{"id":30140,"date":"2026-10-29T02:22:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T02:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jmhartley.com\/HBlog\/?p=30140"},"modified":"2026-10-29T02:22:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T02:22:29","slug":"some-new-sheffield-ellis-thrulines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jmhartley.com\/HBlog\/2026\/10\/29\/some-new-sheffield-ellis-thrulines\/","title":{"rendered":"Some New Sheffield Ellis ThruLines"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lot of what I do is look at Ancestry ThruLines and try to figure out if they make sense by genealogy. If they do, I put them into a DNA tree. I was using these DNA Trees before Anestry came up with the ThruLines, so I am very familiar with the concept.<\/p>\n

An Ellis ThruLIne<\/h2>\n

Here is one I saw just recently with my sister Heidi:<\/p>\n

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Diane has a pretty good Ancestry Tree:<\/p>\n

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Diane has traced her maternal line back to Ellis and Roebuck.<\/p>\n

In 2023, I see that I had this Ellis DNA Tree:<\/p>\n

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When I check my later mother’s ThruLines, I see Diane there also:<\/p>\n

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Then there is Russell who is not in my Ellis DNA Tree. I may look into him later.<\/p>\n

I have started a floating tree for Diane. Here is Charlotte Ellis, her grandmother:<\/p>\n

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Charlotte’s father is listed as Henry. Here is the family in 1901:<\/p>\n

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Charlotte’s father’s occupation had something to do with the spring knife:<\/p>\n

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This looks to be Henry’s marriage record:<\/p>\n

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At this point, it would make sense to connect Henry to the James I have in my tree. This will merge Diane into my tree.<\/p>\n

Next, I need to update my Ellis DNA Tree:<\/p>\n

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Rusell<\/h2>\n

I am surprised that I have not looked into Russell before. Russell’s Tree leads back to James Ellis:<\/p>\n

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However, his James was born in 1801 and married to Jane instead of Caroline. The James that Russell has as his ancestor was a scissors manufacturer born in Eccleshall and living in Hollis Croft in 1851:<\/p>\n

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The James in my DNA Tree does not show that he had a daughter named Elizabeth in 1851:<\/p>\n

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I can build a floating tree for Russell to try to figure out what is going on. Perhaps the connection goes further back.<\/p>\n

Looking more closely into Russell’s Tree, I see that he has two Ellis lines:<\/p>\n

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I saw from shared matches between my Mom and Russell that the Lockwood name was coming up, so I looked further down the Russell’s Lockwood Line and found Charles Ellis. This must be the connection.<\/p>\n

A Floating Tree for Russell<\/h3>\n

I will build a floating tree for Russell that most likely will be connected to my tree. Russell’s father makes it onto this 1939 Sheffield Register:<\/p>\n

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Here is the marriage record for Russell’s paternal grandparents:<\/p>\n

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Russell’s great-grandfather William Henry was a night watchman in 1911 at a silver hardware manufacturer:<\/p>\n

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Notice that the eldest son is Frederick.<\/p>\n

Here is the family in 1891:<\/p>\n

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It seems our line of Ellises were pen and pocket blade grinders. I have Frederick’s mother in my Tree – Emma. I just need to add the Emma in my tree to the Frederick in my floating tree and that should connect the two trees.<\/p>\n

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According to my Ellis DNA Tree, the right candidate is the one born in 1831. It looks like I never added the right Thomas Lockwood to my tree.<\/p>\n

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This record closes the loop:<\/p>\n

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Here is the middle of Meadow Street, Sheffield on a modern map:<\/p>\n

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Emma Ellis lived there in 1851. For comparison, here is Morpeth Street:<\/p>\n

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Earlier in the Blog, I had Harry or Henry Ellis and his daughter Charlotte living there in 1901.<\/p>\n

Adding Russell to the Ellis DNA Tree<\/h4>\n

Before I do that, I will look at the 1881 Census:<\/p>\n

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This shows that Emily was a year older than Fred.<\/p>\n

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All this makes me wish I knew who the father was for Charles Ellis. I checked the Sheffield Indexers Website and didn’t see any baptisms for a Charles ellis around 1795. I believe that he was from Thorne. Also they may have been non-comformists which complicatetes matters. This seems like a possibility from 14 June 1795:<\/p>\n

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The other option appears to be in Snaith;<\/p>\n

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So Charles could have been the son of a farmer from Snaith or the son of a cutler from Sheffield. In the Ellis DNA Tree above, it appears that Thorne refers to Charles’ wife. So I would go with the cutler parents from Sheffield.<\/p>\n

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I probably have not added a new ancestor in quite a while.<\/p>\n

This would make sense for the parents:<\/p>\n

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Here is Rotherham:<\/p>\n

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I’ll take a guess at this baptism for Sarah:<\/p>\n

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Here, I have built out a family for Charles and Sarah Ellis:<\/p>\n

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The Banns for the marriage indicate that Charles was also from Rotherham:<\/p>\n

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Summary and Conclusions<\/h2>\n