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My Grandmother, Eliza Ellis (b.1883) left Worksop, Nottinghamshire, in 1912 to emigrate to Toronto, Ontario as a children's "nanny".  She married Frederick Glendinning in 1913 in Medicine Hat, Alberta and then moved to Victoria BC.

Most of her family remained in Britain including parents Eliza Webster (b.1852) and Frederick Ellis (b.1848) and siblings William, Mary Ann (Polly), James, Matilda, Annie, Arnold, Frederick, Harriet (Rita), Delia, Wilfred and Egbert.  Frederick Sr. was the son of Henry Ellis and Mary Whitfield Bright (from Killamarsh DBY) and Eliza's parents were William Webster and Ann McCann. The Websters came from Whitwell, and the McCann family had both Worksop and Sheffield YRK connections. Her grandparents included the Smith family from Blyton Lincolnshire, and the Pettinger family from Hayton/Clarborough, Nottinghamshire. The Smith family is still to be researched, but my most sincere thanks to Simon Pettinger for his patience and efforts in confirming that the Ellis family do have a drop of Pettinger blood and for allowing me to post the results of his research.   

The Worksop Ellis's are a very large family and the database is growing rapidly, thanks to the detective work of "cousins" Joan Brown and Brian Dennis. If you are visiting the Heart of England, do consider staying at Joan's award-winning bed and breakfast: "The Old Orchard Cottage" at Welbeck, the estate of the Dukes of Portland. Visit her website at:   BROWN'S. 

For more information on Webster connections please visit  Jessie Pitt's website.                                Janet Penn's website highlights the Burbidge family, among others. For the Ellis family of Whitwell, Derbyshire, who may or may not be connected with our branch,  see Ian Newton's website.

 

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