Maria Rowntree Explained

Maria Rowntree
Father:	John Rowntree
Mother:	Jane Priestman
Relatives:	Joshua Rowntree (brother)
Birth Date:	5 August 1848
Birth Place:	Scarborough
Death Place:	Scalby

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

1. Book: Bassett , Arthur Tilney . The life of the Rt. Hon. John Edward Ellis, M. P.. 1914. Macmillan. London. 27. 12 April 2020. 1048333618.
2. Book: Mina Hubbard. Leonidas Hubbard. Anne Hart. Woman Who Mapped Labrador: The Life and Expedition Diary of Mina Hubbard. 2005. McGill-Queen's Press. 0773529241. 360.
3. Bassett, p51