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But perhaps relatively the name was as common in Kent as in Yorkshire. In the Subsidy Rolls we have seen the name of more frequent occurrence than in other counties and the no. of wills is proportionally great. Probably the prevalence of the custom of gavelkind is one of the causes of the abundance of the name in this county.*

According to the Indexes in several Volumes of the publication of the New England Genealogical Society, the name of Ellis is not common in the United States; Elliott is much

more common.

It has been stated that in the List of 50 of the most Common Names in England and Wales in 1853 the name of Ellis does not occur. The least numerous in the List are Watson and Griffiths, of whom it was estimated there were 34,800 persons. So that in 1866, 40,000 would be quite a maximum computation for the name of Ellis for the United Kingdom.†

about 2.50 to a thousand. Taking this as a near approximation, there would be about 3500 persons of the name for the whole county of York. At some places none occur in the Directories; at others, the per centage is high, as at Ossett where they rise to 10 per 1000.

I am obliged to my friend A. Shelley Ellis, Esq. for these calculations.

The name is common still in Kent Surrey and Sussex, but the vicinity of the metropolis has probably drawn a larger relative proportion into its bosom, than from the more distant county of Yorksh.

+ According to data furnished in this work and on the presumption that on an average an ancestor had at the end of a century 25 descendants living of his name (which average is ascertained from a collation of several full pedigrees brought down to the present day) this number of 40,000 may be thus distributed ;-5000 of the Kiddall race, 5000 of the Stoneacre and Chiselhurst stock, 2500 of the Helles family, 5000 of the Alis and Fitz Elys descent, 5000 of Norfolk, Suffolk and Linc. origin, 2500 of Welch families, and 15,000 from all other sources, so that probably 20,000 may be of one race and lineage. And this result is justified by comparison with the Norman family of Russell, who may be presumed to be all of one origin, viz. from the family of De Rosel of Normandy. In the London Directory the name of Russell is as common as that of Ellis. In the Testa de Nevill 20 of the name occur, whilst only about 50 persons with the Christian name of Elias. This remarkable fecundity of evidently one family shows that there is a physiological principle that accounts for the increase or diminution of certain families. Why else should some Norman families have become extinct whilst others have been so prolific? Since the Reformation in Catholic families this may be partly explained, younger sons becoming members of an unmarried priesthood; so that recently the heir of the last Earl of Shrewsbury could not be found in a nearer relative than a tenth cousin, the present Earl; and the Dukedom of Norfolk has more than once passed to a 3rd or 4th cousin.

The proportion of Ellises to the whole population of course varies in different parishes and counties. Charlwood in Surrey with a population in 1861 of 1542 numbers about 20 persons of the name, sprung from at least 3 different stocks. The approximate average for the English counties is about 2 in a thousand. Of classes nearly the same proportion subsists, viz. Medical men 21 per 1000; Clergymen 15 per 1000; Gentry of London 19 per 1000. There are about 150 of the name in the London directory, which taking the population as 3 millions would give on the calculation of 2 in a thousand, 6000 Ellises in the Metropolis. The proportion of the Ellises to the rest of the population in Scotland and Ireland is much less than in England and Wales. Probably they may both contain 5000 persons of the name.

Pedigrees.

[These Tabular Pedigrees are but brief abstracts, and omit many names; for fuller information the reader is referred to the various parts of the work, where the Families are treated of.]

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ELLIS OF KIDDALL CO. YORKSHIRE.

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Mary d. of Sir Wm. Lowther of Swillington, ob. 1673.

William Ellis esq. of Kiddall æt. 22, Sheriff of Yorks. 1709, ob.

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Stratton co. Norf. ob. 1799 æt. 66.

William Ellis bap. 1693.

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