'Ellis06'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Ellis of Chester, Ellis of Overleigh

                               
Dio ap Griffith
m. ?? (sister of William Goch , Sheriff of Chester (a 1463))
1. Ellis ap Dio (d 1523-4)
  m. ?? (dau of Jenkyn ap Blethyn, sister of David & James)
  A. Matthew (ap) Ellis of Overleigh (d 06.02.1548-9)
m1. Alice (d 1537, widow of Ellis ap Tudor)
  i.+ issue
  m2. Mary Dutton (dau of Sir Piers Dutton of Dutton)
  ii. Matthew Ellis (a 1546, d 20.04.1574)
  m1. Elizabeth Brown (d 1570, dau of Thomas Brown of Netherlegh)
a. Matthew Ellis (b 08.1567?, d 13.07.1613)
  m. Katherine Allen (d 11.01.1671, dau of Ralph Allen of Chester, m2. Matthew Browne, m3. Randle Holme)
  (1) Matthew Ellis
  m. Elizabeth Judson of Namptwich
  (A) Matthew Ellis (b c1639, a 1670, 2nd son)
  m. Anne Birkenhead (dau of John Birkenhead of Backford)
  (i)+ issue - Matthew, Anne
  (B) Katherine Ellis
  m. Henry Grey of Handbridge
  (C)+ other issue - Randle (dsp), Henry, Joseph, William, Sarah, Amy
  (2) Katherine Ellis
  m. Randle Holme of Chester
  (3) Amy Ellis
m. Alexander Bird of Chester
  m2. Margery
  iii. Julian Ellis
  m1. (dvi) _ Hope of Bruershall
  a.+ issue
  m2. John Clippesley of Clippesley (Clipsbye of Clipsbye)
  iv. Margery Ellis
  m. _ Knight of Handbridge
  B. Joan Ellis (a 1548)
  m. _ Taylor (d by 1548)
  C. Elizabeth Ellis
  m1. Thomas Browne (son of Richard of Netherleigh)
  m2. (c1524) Thomas Govet
2. William ap Dio (a 1482)

Main source(s): 'The history of the church and parish of St. Mary-on-the-Hill' (J.P. Earwalker (edited by Rupert Morris, 1898), 'Ellis of Overleigh and Chester', p275)
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