewish). Ellison, Ellisson, Elliston, Bellis (Welsh), D'Elia, D'Elias (Italian) Eliet, Eliez, Elion, Alliot, Heliot, Heliot, Helin (French), Ilyenko, Ilchenko, Ilchuk (Ukrainian) are patronymic forms. (Broken Arrow Publishing) How Common is the Ellis Name? The Taliesin database, is "an extract of an Office of National Statistics database, and contains a list of surnames in use in England, Wales and the Isle of Mann* in September 2002. The list contains almost 270,000 surnames, shared by 54.4 million people. The entire database contains over a million surname hared by 55.9 million people". The database lists 74941 with the surname Ellis. This puts Ellis as the 71st most common surname. According to the Talieson website "the database is also said to include a level of duplicate entries and misspelt surnames, as well as people currently living abroad and temporary visitors to England and Wales. However, experience suggests that multiplying the result for your surname by 0.93 will give a good idea of the living population for your surname, and multiplying by 3.5 will give the population since the start of parish registers in the 16th century". *NB Please not that Scotland is not included
My Ellis Family: A Brief History My Ellis line begins with Jane Jones Ellis, born about 1809. She married Samuel Crosby in Cathedral, Manchester, England on 17 April 1833. She was listed as coming from the parish of Liverpool. At some point after the marriage they moved to Liverpool where they were the parents of the following children:
Unfortunately Jane lost both her daughter Catherine and son George when they were young. Jane died of Cholera on 19 August 1849 at 8 Greenland Street, Liverpool, Lancashire, England. She was survived by her husband, Samuel and her daughter, Jane Ellis Crosby.
My Ellis Ancestors grandparents: Blanche Wood & John Taylor (1917) g grandparents: Violet Blunt (1881) & Joseph Wood (1882) gg grandparents: Jane Ellis Crosby (1844)& Frederick George Blunt (1849 ggg grandparents: Jane Jones Ellis (1809) & Samuel Crosby (1810)
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