Carteret John William Ellis Esquire JP, Magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant for Cornwall MA from 1840, M.P. Candidate for West Cornwall 1836 and Bodmin 1837, of Park-Road, [1][2] Clapham Park, Surrey, and of the Middle Temple [3] in the City of London.
Carteret John William Ellis (1805–1858), JP, Deputy Lieutenant for Cornwall, MA
Born on 11th September, baptism 11 Dec 1804, [4] St. Margaret's, Westminster, London. Later inscribed 1805. [5][6] Son of John Ellis and Harriott Buckmaster.
Named in the Will of his father John Ellis, of James Street Buckingham Gate, Middlesex, probate: 7 Jan 1832. [7]
Also named in the Will of his Great-Uncle: William Ellis Esq (-1822) of North Street Westminster, [8] and in regards to his late Great-Uncle - A Copy feoffment and release; consideration £12,500, dated 31 Dec. 1825, with names of relatives of and including Carteret John Wm. Ellis of Trinity College, Cambridge, esq. residing at Paris, France son and heir of John Ellis of James St., Buckingham Gate, Mx., now of Penzance esq. Ellis in the Records of the Leah Family of Paul
Education
15th January 1822 he went to Trinity College, Cambridge age 17
School Westminster
Matric.
Lent, 1822;
B.A. 1826;
M.A. 1831.
Admission 4th November 1824 [9] at the Middle Temple. [10]
Career - Cornwall / London
Director Mentor Life Assurance Company, 71 Lombard Street, London. Capital, One Million Directors 1836 [11]
M.P. Candidate announcing his intention for the honour of representing The Electors of The Western Division of Cornwall 1836, [12] elected: Charles Lemon[13]
A Committee Member for The Management London, Exeter and Falmouth Railway Company, 1837 [16]
Called to the Bar - Barrister-at-law 3rd May 1839 [17].
Deputy Lieutenant for Cornwall from 1840.
Practising Law at Penzance, in 1850
Author: Lecture on National Education, Book Link[10] published 1st January 1853.
Deputation for Mount's Bay Breakwater- The Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and Princess Victoria have been graciously pleased to signify, through Sir John Conroy, to Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., M.P., Mr. Pendarves, M.P. and Carteret J. W. Ellis the Deputation for the Breakwater in Mount's Bay. Letter to Kensington Palace dated July 27, from John Conroy and Carteret J. W. Ellis. [18]
Cornwall and England Newspaper 6 May 1836, Friday [19]
Mount's Bay Breakwater - We copy the following from the Courier of Tuesday last - "Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., M.P., Mr. Pendarves, M.P., Mr. Carteret Ellis and Mr. F. A. Ellis, R.N., as a deputation from Penzance and neighbourhood, had a meeting today with the first Lord of the Admiralty, relative to the proposed Breakwater in Mount's Bay, in the County of Cornwall, when his Lordship agreed to direct a survey and reposit from an Engineer of eminence." We understand that during the late prevailing winds from N, NE, the Mount's Bay has presented quite an interesting scene, being crowded with vessels of various descriptions, windbound; no less than from 250 to 300, riding at anchor in the roads, exclusive of a vast number which took shelter in the piers at Penzance and St. Michael's Mount. We are informed by a Correspondent, that had the wind shifted suddenly to southward, and blown equally hard (as sometimes happens) a great portion of this fine fleet of vessels would, in all probability, be stranded, whereas with the proposed Breakwater they may at all times ride within it in perfect safety, in any wind.
Marriage
Portrait of Emily, Wife of Carteret John William Ellis, by John HOLLINS (1798-1855)
He married Emily Railton on the 6th July 1831, in the Parish Church of St George Hanover Square, Middlesex.[20]
Carteret John William Ellis Esquire a bachelor of this Parish and Emily Railton a Spinster a Minor of the Parish of St Mary le bone were married in this Church by licence by and with the consent of Margaret Maria Railton Widow the natural and lawful Mother of the said Minor this sixth day of July in the Year One Thousand eight Hundred and Thirty-One by me George Lionel Fraser Offg Minister. In the presence of John Ellis, Margaret Maria Railton, and Wm Railton.
Whilst residing in Paris, France, together they had 5 children:
Likely named after: William Molesworth (1810-1855), who was a colleague with his father, as a Justice of the Peace in Truro, and shared a residency with himself in 1841. [28]
1848 DEATHS Cornwall England Newspaper [29] JULY, 28 JULY 1848, Friday - At 5, Rue Street, Florentia, PARIS, on the 20th instant, Eveline Emily Caroline Penolva, only daughter of Carteret J W. ELLIS, Esq.
He died age 54, on October 04, 1858, [35] at Park-Road, [36] Clapham Park, Wandsworth, Surrey.[37] Burial 11 October 1858, [38] West Norwood Cemetery, London, Surrey.[39] Newspaper article [40]
Probate 20 October 1858. [41][42] Effects under £3000, Sole Executor James Dulling Esquire of Barnet in the County of Hertford.[43]
DEATHS.
On the 4th October, at Clapham Park, Surrey, C. J. W. Ellis, Esq., M.A , Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant of Cornwall, aged 54, eldest brother of Henry Wilfred Ellis, Esq., barrister-at- law, of Sydney.
EGBERT CARTERET SCOBELL ELLIS and HAROLD CHARLES HENRY NELSON ELLIS, named in Pursuant to an Order of the High Court of Chancery dated 28th January 1859, in the matter of the ESTATE of CARTERET JOHN WILLIAM ELLIS, late of Park-road.[44]
C W Ellis, Esq in entry for Lionel C F Ellis, Esq, Truro, Cornwall, England, Newspaper Archive, Family Notices [45]
Sacred to the memory of John Ellis, Esqr., a member of the English Bar, and a Magistrate of this county; who departed this life at Boulogne Sur Mer in France, on the 20th of Decr., 1831; in the 54th year of his age.
To record his worth, who to his family was “all in all” on earth; to express the sense they entertain of their irreparable loss, and to bear testimony to the great love they had for him, as well as to their hope of meeting him again in a happier life hereafter,—this tablet has been erected by his affectionate widow and children.
In memory of Harriet Buckmaster, of Windsor Castle Estate, Jamaica, and wife of the late John Ellis, Esqr., died 1843.
Streater Carteret John Ellis, eldest son. of Carteret J. W. Ellis, Esq. and Emily Ellis; born 29th April, 1832; died 8th May, 1838, deeply regetted.
Eveline Emily Caroline Penolva Ellis, the beloved and only daughter of Carteret J. W. Ellis, Esq. and Emily Ellis, born at Trengwainton 22nd March, 1839; died in Paris 6th July, 1848.
Carteret John William Ellis, Esq., magistrate and dep. Lieut. of this County; born 11 Septr., 1805; died 11 Octr., 1858.
Also in memory of Emily Ellis, youngest danghtcr of the late Isaac Railton Esq., of the Manor House, Calbeck, Cumberland, and Hertford Street, Mayfair, London, and Margaret Scott, daughter of Captain Scott, R.N., and the lovely accomplished wife of the late Carteret John William Ellis, Esqre., Deputy Lieutenant and Magistrate of the County of Cornwall; born 18th Septr., 1810; died 13th March, 1669 (1869); in the 59th year of her age. She died deeply regretted and beloved by all who knew her.
Court
Prerogative Court - Morning Herald (London) Newspaper, dated 14 May 1824, Ellis V Ellis, Will's dated 23d Sept 1820 and 18th Feb 1822 of Mr William Ellis, his nephews and nioces, William, George, and John Ellis, Mrs. Halford, and Miss Ellis. Mrs. Kempson - Newspaper notes her on the second will. Sir John Nicoll giving judgement.[47]
Mr Erskine moved on behalf of Messrs, Scobell, Tremainer, and Painter, Magistrates of the County of Cornwall, for a rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against Carteret Ellis, John Ellis, and Frederick Goddard, residing in the vicinity of Penzance. Carteret Ellis against whom he moved as the principal party in the transaction of which he complained, was the son of John Ellis, who had practised as an attorney, and , in the year 1823 had come to reside on certain lands the vicinity of Penzance, to which it was supposed he had a derived a right under a will. Mr John Ellis was without hesitation received by the Magistrates and gentlemen of the county into their society, as one upon whose character there was no imputation. But in 1824 rumours were circulating about a proceeding in the Ecclesiatical Court, respecting the very will under which John Ellis was supposed to hold the lands on which he resided, and in that year a report appeared in the newspapers, of a judgement pronounced by Sir John Nicholl, in a suit respecting this will, in which his sisters of Mr John Ellis, and another, were plaintiffs, and Mr John Ellis was defendant, and in that judgement Sir John Nicholl was represented as animadverting in severe terms on the conduct of the defendant, Mr John Ellis, in reference to the execution of the will, and as having ordered to pay the costs of the suit.
Mr. Scobell, one of the Magistrates on whose behalf he now moved, had an interview with John Ellis on the subject of these rumours, and Mr Ellis asserted that the imputations against his character were grossly false, and that it was his full intention to appeal against Sir John Nicholl, and the gentlemen still continued on friendly terms. A considerable time elapsed, and it did not appear that John taken any proceedings for the prosecution of the appeal, and the gentlemen began to withdraw their confidence from Mr. Ellis. Matters were in this situation when, in the year, 1826 John Ellis presented himself in order to get himself qualified as a Magistrate. The Magistrates directly declined qualifying him at that time, and adjourned the sitting to a future date, but before the day arrived they sent word to Mr. John Ellis, that, as long as the rumours against his character remained unexplained, that they must decline admitting him to qualify, and that they hoped that, in order to prevent the matter being made more public, John Ellis would refrain from presenting himself. Mr Ellis, however, chose to preserve, and that they had written to the Lord Lieutenant on the subject, and that, if it should be his Lordship's determination that he should be admitted aa a Magistrate, they could not prevent his qualifying.
In 1827, no proceedings were taken by Mr. Ellis to the delegates, although one of the Judges of Appeal had taken notice of the circumstance and animadverted upon it.
In 1828, Mr F Goddard presented a letter from Carteret Ellis, to Mr. Scobell, Mr Tremaineer who both refused to look at it, so he delivered it to Mr Painter, when it was found to contain a demand for an explanation, or for the satisfaction due to a gentleman. Mr Painter in reply to this , stated that, as Magistrates, acting on public grounds, they did not think themselves called upon to give either the explanation or the satisfaction required. Then on on 27th July 1828 Mr Scobell received Carteret's letter enclosed in Mr F Goddard letter, in which he intimated that now all communications must be made through him (Goddard). In the letter of Mr. C Ellis, the Magistrate was described as so mean, shuffling, paltry, base, and cowardly, that they had forfeited all claims to the society of gentlemen.
Magistrates thought it was there duty to bring these parties to court; and they now stated in their affidavitis that they had no share in raising or propagating the rumours against the character of Mr John Ellis, and they disclaimed all personal motives, and averred that they acted entirely on public grounds, and had no ill-will to Mr Ellis.
Portrait
Carteret John William Ellis (1805–1858), JP, Deputy Lieutenant for Cornwall, MA Portrait [50]
History of Parliament Online (http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/search/node/carteret%20John%20William%20ellis) ELLIS I, John (1812-?), of 50 Hereford Street, Grosvenor Square, London
... b . 21 Nov. 1812, 5 th s. of John Ellis, of Sennen, Cornw. ( d . 20 Dec. 1831), and Harriet, da. of ?John ... 1838; CJ , xciii. 84-5, 382. Ellis’s elder brother, Carteret John William Ellis, of Trengwainton, Cornwall, unsuccessfully ...
Census Research
1841 England Census[51]
Lowndes Square, St Luke Chelsea, Kensington, London & Middlesex, England
William Ellis
Registration Year: 1857
Registration Quarter: Jan-Feb-Mar
Registration District: Chelsea
Parishes for this Registration District: View Ecclesiastical Parishes associated with this Registration District
Inferred County: London
Volume: 1a
Page: 987
↑ Will of Carteret's father John Ellis, of James Street Buckingham Gate , Middlesex, probate: 7 Jan 1832, Widow Harriott, sons Carteret John William Ellis, Edward Ellis, Frederick Adam Ellis, Francis Ellis, John Ellis and Arthur Ellis.
The National Archives; Kew, Surrey, England; Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Series PROB 11; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 1794,(https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D246106 assessed 4th April 2021).
↑ Will of Carteret's Great-Uncle: William Ellis of North Street Westminster , Middlesex, Reference: PROB 11/1654/338, Will of William Ellis of North Street Westminster , Middlesex, Date: 21 March 1822, Held by: The National Archives, Kew, (https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D147215 assessed 7th August 2021). Bottom of (page 4/7) my said nephew John Ellis .... in which his said sons the said Carteret John William Ellis, Frederick Adam Ellis, Francis Ellis, John Ellis, Arthur Ellis, Edward Waterloo Ellis and Henry Wilfred Ellis.
↑ The Nautical Magazine a Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with .. page 558, Naval Chronicle, Google Books, (https://books.google.co.uk/books), Carteret J. W. Ellis
↑ London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932. Church of England Parish Registers. London Metropolitan Archives, London, England; Reference Number: DL/T/089/026, (https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/10034561:1623 assessed 4th April 2021)).
↑ "France, Naissance et baptêmes, 1546-1896", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F93X-LYV : 13 September 2019), Jno. Wm. Ellis in entry for Streater Carteret John Ellis, 1832.
↑ "England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQKZ-8XN : 11 December 2014), Carteret Jno William Ellis in entry for Streater Carteret John Ellis, 17 May 1832, Baptism; citing p. 37, Boulogne, France, record group RG33, Public Record Office, London.
↑ "England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQTR-256 : 11 December 2014), Carteret John William Ellis in entry for Milesworth Lionel Carteret Frederick Ellis, 17 Jan 1841, Baptism; citing p. 155, Paris, France, record group RG33, Public Record Office, London.
↑ Ancestry.com. 1841 England Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010.
Original data: Census Returns of England and Wales, 1841. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1841. Data imaged from the National Archives, London, England. Class: HO107; Piece: 687; Book: 3; Civil Parish: Chelsea; County: Middlesex; Enumeration District: 1; Folio: 22; Page: 38; Line: 9; GSU roll: 438803, (https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=8978&h=7491495&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=4829 assessed 4th April 2021).
↑ Ellis v Ellis, :C 14/1319/E36,1852 E36. Documents: Bill, traversing note, replication, consent, certificate, Plaintiffs: Emily Ellis wife of Carteret John William Ellis by William Railton her next friend and others, Defendants: Carteret John William Ellis, William Railton (deleted), Frederick Adam Ellis (abroad), The National Archives, Kew,(https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7942571 assessed March 2021).)
↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JWMX-GRW : 21 March 2020), Carteret_ John William Ellis in entry for Egbert Scobell Ellis, 1852.
↑ "England, Hampshire Parish Registers, 1538-1980," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPR8-YWDQ : 13 February 2021), Carteret John William Ellis in entry for Egbert Scobell Ellis, 5 Oct 1852; citing Christening, , Lancashire Record Office and Hampshire Record Office, England; FHL microfilm .
↑ "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2NVL-9SS : 31 December 2014), Carteret John William Ellis, 1858; from "England & Wales Deaths, 1837-2006," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Death, Wandsworth, London, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.
↑ (Carh John William Ellis, Registration Year: 1858, Registration Quarter: Oct-Nov-Dec, Registration District: Wandsworth, London, Vol: 1d, Page: 301, FreeBMD. England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
Original data: General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England (https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=8914&h=10547276&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=1904 assessed 4th April 2021).
↑ "England, Surrey Parish Registers, 1536-1992," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGZR-Z3GG : 19 April 2018), Cardereth John William Ellis, 11 Oct 1858; citing Burial, , London Metropolitan Archives, England; FHL microfilm 1,519,180.
↑ "England and Wales, National Index of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1957," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPJS-4NNT : 30 August 2018), Carteret John William Ellis, 20 Oct 1858; citing Probate, England, United Kingdom, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Great Britain.; FHL microfilm .
↑ "British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPC2-H1DW : 18 April 2019), C W Ellis, Esq in entry for Lionel C F Ellis, Esq, Truro, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom; records extracted FamilySearch and images digitized by FindMyPast; citing Truro, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, 10 Feb 1870, The British Newspaper Archive, Ireland; FHL microfilm .
↑ Carteret John William Ellis (1805–1858), JP, Deputy Lieutenant for Cornwall 1840, MA, Trinity College, Cambridge, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth, Photo credit: Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Coraly de Fourmond (1803–1853) painted: 1830–1853, Acquisition gift from Mrs A. J. Ellis, 1954.
↑ Ancestry.com. 1841 England Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010.
Original data: Census Returns of England and Wales, 1841. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1841. Data imaged from the National Archives, London, England. Class: HO107; Piece: 687; Book: 3; Civil Parish: Chelsea; County: Middlesex; Enumeration District: 1; Folio: 22; Page: 38; Line: 9; GSU roll: 438803, (https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=8978&h=7491495&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=4829 assessed 4th April 2021).
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No. I mean that the art gallery has him dead in 1853, not 1858. It is quite clear. I think it is possible they have mixed him up with the artist, who supposedly died in 1853. (Coraly de Fourmond (1803–1853))
Carteret John William Ellis (1805–1853), JP, Deputy Lieutenant for Cornwall, MA
Carteret John William Ellis (1805–1853), JP, Deputy Lieutenant for Cornwall, MA