Maria Rowntree

Maria Rowntree
Born(1848-08-05)5 August 1848
Scarborough
Died3 March 1941(1941-03-03) (aged 92)
Scalby
Parents
  • John Rowntree (father)
  • Jane Priestman (mother)
RelativesJoshua Rowntree (brother)

Maria (5 August 1848 in Scarborough – 3 March 1941 in Scalby), the youngest daughter of Quaker John Rowntree, a grocer in Scarborough, and Jane Priestman.[1]

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.

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Bassett, p51