Maria Rowntree
Maria was born on 5 August 1848 in Scarborough, the youngest daughter of Quaker John Rowntree, a grocer in Scarborough, and Jane Priestman.[1]
Maria Rowntree | |
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| Born | 5 August 1848 |
| Died | 3 March 1941 (aged 92) |
| Parents |
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| Relatives | Joshua Rowntree (brother) |
In 1867, she married John Ellis in the Friends Meeting House in Scarborough.[2]
Maria had 5 children:
- John Rowntree Ellis, born 1868, died 1889 of rheumatic fever
- Arthur Edward Ellis born 1870, committed suicide in 1891
- Harold Thornton Ellis, born 1875
- twin daughters, Marian Emily and Edith Ellis, born 1878.
Wrea Head Hall in Scalby was built during 1881-2 and the family moved there from Nottingham in April 1883.[3]
Maria died on 3 March 1941 in Scalby.
References
- Bassett, Arthur Tilney (1914). The life of the Rt. Hon. John Edward Ellis, M. P. London: Macmillan. p. 27. OCLC 1048333618. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
- Mina Hubbard; Leonidas Hubbard; Anne Hart (2005). Woman Who Mapped Labrador: The Life and Expedition Diary of Mina Hubbard. McGill-Queen's Press. p. 360. ISBN 0773529241.
- Bassett, p51
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