Mag.) Major Ellis mentioned at p. 68 of the "Notices," was adopted by, and took the name of Governor Ellis. The arms of this family, as adopted by Major John Joyner Ellis, were the arms of Ellis of Wyham, co. Linc. viz. on a fess 3 escallops between 3 crescents.

ELLISES OF SCOTLAND.

The following is a more copious account of the ancestry of the late Rt. Hon. Edward Ellice than that given at p. 74.

GEORGE ELLICE mar. Isabel d. & h. of Adam Barclay, notary public, and Christian Chalmers, his wife, of Knockleith, in Aberdeenshire; and thus acquired that estate, which subsequently passed into the family of Duff of Halton. Adam B. (who with his wife were buried in Auchterless kirkyard, in Aberdeenshire, the former dying 12 Aug. 1695, and the latter 18 Apr. 1696) "was directly descended from the Barclays of Tolly, now spelt Towie, one of the most ancient families in Aberdeenshire, and now represented by the Russian General, Barclay de Tolly. The Barclay arms still remain on the front of the ancient castle of Tolly, in the neighbourhood of Auchterless." (Letter of the late Minister of Auchterless, to the late Provost Blaikie of Aberdeen.) The said Geo. E. ob. 23 June 1736; his wife Isabel, Dec. 1727, both being bur. in A. kirkyard.

WILLIAM ELLICE, their son, of Knockleith, mar. 1 June 1738, Mary Simpson, of Gartly. He died 19 Aug. 1756; she, 15 Feb. 1786, both being buried in A. kirkyard. He had 2 brothers, freeholders in Aberdeenshire. He had issue,-Helen, born 1739, ob. cæl.; Catharine, bo. 1741, mar. Capt. Phin, of Monellie; William, bo. 1745; Robert, bo. 1747; John, bo. 1749; and James, bo. 1754, who all went to America, and died unmarried. Robert, however, had a natural son, the Rev. Robert Ellice, for some years Curate of Welwyn, co. Herts, who mar. but had no issue, and died about 1810.

ALEXANDER ELLICE, Esq. the eldest son, born 1743, was an advocate at the Scotch Bar, afterwards an American merchant, and lived at Bath. He was Patron of the Advowson of Aston, co. Herts. in 1804, as was his son William, in 1809. He mar. Anne Russell, by whom he had issue WILLIAM ELLICE, Esq. M.P. bo. 1785, mar. Oct. 23, 1809, at Rossie Castle, Scotland, Harriet d. of Hercules Rosse, Esq. of Rossie, by whom he had issue, Alexander, bo. Aug. 23, 1811, at Logie Castle, and ob. cæl.; William Ellice, bo. 1814, and mar. Jane, eld. d. of the Earl of Radnor; Harriett, who mar. Rev. Charles Long; Anne-Louisa, who mar. 12 March, 1840, Jas. H. H. Atkinson, Esq. of Angerton co. Northumb.; Caroline-Horatia, mar. 19 Aug. 1834, Rev.

Henry Chaplin of Blankney; and Helen, who mar. Rev. Sinclair, br. of Sir Geo. S.: General ROBERT ELLICE, bo. 1784, Col. of the 24th Regiment, who died June 18, 1856, and mar. Eliza Courtenay, who died at Norwood, æt. 68, May 2, 1859, by whom he had issue,-ROBERT ELLICE, Esq. bo. 1814, who died at Balbirnie, Fifeshire, Dec. 19, 1858, æt. 43, having mar. March 1, 1853, at St. Geo. Han. Sq., Eglantine-CharlotteLouisa, 3d d. of the late Lieut.-Genl. Balfour, of Balbirnie, by whom he left issue,-Jane, bo. 1858, Mary, bo. 1859, and EDWARDCHARLES ELLICE, bo. 1860; Eliza, mar. Henry Brand, Esq. M.P. for Lewes ; and CHARLES ELLICE, Brigadier-General, who mar. 1862, Louisa, eld. d. of Wm. Lambton, Esq.;-Mary, bo. 1786, mar. Edw. Kerrison, Esq. and had issue, int. al. Sir. Edw. K. Bart.; -Helen, bo. 1790, mar. 1st. Charles Chisholme of Chisholme, N.B., 2d. Walter Burrell, Esq. of West Grinstead, M.P. for Sussex :-ALEXANDER ELLICE, Capt. R.N. who mar. 1825, Lucy yo. d. of Charles Locke, Esq. who left issue, his 2d d. CatharineFrederica, marrying June 16, 1855, at Hampton Court Palace, Francis Fortescue, Esq. :-RUSSELL ELLICE, Esq. born 1799, M.A. of Brazen Nose Coll. Oxf. 1821, mar. Harriet Chaplin, of Blankney, sister of Rev. Henry C. aforesaid, and has no issue : -Rev. JAMES ELLICE bo. 1787, B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811, of Univ. Coll. Oxf., Rector of Clothall, co. Herts. 1816, died there, June 5, 1856, and by his wife, Agnes Bruce, had issue, James-Stuart Ellice, Esq., who died at Paris, æt. 35, Oct. 3, 1857:—and

The Right Hon. EDWARD ELLICE, eldest son, bo. 1783, died Sep. 1863, Secretary to the Treasury, Secretary at War and several years M.P. for Coventry. Mr. Ellice was mar. twice,1st. 30 Oct. 1809, Hannah-Alithea, 2d. of Charles 1st Earl Grey, and relict of Capt. Bettesworth, R.N., who died July 28, 1832, and 2d, 1845, Anne Dowager Countess of Leicester, who died 1846. By the 1st lady he had issue,

EDWARD ELLICE, Esq. bo. 1810, M.A. of Trin. Coll. Camb. 1831, and M.P. for St. Andrew's, who mar. Katharine Jane 2d d. of General Balfour of Balbirnie.

The following Notices are taken from the Inquis. post mortem for Scotland, published by the Record Commissioners. They evidently concern the members of one family, who were doubtless ancestors of the Ellices of Knockleith.

Patrick Ellis, merchant of Edinburgh, was father of Patrick Ellis, merchant of E., his s. & h. 1624-8, whose son James Ellis, merchant of E. was heir of his grandfather Patrick E. 1631, who had issue James Ellis, his s. & h. 1656.-James Ellis mar. Margaret Cairn, heir of her father James Cairn, burgess of Edinburgh, 1608.-James Ellis s. of James E. writer in Edinburgh, was heir of Catharine d. of Alexander Leslie, writer

of the signet, his mother, of the lands of Scotstown hill, in the par. of St. Andrew's, 1688.-Robert Ellis, in 1640, was heir of his father, Patrick Ellis, merchant of Edinburgh.- John Ellis of Elistune was heir, 1631, of his father John Ellis of E.-Patrick Ellis of Plewlands, had issue two sons, James Ellis of Southside, his heir, 1652, and John Ellis, his 2d. s. dead 1652. Janeta Scott, wife of Thomas Ellis, writer of the signet, was 1699, one of the coh. of John s. of Francis Scott.-Janeta and Isabella Ellis were coh. 1647, of John Ellis s. of Alexander Ellis of Newington, their br.-Elizabeth and Christiana Ellis, 1685, were coh. of John Ellis, their br., children of John Ellis, advocate.-James Ellis 1672, was heir of his father John Ellis, writer of Edinburgh.-John Marshall s. of Geo. M. merchant of Edinburgh, 1692, was heir of James Ellis, s. of John Ellis, writer, his uncle.-James Ellis of Huntly Wood, was heir 1695, of his father James Ellis, of the same place.-Patrick Ellis, merchant of Edinburgh, had issue James Ellis of StanhopeMilne, and Ellis, father of James Ellis of S. M., heir 1684, of his grandfather.-John Ellis, advocate, was heir 1640, of his father Patrick Ellis, merchant of Edinburgh.-John Ellis of Elistune had issue James Ellis and Isabella Ellis and Joanna Ellis, who were heirs 1686 of their brother.-1676. John Ellis, jun. was of Eliestown, advocate.

Elliestown is in the parish of St. Boswell's or Lessudden, in Roxburghshire, and now or late was the property of Robert Tulloch, Esq. (Blackwood's Statist. Acc. of Scotland, iii. 106.) George Brown, Commissioner of Excise, was of Elistoun in 1769, when he mar. Dorothy Dundas. (Douglas' Peerage of Scotland, i. 595.) Southside is in the vicinity of Ellistun. No notices of the Ellises of Scotland have hitherto been met with earlier than the above, except of John Eliss or Elis, who occurs twice, in 1474 & 8, in the Acts of the Lords in Council. He was probably ancestor of the above-mentioned persons, for they were sufficiently numerous at the beginning of the 17th century, to require their descent to be deduced from a common ancestor who must have lived a century or more previously.

The first notice of Elliestoun is in the Cartulary of Dryburgh Abbey (published by the Bannatyne Club). In 1220, occurs a charter of John s. of Yliff* of Ylistoun. Ylistoun subsequently belonged to the Abbey. In the Cartulary of Melrose Abbey occurs a charter of John the son of Ilive of Ilive-. ston, apparently the same person: and in 1249, a charter of Agnes or Avicia, d. of John and ux. of Laurence de Ilifistun, the seal thereto being a fleur-de-lis (not on a shield) the legend surrounding it being "S' Laurenc [ii d] e ilifistoun." And

Orm s. of Eilav; Laurence s. of Orm; Eilif s. of Uchtred, and Eilaf s. of Gospatric, occur as witnesses to early charters.

in 1292 occurs a seal of a boar's head couped, contourné, in middle chief point, a fleur-de-lis, the legend being "S. Johannis de Elfiestun" (Laing's Scottish Seals). Here we have the name and arms of Elfinston, though that family is traced to a place of the name in the county of Edinburgh, and as far back as John de E. who lived 1250-52. Prima facie, "Ellies of Elliestown" looks like an old Scotch family "of that ilk," but the ruthless excavations of Archæology discover the old foundations upon which the more modern superstructure has been built. The first Ellies of Elliestown probably became owner in the 16th century, and must have been fortunate to acquire an estate that apparently placed him in the same position as many of the old families of the country. There is another Elliston however in Scotland, that investigation equally shows has no claim to have been named by an Ellis. This is the manor and castle of Elliston in the parish of Lockwinnock in Renfrewshire, which was the inheritance of the Sempill family, and was in 1344 called "Eliotstoun,"* when Wm. de S., Steward of Renfrew, was owner, he having first acquired it some time before. (Douglas' 'Peerage of Scotland.')

That the name and family of Elis, however, existed in Scotland earlier than in the instance cited in 1474, is highly probable. Further research amongst unpublished charters, would. doubtless confirm this opinion. Indeed, analogy must fail in this instance if it were not so. Though the general practice of the Scotch in forming Surnames from Christian names was to add the suffix "son," yet many Christian names were assumed as surnames without any addition, as Edgar, Allan, Bertram, Adams, Greig, etc., which are found at an early period in Scotland. We have seen that Elias or Elys as early as 1296 had produced Elyson, for there can be little doubt that the instance in the Ragman's Roll is not a corruption of Alanson. Where there are so few indications as in the case before us, it would be purely conjectural to attempt to fix the ancestry of the Elyson and Allison of the Ragman's Roll; still more so, to assign a lineage to some as yet unknown family of Elys in the 13th century, progenitors of the John Elis of 1474. Yet, the inquiry is narrowed and somewhat defined by facts and circumstances. Chalmers in his "Caledonia" affirms that Theobald le Fleming, who had a grant of land in Douglas, was ancestor if not father of William of Douglas, father of Sir Archibald de D. who lived 1228. This family there is no doubt was of the same race as the Erchenbald of No. I. (p. 33), of whom and whose ancestry

*This shows the Eliot family to have been settled in Scotland earlier than the Peerage carries their pedigree. In Surrey the family existed as early as the beginning of the 13th century. The name is doubtless the same as "Helio" which occurs in Domesday Book, under Staffordshire.

see more at large hereafter in this number. The Hampshire family of Croc was of this stock. An Elias Croc occurs in that county temp. John. Robert Croc (doubtless of this family) obtained a grant of lands in Scotland from Walter Fitz Alan in the 12th century, which were named after him Crockstoun (Chalmers). The family of Waleys also obtained grants of land: this was also a Hampshire family; so too was that of Bretun (and, as will be seen, closely associated with the Alises of Allington). Now in the Ragman's Roll, Elizeus Britun is mentioned as a landowner in Berwickshire along with the Alisons. Is it not therefore, from all this, probable that an Alis of Allington migrated with other Hampshire men into Scotland, and shared in the grants which were made to his Southern neighbours? That the Alisons should, though not in the manner and for the reasons given in Nos. I. and II., be descended from the Alises, that is from some member christened Elias, may be reasonably supposed; a supposition confirmed by the coat of Alison, party per bend or and azure, a fleur-de-lis counterchanged, which is given in James Pont's Collection of Arms of the Second Gentry of Scotland in the 17th century* (Cott. MSS. 940) and the next step is to suppose that whilst one son may have adopted the surname of Elyson, another might have continued without change the patronymic of Ellis or Elys. But it must not be overlooked that there were other patent sources for both surnames of Elys and Elyson. A contemporary of Archibald s. of Wm. de Douglas, was Elias fil. Odonis, witness to a charter (Reg. Hon. de Morton-Appendix). Radulfus fil. Elye was witness to a charter of Ranulfus de Sulis before or during temp. Will. rex Scot. (Reg. of Newbottle, p. 30). In the 12th century occurs a charter of Waldeve s. of Cospatrick, and br. of Patrick de Home, to his cousin Elias de Dunbar (Chalmers). Fulbert, in the 12th century, obtained the lands of Pollock, and had a son Helias (Ibid.). In the same century, a Bp. of Glasgow had a brother and a nephew, both named Helias (Cart. of Melrose Abbey).

ELLISES OF YORKSHIRE.

P. 60. Lepton is in the par. of Kirk-Heaton, and about 20 miles from Barnburgh. The addition of" Kiddall" to Wm. Ellis s. of Richard, is evidently wrong. John of B. s. of the 2d. Richard mar. d. of Sir Langton; and his son Richard Elys Aunger, and had John of B. 13 Hen. VIII.

mar.

* This, in Nisbet's Heraldry, ed. 1722, is given as Party per bend gules and or, a fleur-de-lis counterchanged, "as in Mackenzie's Heraldry."