Pierre Comte d'Alencon, 1270, as painted in the Salle des Croisés, at Versailles, and blazoned as "Semé de France à la bordure de geules." This Pierre was of the second race of the Comtes d'Alencon, and of the blood royal of France. Of the first race a branch existed in France who bore a chevron between three eagles, which seems to have given rise to another coat ascribed to the name of Allanson, viz. three eagles on a fess, and also to the eagle in the arms of Ellison, Elson, and Elliston. Bernard d'Alençon, mentioned in the Domesday Survey for Suffolk, D'Anisy (Recherches sur le Domesday) believes to have been a scion of the first race of Comtes d'Alencon. His descendants continued till the time of Edw. I., amongst whom were 1223, Elyas de Alencun, and temp. Edw. I., William de Alazun, both of Lincolnshire. The name of Alanson is met with in Yorkshire at an early period, as considerable landowners; 6 Rich. II., John Alanson occurs in Scotland, and the name is very frequent there in the fifteenth century, as may be seen in the "Acts of the Lord Auditors," where the name of Alison does not occur. But in Yorkshire the name of Alison is met with as early as Edw. III.,* and in Kent much earlier. A pedigree is given in the Visitation of the latter county for 1619 (Harl. MSS. 1548, p. 48), of Allison of Hastinglee, of three descents, deriving them from "Kirby Kendall, in the North." A family of Allison had been settled at Yardsley Hall, in Cambridgeshire, for five generations, in the seventeenth century. In the published Inquisitiones post mortem, for Scotland, during the seventeenth century, the name of Alison occurs frequently.

That some families of Allanson should be sprung from the De Alencons is probable; but that others, and the greater part should have descended from several distinct sons of Alan is, analogically, almost certain. And so it is, that many families of Alison have sprung from the Alansons. In 1579 lived Henry Alison, a scrivener, who also wrote himself Allinson (Coll. Top. & Gen. v. 54-57). But many Alisons were probably originally Ellisons, and conversely. Alison was probably originally never formed from Alis, that being a surname, but from Elias or Elys. But Ellison so originating, must eventually have been undistinguishable from Ellison, softened from the local names of Elliston and Ellisden; the former in Lancashire and the latter in Shropshire and Northumberland. Both these localities are probably to be met with in other counties, where we have Ellesmere, Ellesham, Ellesby, Elleswyke, Ellisworth, Ellesford, etc., named doubtless after the Saxon Ella.

* John and Thomas Allison de Rode occur in Cheshire, temp. Edw. III. (Harl. MSS. 2074, p. 155).

Roger Elyssone and Patrick Allissone, of the county of Berwick, occur in the 'Ragman's Roll,' 1296.

Ellises of Welch Descent.

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ELLIS OF YSTMYLLYN, CO. CAERNARVON.-On the 9th Aug., 16 Charles I., an Inquisition was taken on the death of ELLIS ELLIS, gent., who died seized of the mansion of Ystmyllyn-Issa, and 286 A. land, and lands of Trawsynth, co. Merioneth. By this Inquis., which is very lengthy, it appears that Mallea his wife had remar. Rich. Cotymore, gent., that Owen Ellis and Dorothy his wife, were parents of the said Ellis, and that Ellis ap was his grandfather, who left a widow, Ellen Owen. In Sir S. R. Meyrick's Welsh Genealogies, vol. ii. p. 94, it is stated that Margaret, d. of Owen Ellis, and great-granddaughter of the person of that name [? the above Owen Ellis], with whom Lewis Dwynn's pedigree terminates, mar. Griffith Wynne of Pen-y-berth, Esq. She ob. 22 Nov. 1712, and he 1719. Their descendants, for three generations, possessed the Ystmyllyn estate, but since the middle of the last century it has twice passed by sale into different families. The arms of the Ellises of Y. were those of Collwyn ap Tango, the chief of one of the fifteen tribes of North Wales, viz. Sable a chevron between three fleurs-de-lis arg.

A member of this family is commemorated in the following memorial in St. Chad's Church, Shrewsbury (Le Neve's Mon. Ins. Harl. MSS. 3615; Owen and Blakeway's 'Shrewsbury,' ii. 239).

H. S. E.

JOHANNES ELLIS, S. T. P.

Ex antiquo stemmate Elliseorum de Ystmyllyn in com. Caernarvon oriundus. Menevensis Precentor.

Ecclesiæ

Cathedralis Asaphensis Cancellarius.
Sti Dyfani in Insula Mona? Rector.
Llanvawr juxta Bala

Parochialis{

Uxorem duxit Catharinam Williams de Bedlew in insula prædicta, ex qua

ARMS.-Quarterly of four :

1. Sa. a chevron between three fleurs-de-lis, a crescent for difference.-Ellis. 2. Or, a lion rampant reguardant sable.

3. Sa. a buck statant argent.

4. Arg. a cross patée-flory, gules, between four Cornish choughs proper.

On an escutcheon of pretence, quarterly of four

1 & 4. Gules, a chevron ermine, between three Saxons' heads couped at the neck proper.

2 & 3. Gules, a chevron between three bucks' heads caboshed argent.

N.B. These two last coats were omitted when the shield was newly painted. The crest was gone in Mr. Mytton's time. The monument is now set up in St. Mary's Church.

ELLIS OF ALREY, CO. FLINT.*-This family, with its branches at the Wern and Pickhill, is of great antiquity in N. Wales, as appears by the Visitations in the Herald's office, and the genealogy collected by Owen Salusbury, Esq., and Robert Davies, of Gwysaney, and continued to the year 1664 by John Salusbury, of Erbestoke, Esq. A small portion of the old family estate is still in Mr. Ellis's possession under different entails.

Richard ap Howell (grandson of Morgan of Alrey, temp. Edw. VI.) mar. Margaret d. & h. of Ellis, s. of Ellis Eyton, of Ruabon, by Parnell, d. of Sir Wm. Bulkeley, Knt. His s. & h. Ellis ap Richard, mar. Jane, d. of Sir Thomas Hanmer, Knt., and had 11 children; of these

JOHN AP ELLIS, mar. Jane, d. of John Edwards, and had by her William Ellis and

HUMPHREY ELLIS,† of Alrey (who had a grant of arms from Cooke, Clarencieux, 4 Feb. 1587, viz. ermine, lion passant gules, tail coward; crest, on a chapeau az. turned up ermine, a lion passant gules-Harl. MSS. 1422, p. 242). By his wife Dorothy, d. of Edw. Jones, of Kadwyan, he had issue ROGER ELLIS, of Alrey, Esq., who, by his wife Margaret, d. of Tho. Hanmer, Esq., had issue

ANDREW ELLIS, of Flint, Esq., who mar. Frances, d. of James, Viscount Say & Sele, who died 28 Jan. 1686-7, æt. suæ 53 (M. I. Wimbledon), "having by him one d. & h.," Cecilia Ellis, who Mar. 13, 1672, was mar. in Westminster Abbey to Sir Richard Langley (Coll. Top. and Gen. vii. 164).

RALPH ELLIS, 5th s. of Ellis ap Richard and Jane Hanmer, mar. Jane, d. of S. Griffith, of Overton, gent., by whom he had

THOMAS ELLIS, who mar. Jane, d. of Tho. Salusbury, of Erbystok, and by her had issue

ANDREW ELLIS, only s., who mar. Anne, d. of Robert-apRichard, of Halkin.

JOHN ELLIS, their 2nd s., was of Brazen Nose Coll., Oxf., and died 9 July, 1740. By his wife Cath., d. of R. Kingsman, of Overton, co. Wilts, he was father of

JOHN ELLIS, bo. Aug. 1688, O.S., Fellow of Brazen Nose Coll., and D.D. He died 7 Oct. 1764, N.S., and mar. Margaretta, 2nd d. of Thos. Phipps, Esq., of Heywood, M.P. By her he had issue, WILLIAM ELLIS, Governor of Patna, who lost his

* From 'Burke's Landed Gentry,' Vincent's North Wales,' etc.

† A Humphrey Ellis mar. Lucy Armstrong, and had issue (‘Burke's Commoners,' iv. 349).

Sidney Ellis of Alrey had issue, Rebecca, who mar. Wm. Wynn of Plas-Issa, Esq. She ob. Dec. 1663.

life in the massacre there, 5 Oct. 1763; Catharine, who died unmar.; and

BRABAZON ELLIS, Esq., bo. 12 Aug. 1723; ob. at Widdial Hall, Herts, 28 Nov. 1780 (ob. in Margaret St., Gent. Mag.). By his wife (who remar. July 6, 1782, Rev. John Bishop, Rector of Cold-Higham, co. North.) he had issue a d. Elizabeth, who mar. 1794, S. E. Sawbridge, Esq., and an only s.

JOHN THOMAS ELLIS, Esq., of Wyddial Hall, bo. 28 Sep, 1756; Sheriff of Herts, 1784, and M.P.; ob. 6 Oct. 1836. By his wife, Mary Anne, only d. of John Heaton, Esq., of Bedfords in Essex, he had issue a son, bo. July 2, 1787; another bo. 1795; another bo. July 6, 1788; a d. bo. 1794; another bo. 26 Aug. 1790. His eldest son, John Thos. Ellis, ob. v. p. in active military service, as did his 2d s. Wm. Fane Ellis, in 1804, being a cadet in E.I.C., 1803; the former being a cadet in 1805, capt. 1823, and dying 1827. Wm. Bennett Ellis, another s. and mids. R.N. ob. also v. p. Julia a d. mar. July 1, 1828, Rev. H. B. Thorold at Barrowby, Linc. The only surviving s.

CHARLES HEATON ELLIS, Esq., of Widial Hall, was bo. Aug. 14, 1789, and called to the Bar, June, 1821; mar. 30 Oct. 1819. Louisa eld. d. of Sir Henry Stracey, Bart., by whom he has issue several daughters, of whom Catharine the yo. mar. Sep. 7, 1857, Rev. Tho. Harrison of Bembridge, I. of Wight; Charles John Heaton Ellis, bo. 11 Apr. 1830, 9th Lancers, ob. at Delhi, 1857, and

EDWARD HENRY BRABAZON ELLIS, of Exeter Coll. Oxf., bo. 19 May, 1834. The arms of this family are ermine, a lion passant guardant gules; crest, out of a ducal coronet or a lion's head gules crowned or; motto, Fort et fidele.

ELLIS OF NORTHOPE, CO. FLINT.-Hugh was the father of Richard ap Hugh, who was the father of Thomas ap Richard, bo. circ. 1580, who, by Anne, his wife, was father of

ELLIS AP THOMAS, who died 1656, and by Winifred Jones, his wife, was father of

ANDREW ELLIS, gent., bo. 1532, ob. 1709, who, by Jane Jones, his wife, was father of

EDWARD ELLIS, gent., bo. 1660, ob. 1730, who, by Mary Griffith, his wife, was father of

EDWARD ELLIS, gent., bo. 1724, ob. 1816, who, by his wife Margaret, only child of Thomas Parry, gent., of Gwernymarl,

* Of Plas-ucha and Tybbin Bychan, in the township of Cairvalblough. ARMS.-Arg. 3 wolves' heads erased of the field on a bend vert; Quartering argent, between 4 Cornish choughs a cross fieury engrailed sable (Edwin of Tegengel).

CREST.-A lion passant or on a cap of dignity.

had issue Edward Ellis, eldest son, bo. 1755, ob. 1820, s. p. ; Rachel; Elizabeth; Margaret; Rev. JOHN ELLIS, M.A. & J.P., Rector of Curig y Druidion, co. Denbigh, who died Dec. 1841, and by Mary, d. of Tho. Roberts, Esq. (who died at Ruthin, Jan. 2, 1860), had issue

1. Rev. JOHN RATHBONE ELLIS, Incumbent of Westerdale, co. York; 2. Tho. Ellis; 3. Edward Ellis, who mar. - Croker ; other children: and

Rev. THOMAS ELLIS, M.A., Vicar of Great Milton, co. Oxon, bo. 1762, ob. 1848, mar. 8 June, 1789, 1st, Cath., d. of Tho. Wil-, latts, of Kidmore House, co. Oxon, Esq., who died 1790; 2dly, Mary, d. of Will. May, Esq., of Burgfield, co. Berks, who died Jan. 17, 1840, æt. suæ 80, by whom he had issue Elizabeth Anne, mar. 23 June, 1830, at Great Milton, Rev. Charles Alexander Sheppard, of Great Milton House, formerly of 3d Dragoons, only s. of Charles S., Esq., of Gatcomb Park, co. Glouc.; and Rev. WILL. MAY ELLIS, M.A., Rector of Ickford, co. Bucks, who died July 21, 1846, at Newbury, æt. 42, s. p. By his first wife, Mr. Ellis had an only child,

CHARLES WILLATT ELLIS, Esq., M.A., of Lincoln's Inn, Bar.at-Law, bo. 1790; mar. Aug. 2, 1825, Mary, d. of Will. Peath Litt, Esq., of Liverpool, who died at Kensington, æt. 34, Oct. 14, 1829, leaving a d.

MARY LITT ELLIS.

ELLIS OF CORNIST, CO. FLINT.-This family, long settled at Cornist, was always reputed to be connected with the preceding; the estate has passed out of the family. In 1809, Owen Ellis, Esq., of Cornist, was Sheriff of Flint, and had a son, bo. at Eyton, co. Denbigh, 1792. In 1814, Roger Ellis, Esq., of Cornist Hall, was Sheriff, and died in 1815, æt. 52. William Thomas Ellis, Esq., of Brasen Nose Coll. Oxf., and of Cornist, was Sheriff in 1833.

THOMAS ELLIS, Esq., of Oundle, a lineal descendant of the Ellises of Flintshire, was father of

WYNN ELLIS, Esq., of 30, Cadogan Place, London, Ponsford Park near Hertford, and Tankerton Tower near Canterbury, was bo. 1790, and mar. 1814, Mary Maria, d. of J. Smith, Esq., co. Linc., and great-niece of Charles Pearson, Esq., of Tankerton Tower. Mr. Ellis was Sheriff of Herts, 1831-2, and M.P. for Leicester, 1831-4 and 1839-44 (Walford's 'County Families').

1660, Thomas Ellis had a grant of the office of King's Attorney, co. Denbigh and Montgomery (Cal. of State Papers). 1626. Francis Ellis, of Penley, co. Flint (Cal. State Papers).