An Ellison Family History

Social and Economic Influence in the Area.

The Ellison family were a prominent family in the North East and the whose experiences reflect the challenges faced in a quickly changing social and economic world from the seventeenth century through to the end of the First World War. They were a ‘modern’ forward thinking family who show through the various generations’; enterprise, a willingness to travel, a huge commitment for service to their country and to the people living around or on their estates.

The Ellison’s were a reflection of wider society and a shift from dominance of influence and power by the historic elite landowners to the newly wealthy entrepreneurs.

The Ellison’s achieved high status through their entrepreneurship, courage and bravery. They married well, went to the ‘right’ schools, joined the right regiments and belonged to the right clubs, but this was only possible for the later generations when they had built their fortunes, and attitudes from the Crimean War onwards were changing towards people with a merchant or trade background.

Each generation of Richard Ellison from 1750 onwards became a Justice of the Peace. This was a pivotal role in local government. In the centuries from the Tudor period until the onset of the Industrial Revolution, the JPs constituted a major element of the English (later British) governmental system, which had been termed sometimes squirearchy through the dominance of the land-owning gentry.

Being an unpaid office, undertaken voluntarily and sometimes more for the sake of renown or to confirm the justice's standing within the community, the justice was typically a member of the gentry. The Justices of the Peace conducted preliminary hearings of all criminal cases, and tried minor offences and infractions of local rules laws and bye laws giving out fines or local custodial sentences in the parish gaol or lock up. However, it was also recorded that some landowner J.P’s would sentence to transportation poachers and livestock thieves.

Until the introduction of elected county councils in the 19th century, JPs, in Quarter Sessions, also administered the county at a local level. They fixed wages, regulated food supplies, built and controlled roads and bridges, and undertook to provide and supervise locally those services mandated by the Crown and Parliament for the welfare of the county. It was an extremely responsible role.

The Poor Law Act 1601 revised in 1834 and 1835, introduced a poor relief rate on property owners. It specified that each parish should take responsibility “for the old

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and the sick, including idiots and lunatics, and provide work for the poor”. The unemployed resident had to have permission from the JP or Landowner to move into another Parish for work, so they guaranteed they did not become a burden on another Parish.

"Poor Law Papers" is a group title which covers various legal documents from the Quarter Sessions that existed to cover the parishes where expenditure on a given person may be required. There are many parishes that do not have poor law records archived under the parish name however Boultham papers are held in the City Archives (they are dated from 1610 to 1834). By the late 18th century the Elizabethan Poor Law system, administered through the Parish was increasingly inadequate when people began travelling many miles in search of employment. Lincoln Poor Law Union was formed on 28th November 1836. Its operation was overseen by an elected Board of Guardians, 89 in number, representing its 86 constituent parishes including Boultham. Several of the Ellison’s including Richard (5th) and Charles sat as members of the Board of Guardians.

The Ellison’s had gradually become part of the new and emergent ruling class, a social class characterized by their ownership of capital, and their related culture and influence. The family often held high political influence and power in national, regional or local government as MP’s, Deputy Lieutenants or High Sheriffs. They also were involved in the day-to-day running of their own localities in such offices as magistrates, Chairmen of Boards (Asylum, Poor Law, School’s) or occasionally key clergy, as the children of Richard and Esther show. They were keen sportsmen, horsemen, and excellent shots. Three generations of Ellison played cricket for Lincolnshire and local sides.

Lincoln grew rapidly from in the period from when Richard Ellison (2nd) built Sudbrooke Holme to the turn of the 19th Century. The population increased from 7,000 at the first census, taken in 1801, to 50,000 by 1900. This meteoric expansion was fuelled by the Industrial Revolution and especially the mechanization of farming. The process began in the Georgian era with the reopening of the Fossdyke canal by Richard Ellison of Thorne. This vital transportation link allowed coal and other raw materials a much easier route into Lincoln than could ever be achieved overland by horse and cart and equally it allowed a route through waterways from Boston to the Midlands.

Manufacturing plants soon grew up around the banks of the river and the Brayford was once again a thriving port area. The Ellison’s as other landowners made money from the sale of lands to the new infrastructure offered by the railways, and in 1846 the railway reached Lincoln further improving its communications with the rest of Britain. It was during the Victorian era that Lincolnshire boomed. Manufacturing of agricultural machinery soon diversified to other areas including defence. By the middle of the 1800s several large industrial concerns, like the firm of Clayton and Shuttleworth had large, dirty factories in the Stamp End area, huddled around the railway yard and the Ellison wharves on the river. Proper sewers, a new water supply

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and a massive increase in housing stock accompanied this industrial growth. By the end of the Victorian era, Lincoln was a prosperous and well established city.

Early Family Roots

The Ellison family had arrived in Newcastle c1500, probably from Stamfordham, Northumberland. They became prominent members of the Merchant Adventurers Guild and the first Cuthbert Ellison was mayor of Newcastle in 1549 and 1554. He was also a landowner and the family landholding was consolidated by his son and grandson, both also called Cuthbert. The main family income was from coal, they owned mines, transported by waterway and trade in coal.

Robert Ellison (1614-1678), a parliamentarian, prospered during the civil war and became an MP in 1647. Acquisition of the Hebburn Estate and the old Elizabethan manor house of Hebburn Hall enabled him to prosper further from the coal trade and to gain gentry status. In 1653 the corporation of Newcastle granted his brother Benjamin Ellison, a merchant, the lease for thirty one years at a yearly rental of 1 shilling, Jarrow Quay one of the longest on the river. It was about 1,000 yards from the quay end to Black Point westward up the river. This was a key spot for the loading and unloading of ballast. Trade on this quay alone ensured that though a small charge was made to the owner, a regular settlement from the corporation to the owner was paid by the council. The family home from 1650 to 1800 was Ellison Hall, a rebuild of the Elizabethan manor, added to over the generations.

Robert's grandson Robert (1665-1726) married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Liddell of Ravensworth Castle, forming an alliance with a wealthy and politically powerful family. This formed a pattern for the rise in wealth and status for the Ellison family which continued through to the Ellison’s of Boultham Hall.

Ellison Hall, Hebburn

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Richard (1st) and Susanna

The Ellison family first became connected with Lincoln in 1740, when Richard Ellison of Thorne, in Yorkshire, began negotiations to obtain the lease of the Fossdyke a canal giving access to central and the North Sea by connecting the to the River Trent. The Witham was navigable from the North Sea to Boston at this time, but when the Romans opened the link to the Trent it provided a new trade route for the Lincolnshire hinterlands and the city of Lincoln (Lindum Colonia).

Richard was primarily a wood-merchant, but had already had considerable and profitable experience in similar enterprises in South Yorkshire. Though he did not own these canals, his family had jetties and wharves on the Stainforth and Keadby Canal which flow across South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire through the large canal basin at Thorne discharging into the River Trent at Keadby.

Using the Fossdyke, and then the rivers, goods such as hay, grain, wool and timber could be sent westwards from Lincoln to the industrial Midlands and North West and Lincoln merchants could bring in cloth and coal to trade within the county and a new level of prosperity could come to the City. Through lack of maintenance over the centuries, the state of the Fossdyke by 1735 was a disgrace, it was no longer navigable and the merchants in the City demanded that work be carried out to open up the channel once more. Records show it was so bad that wagons laden with hay were able to pass over it.

Lincoln Corporation were unable to fund more than minor work to the Fossdyke so looked for private investor to make the canal navigable once more. Because of his experience, Richard Ellison was amongst those approached. He is described in his grandsons’ maiden speech to Parliament as “an inland navigation entrepreneur from Thorne in the West Riding who settled at Lincoln.” (History of Parliament online)

In 1740 the two-thirds share of the navigation was granted to Ellison by lease for 99 years at an annual rental of £25. He was bound by covenant to maintain a channel of 3 feet 6 inches, keep up Saxilby Bridge, and indemnify the City against any claims arising on the altering of Torksey Bridge. By 1743 the work had already cost £3,000 and was far from finished. The canal was navigable in 1744, but by that time Ellison had died.

Coal was delivered to Lincoln, from Yorkshire, on keel boats, which could carry 50 tons, down the Trent, onto the Fossdyke at Torksey and then to Lincoln. Ellison had built warehouses in Lincoln, so he had complete control of everything that came along the Fossdyke. Goods shipped to Boston had to be unloaded at his warehouse and portaged across to Stamp End Lock, making it very expensive to customers and very lucrative for Ellison.

Revenue from the tolls increased five-fold between 1736 and 1746, from £112 to £565, and this reflected the huge difference to merchants in Lincoln that re-opening the waterway had made. As a source of income the Ellison family were to continue to

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benefit for around a hundred years, at the same time supporting the renaissance of Lincoln.

Settling in Lincoln at an unknown address Richard Ellison (1st) died on 20 December 1743, and was buried in the church of St Peter-at-Arches, Silver Street whilst his wife, born Susanna Venoy, whom he had married at Cantley, Doncaster in 1717, died in 1747.

Richard (2nd) and Esther

Richard Ellison of Thorne was succeeded by his son, Richard. Richard (2nd) married Hesther or Esther Walker (accounts differ), the grand-daughter of wealthy ship owner, Captain John Walker of Whitby, to whom the great explorer, Captain Cook was apprenticed in 1746. They had 3 sons and 3 daughters.

Richard is considered to be the architect of the family fortune, building on the work in Lincoln begun by his father. He ran and maintained the navigation channel to support the building of trade in Lincoln, extending the wharves at Stamp End.

External pictures of Sudbrooke Holme from Archives

In 1759 Richard and Esther Ellison bought the Sudbrooke Holme estate and built a large country house, and went to live there in 1774.

Richard (2nd) had been a banker since 1750 in Ellison, Cooke, Childers and Swann Bank (Doncaster). In1775 in partnership with Abel Smith of Nottingham, and John Brown, a Lincoln alderman, he established the first bank in Lincoln. This bank, after two mergers, became the National Provincial Bank in 1918, and is now the National Westminster Bank, although it is still known as Smith's Branch, and that name appears above the door of the premises in Mint Lane. (Lincolnshire Echo March 3 2003)

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In 1792 he purchased the Kirkstead estate, near Woodhall Spa. Kirkstead remained an isolated hamlet, but the area by the River Witham, 'Kirkstead Wharfs' developed as a locally important trading point on the canal system for goods being imported and exported in the local area, including coal, which further enhanced the prosperity of the Ellison family and their standing in the county. His estates were important to him and though there was no large house on the Kirkstead estate (having been demolished before his purchase) he developed and improved the Hall at Sudbrooke Holme and made many improvements to the Sudbrooke estate church at .

Richard (2nd) died on 10 July, 1797, aged 76 and Esther died on 30th December 1813 aged 88. They are buried together in the vault at Scothern Church. In his will he settled a two-thirds interest in the Fossdyke on his eldest son Richard (3rd), and a one-third on his second son Henry of Beverley. His personal estate was £35,604 with two vast estates.

Their children were:

Richard (3rd) b.1754; Henry b.1761; John; Anne; Susanna and Harriet.

John was married to Harriet, daughter of John Parker of Woodthorpe-in-Handsworth, Steward of the Manor of Worksop, Nottinghamshire, and died in 1810. They had no children.

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Anne married Samuel Buck, of New Grange, Recorder of Leeds. The Recorder was a certain magistrate or judge having criminal and civil jurisdiction in a city or borough. A recorder was originally an appointed person with legal knowledge by the mayor and aldermen to record the proceedings of their courts and the customs of the city. Such recordings were regarded as the highest evidence of fact.

Susanna, married Humfrey Sibthorpe of Canwick 1744~1815, Recorder of Lincoln, and M.P. for Boston and later for Lincoln. His roles, as that of his brother in law Samuel, were both unpaid and only suitable for men who had independent wealth.

Harriet, who lived in Minster Yard, Lincoln remained a spinster until her death in 1830.

Richard (3rd) (b.1754) and 1st wife Hannah: 2nd Wife Jane

Extract from; The history of the county of Lincoln: from the earliest period

Richard (3rd) who succeeded his father lived at, and made some alterations to, Sudbrooke Holme. He also became involved in public life as well as serving with the Armed Forces. Much as his subsequent family served, distinguishing themselves in times of war. He was High Sheriff of the county in 1793, M.P. for the City from 1796 to 1812, and was invited to stand again in 1814, but by that time he was MP for Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire, serving for that town until 1820. He was promoted within the Army and died a Lt. Colonel.

Richard married Hannah Jane Cookson, daughter of Isaac Cookson, Esq. of Whitwell Park, Durham, an extremely wealthy Newcastle merchant and trader. They did not have any children and she died in 1810 aged 55. She was buried in the family vault in Scothern church.

Although he left no legitimate children, Richard (3rd) did leave three illegitimate sons; Richard (4th) (b.1807), Henry (b. 1811) and Christopher (b. 1814), by a Miss Jane Maxwell whom he married within a few years of his wife’s death. Though the marriage took place elsewhere, the marriage register for St George's, Hanover Square, , dated 14 December, 1814, records 'Richard Ellison of the Parish of Hampton in the County of Middlesex and Jane Maxwell (now Ellison) of this Parish (the Parties having heretofore been married to each other) were married in this Church by Licence'. Ellison gave a sworn statement when he applied to the

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Archbishop of Canterbury for the special licence. He declared that “some time before be, being a widower, and Jane Maxwell, then being a spinster, were married to each other in North Britain (Scotland) according to the Usage and Law or Scotland, and that they now wished to be married according to the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England.”

Shortly after his marriage to Jane, Richard (3rd) was called to task over his lack of continued stewardship of the Fossdyke. Lincoln West Drainage Scheme had begun in 1805 to drain the low lands to the west of Lincoln on both sides of the Fossdyke, to increase arable and farming land. This was an area of nearly 4,000 acres supporting gorse and heather, and wild duck. New bridges were built over the Great and Little Gowts drains in the High Street. It had some immediate success, as in 1806 archive records show that “fat beef was grazing on Swanpool, where fishes lately swam”.

The Fossdyke banks stood 10-14 feet above the water, and being of sand, part of them quicksand, were constantly falling in, especially if a vessel ran against them. In 1805, when Richard Ellison emptied the Fossdyke for a mile and a quarter from Lincoln and deepened it, this improved the situation but for nearly 15 years after that nothing more was done. Knowing there was a problem Marc Isambard Brunel was asked to carry out and inspection with recommendations for improvements. After many complaints from Commissioners and fellow merchants, in 1826 an exceptional drought caused Richard Ellison to order the work to deepen the channel to be done, at a cost of £6000.

Richard died at his house in Great George Street, Westminster, on 7 July, 1827, in the 74th year of his age, and on 18 July his remains passed through Lincoln for interment at Scothern. The hearse containing the body was drawn by six horses beautifully plumed with ostrich feathers, and the bier was also decorated with ostrich feathers, and followed by eleven coaches. His second wife, Jane Ellison, died at Teddington, Hampton, Middlesex, on 7 February 1847, aged 72, and was buried at Hampton.

There is a memorial to Jane in St Helen's, Boultham, which implies through the wording that she actually lived in Boultham Hall after 1830 with her son before her death. (Possibly when Sudbrooke was passed to Richard (3rd)’s brother, Henry.)

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Henry of Beverley and Lady Mary Perryman

Without a legitimate heir for Richard Ellison (3rd) on his death, both Sudbrooke Holme and the two thirds share of which Richard (3rd) had inherited from his father then passed to Henry Ellison (b.1761), his brother. Henry had married Lady Mary Perryman, daughter of William Berry, of Bristol. They had one son Richard, and 2 daughters: Mary Esther married her cousin Humphrey Waldo~Sibthorp of Canwick. Caroline Harriet became the wife of Lt General Thomas Marten. In 1839 he was called out of retirement to deal with the Chartist riots in Sheffield. He volunteered for Crimea and died in 1868. They had no children.

When Henry died in 1836 the whole estate of Sudbrooke Holme, other lands held in the family including the Foss Dyke passed to his son Richard of Sudbrooke.

Richard Ellison of Sudbrooke (b1788) and Elizabeth Terrott

Born in 1788 Richard of Sudbrooke was educated at Eton and was an officer who served in the Peninsular War. In1814 he married Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of General Terrott of the Royal Artillery, but they had no children. Richard served as High Sheriff for Lincolnshire in 1848 but showed no further interest in public office, but built up the arts and artefacts in Sudbrooke Holme. An acknowledged patron of the arts he was one of the first to provide Millais with support.

Richard not only had inherited Sudbrooke, but he had inherited an on-going dispute about the Fossdyke, which had begun with his uncle and then his father. Held in a box in the Lincoln City archive, papers show that a Commission of Inquiry in the Court of Chancery had been instigated by the merchants and traders and dragged on for years. The Lincolnshire Commissioners had given notice that they wanted back the lease for the Fossdyke in 1839/40. As they had not only invested in repairs and development, but also made a good living from the tolls and berths, the Ellison’s did not want to give it up for nothing. They wanted a compensatory package for not being able to re-negotiate the lease. Though the Commission of Inquiry found in Ellison’s favour, the City Council were offered the lease back but baulked at the price. When in 1847 a railway line was proposed to follow the line of the canal, Richard of Sudbrooke eventually sold his lease in 1850 to the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire railway Society. They subsequently built the line along the bank of the Fossdyke. The Ellison’s connection with the Fossdyke had finally come to an end after over a hundred years. (Lincoln City Archives BS12/3/1/3/390-400)

A generous supporter of all good causes, Richard founded a school at Scothern in 1837, and in 1850 the curate of Sudbrooke recorded that Scothern was a village supported by the bounty of Richard Ellison of Sudbrooke, but it was full of the most ungrateful set of blackguards he ever met in his life. When the Lincoln Poor Law Union was set up in 1836 Richard Ellison of Sudbrooke was elected Treasurer, but he resigned in protest against the use of force against paupers. He died on 20 November 1859, leaving about £350,000, about £10,000 of which he left to various charities immediately, with several similar legacies to be paid annually. He also left £2,000 to the Rev Charles Pratt Terrott, Vicar of Wispington from 1838 to 1886, (who

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was almost certainly his brother-in-law), for the rebuilding of Sudbrooke church, and his pictures were to be exhibited in the South Kensington Museum, but not on Sundays, and in order to comply with this condition they were fitted with blinds, which were drawn on Sundays.

Elizabeth died on 14 May 1873, aged 77, and buried with her husband in the chancel of Scothern church. With no heir the Sudbrooke Holme estate was then inherited by Richards’s two sisters, Mrs. Waldo-Sibthorp and Mrs Marten, and later passed to Mr Coningsby Charles Sibthorp.

The sale document for Sudbrooke Holme Contents

Richard Ellison (4th) of Boultham and Charlotte Chetwynd

Born to Jane Maxwell in 1807, while his father was still married to his first wife, Colonel Richard Ellison married Charlotte, the daughter of Sir George Chetwynd, 2nd Baronet, on 1 August 1830.On his marriage his father (Richard Ellison (3rd)) had provided for him the estate of Boultham to the South of the City of Lincoln.

The estate itself may have dated back to 1150 AD and a 1765 lease document describes it as” a manor with appurtenances and fishing, fish garths, fishponds etc.” Richard (4th) prioritised the development of the rebuild of the Hall, parklands, gardens and excavations were carried out for a new ornamental lake. He mentions the lake in a poem he wrote and published in 1837 entitled “Kirkstead! Or the pleasures of shooting” (Appendix 1). Richard also had lodges and cottages built at the entrances to the park and a private drive linking the estate to High Street (now

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Hall Drive and Boultham Park Road) and employed local companies to carry out the work.

The Lodge opposite St Helens Church before demolition.

One such company was Pennell’s. Founded in 1780 Pennell’s were local nursery- men and from their nurseries just off High Street the planting order for the gardens at Boultham Hall was placed. A friendship between the two Lincoln families ensued and endured across the next generation, through Christopher Charles Ellison, Richard (4)’s second son.

Richard Ellison (4th) took public office becoming a Justice of the Peace, a Deputy Lieutenant of the county, as well as the Lieutenant commanding the Royal North Lincoln Militia, eventually being promoted to Colonel. Founded in 1836 the Lincoln Poor Law Union was served by a Board of Guardians and Boultham Parish was represented, Richard was appointed a Guardian. Keen as ever to support the local population, he installed a steam pump on the river at Boultham to help the city when the floods of 1840 meant that no vessels could traverse the River Witham in Lincoln. The village of Washingborough just downstream from Boultham also installed a steam pump to alleviate the floods.

Though officially outside the estate boundaries, the family thought of St Helens Church as their estate church and in 1864 Richard refurbished the fabric of the church and rebuilt the chancel. In 1868 he added to the small churchyard on the site of an old kitchen garden, where both he and his wife were buried on their deaths on 30 December, 1881 and 8 April, 1863, respectively. They had two sons; Richard George Ellison and Charles Christopher and two daughters; Charlotte Elizabeth Mary and Caroline Jane.

Richard (4th) had two brothers about both of whom little is known, Henry and Christopher:

Henry (1811 to 1880) was detailed in a critical essay by Alexander B Grisart on the sacred poets of the nineteenth century. Several of the details in the biography are

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misleading. However, there is a gravestone in his memory erected by his nephews in St Helens Churchyard. He married a Miss Wells, who predeceased him. They had no children. He died in Kensington.

The second brother Christopher (1814 to 1840) was a captain who died in Birr Barracks, Ireland of typhus. His Army friends paid for the church memorial to be erected in Boultham.

Col Sir Richard George Ellison (5) and Lady Amelia Todd

Richard George Ellison, the eldest son of Richard Ellison (4th) of Boultham Hall, was born on 9 May, 1831, at Teddington in Middlesex, and was educated at Eton. He was commissioned in the 47th Regiment, and served as a Lt. then a Major in the Crimean War, during which he acted as aide-de-camp to General Sir John Pennefather. He was present at Alma, Inkerman, Sebastopol and the capture of Balaclava. He fought with great determination and showed leadership which is recorded in several battalion records.

“Having endured the cruel winter of 1854/55, all six regiments (including the 47th), took a prominent part in the siege of Sevastopol, the capture of which virtually ended the war.” (The Regimental History of the Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment)

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On his return to Lincoln he was met at the railway station by the Mayor and Corporation, who took him in an open carriage with 4 horses to Boultham, where they lunched, and "half the town had cheese and ale". An extremely unusual large memorial stands in the grounds of St Helens Church in memory of his men and those that served with him at Sevastopol (sic). It is a stone from the city walls, imprinted with a shell burst, and in front sit two hollowed out mortar shells. An elm tree was planted at the entrance to Boultham Park to commemorate his safe return. This was brought down on October 26th 1933, when the fierce gusts of a terrific storm split the 80 year old tree trunk across. (Lincolnshire Echo 27/10/1933)

On the 4th of June 1863 Richard George married Amelia, only child of John Todd, Esq., of West Newton, Cumberland, and they had two sons and two daughters. (In 1856 a native of the village John Todd, a Manchester merchant, provided funds for the building of St Mathew’s vicarage, school and four alms houses and he provided a large dowry for his daughter.)

Richard George (5th) went on to join in with social life entertaining at Boultham Hall with a round of parties, balls and fetes. He and his wife entertained and were very much part of the social scene of Lincoln.

Charles Christopher Ellison, Richard Georges’ brother was born on 26 November, 1834, and was educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1858, and was curate of Newark until 1868, then for a time Curate in charge of Wrawby near , until he became Curate of Boultham in 1863. In 1862 he married Elizabeth Beevor daughter of Henry Beevor Esq of Blyth.

In 1874 Charles became Vicar of Bracebridge and Rector of Boultham. In a book published in 1900 it said of C.C. Ellison that in 1897 he “retired into private life, or

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practically so, for he still officiated as Rector of Boultham” which is acknowledged on his memorial plaque in St Helens Church. The population of the parish in 1897 was around 600.

As his brother and their antecedents had, Charles too took a leading part in local affairs. He was chairman of the Lincoln Board of Guardians for nearly 30 years, and Chaplain of Bracebridge Asylum for 43 years. Expert in ivory and metal turning for which he won many medals, he had a Lathe Room at Boultham Park which is mentioned in the sale of the contents 1917.

He was however, most famous as a rose grower. He laid out 4 acres of garden at Bracebridge with thousands of roses, and when he opened the garden to the public it was one of the outstanding events of the Lincoln year as thousands of people visited it. He was a great cultivar of different plants and he with the support of others developed the Ellison’s’ Orange variety of apple. His friendship with the Pennell family had spanned the years and they had sold his rose varieties and his apple variety through their catalogues in 1907. The picture below is loaned from the Pennell archive and was sent to Charles Pennell from Charles Ellison. It shows Charles Ellison at his lathe.

Charles and Elizabeth had 6 sons and their youngest, Major Guy Moreton Ellison, born in 1883, married in 1910 Evelyn Constance Boyd Claypon Garfit, daughter of Bartholomew Garfit, of Dalby Hall, near .

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It was a great social event as seen below. (Reverend Charles is seated next to the young boy.)The couple had six bridesmaids, two train carriers, Commander AA Ellison (Guy’s brother who later became a rear admiral) was best man and another brother Rev Henry Ellison acted as one of the team of three officiating clergy. A reception for 250 was held at Dalby Hall, the brides’ home before they departed for a honeymoon on the continent. They lived latterly at Hykeham Hall, where their daughter now Mrs Anne Faulding was born. Anne is the only member of the Ellison family still living in Lincoln.

Rev.Henry Ellison was a cricketer before he was ordained. He made minor appearances for Lincolnshire from 1889 to 1893. He spent from at least December 1893 to December 1894 in India, where he played for the Madras Presidency and Madras. Rev. Ellison later made a single first-class appearance for Nottinghamshire against the Gentlemen of Philadelphia at Trent Bridge in 1897.

Charles died in Bracebridge in 1910 and local papers showed that hundreds mourned his passing.

The two sisters of Richard and Charles married well:

Charlotte Elizabeth Mary, the older sister married in 1854, Captain Charles Coningsby Sibthorp of Canwick (1817-96).They lived in Lincoln on the Canwick estate. Her husband became MP of Lincoln and his executors oversaw the disposal of Sudbrooke Hall.

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The younger sister, Caroline Jane, married in 1861, to Joseph Shuttleworth of Old Warden Park, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire. Joseph began the changes from agriculture dependency to industry, in Lincoln by creating the first heavy iron manufacturing company of Clayton and Shuttleworth. By the census of 1861 he was one of the largest employers in Lincoln employing 900 men. He had bought Hartsholme estate and built Hartsholme Hall where the couple and children from his first marriage lived until he died in 1883. Joseph’s former home in Bedfordshire now houses the Shuttleworth Collection of Vintage Aircraft. Caroline died having had no children of her own.

Richard George Ellison became established in the local government of Lincoln, was High Sheriff in 1886, a Deputy Lieutenant of the county and a Justice of the Peace. He was also Colonel of the 2nd Volunteer Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment ' He was Appointed Ensign on the Body Guard of Yeoman of the Guard, made a Companion of the Victorian Order, and in 1907, as the oldest Yeoman, was knighted. He died on 27th February 1908, and his widow in October 1914

Richard Todd Ellison (6th) and Elma Rollitt

The oldest son, of Richard George (5th) was Richard Todd Ellison who was educated as his family had been at Eton. Born on 19 September, 1867, he was married in 1896, to Elma, the only child of Sir Albert Kaye Rollitt, a Hull solicitor, steamship owner and Liberal M.P. for Islington North.

He served in the army as a captain in the 2nd Life Guards and then as a Major in the Life Guards Reserve Regiment (1915-1916). A recollection of the battle at Mons specifically mentions him being one of the first officers into action. He survived the war and on his return to , became a Magistrate for Lincolnshire and belonged to several London clubs including Boodles. In 1913 Richard Todd Ellison sold the Boultham estate to a Nottingham Syndicate for development and went to live at Elm House, Elmer Street, Grantham.

He died in January 1932. He is buried in Stoke Rochford churchyard, with his wife Elma. They died without having any children. His inscription on his memorial reads

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“In dear memory of Richard Todd Ellison of Boultham Hall, Lincolnshire, Major 2nd Life Guards born 19 September 1867died 21 January 1932. He had the fewest enemies, was the best company and the handsomest man of his generation. He is widely missed and we shall never see his like again.”

The sale of the contents of Boultham Hall extended over five days in June 1913.

Richards(6th)’ younger brother, George Paget Ellison, a Captain in the 9th Lancers, was born in 1868, and died of enteric fever at Kroonstad in South Africa on 7 June 1902 having survived to the end of the Boer War in May 1902.

Charlotte Amelia, Richard Todd’s eldest sister, married in 1888 Michael Stocks of Upper Shibden Hall, Yorkshire and their elder son Michael George Stocks, (born 1892), a lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards, was killed in action at Ypres on 10 November, 1914. He is in a grave in Zillebeke Churchyard. He was aged 21 years and died during terrific shelling by the German troops near Hooge. Fighting had begun on the 6th November and on the particular day of his death there were 24 killed 37 wounded and 16 missing alongside him in the trenches. He was posthumously awarded the Victory and British war medals and the 1914 Star.

His younger sister, Constance Mary, married in 1869 Harry Plumridge Levita, and their son, Francis Ellison Levita, was killed in action in October 1914 in one of the last battles for the Western Front. He died under fire at Mont des Cats.

The brother of Richard Todd Ellison, George Paget Ellison, along with Michael Stokes and Francis Ellison Levita, Richard (6th)’s grandson, are all remembered on a memorial with a broken shaft indicating the last of a male line of a family in the graveyard at St Helens Church, Boultham.

This ended all connection with the Ellison’s in Boultham itself, although the park is a testament to the importance of this family to the area.

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Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_of_the_Peace

A History of Northumberland, in Three Parts: General history of the country By John Hodgson, John Hodgson-Hinde, James Raine, John Collingwood Bruce http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_WAPAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=Quay+charges+for +the+tyne+in+1650&source=bl&ots=4yuVi5uyV9&sig=l4DM_Q7q2aFDIMSEkSRLBte61BI&hl=en&sa =X&ei=M3_1ULWKLYqX1AXvv4HABQ&sqi=2&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Quay%20charg es%20for%20the%20tyne%20in%201650&f=false

http://www.information-britain.co.uk/history/town/Lincoln17/ http://www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk/Ellison.htm

New Civil Engineer 13/20 April: Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, (born April 25, 1769, Hacqueville, France—died Dec. 12, 1849, London, Eng.) http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/ellison-richard-1754-182

The history of the county of Lincoln: from the earliest period ..., Volumes 1-2 By Thomas Allen http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Sudbrooke/imageDetail.asp?id=77952 http://www.rotherhamweb.co.uk/genealogy/parkerwthorpe.htm

Victorian Lincoln by Francis Hill (Boultham Library)

All the papers in the collection relate to Thomas Marten who married Caroline Harriet Ellison in 1825. Her father was Henry Ellison of St Mary's Manor in Beverley, who left her a considerable inheritance. Thomas Marten was lieutenant-colonel in the 1st Dragoons serving in Ireland from 1835. He briefly retired but was asked to resume command of the Royal Dragoons in 1839 to deal with the Chartist riots in Sheffield. In the 1850s he volunteered for the Crimean War. In 1868 he died. He and his wife had no children and he left his stocks and shares to his brothers, Henry Marten and William Marten, as well as some of his capital assets to his nephew Thomas Wright Marten. Caroline Harriet died in 1882 and left the remainder of the estate to a number of indirect relatives and the papers and memorabilia of the couple came into the hands of their solicitor at that time. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=050-ddcv216&cid=- 1#-1

http://www.heureka.clara.net/lincolnshire/washingborough.htm

'Lincolnshire Leaders, Social and Political’ 1900

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[Copies of this booklet (Complete with additional photographs and historical data) are held in Lincoln Central Library, Welton Library, The Imperial War Museum and several Regimental Museums.] http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/edward-walford/the-county-families-of-the-united-kingdom- or-royal-manual-of-the-titled-and-un-fla/page-118-the-county-families-of-the-united-kingdom-or-royal- manual-of-the-titled-and-un-fla.shtml

CVO Membership in the Royal Victorian Order is conferred by the reigning monarch without ministerial advice on those who have performed personal service for the sovereign,[8] any member of his or her family, or any of his or her viceroys

History of the Brownlows In 1750 the 1st earl became a Commissioner of the Fossdyke navigation, and a shareholder in the Company for Cross Keys bridge and embankment at Sutton Wash. http://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/upload/public/attachments/551/report10.pdf

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