Maria Rowntree

Maria Rowntree
Maria Rowntree
Born	5 August 1848; Scarborough
Died	3 March 1941 (aged 92); Scalby
Parents	John Rowntree (father); Jane Priestman (mother);
Relatives	Joshua 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.

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

[Bassett-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

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