THE ELLERYS Of REDRUTH by Lorin Ellery Berryman (Thanks to Bill Ellery for sending this) any additions from the original are given in red text JOHN ELLERY, believed born ca. 1680-85, place unknown, was our fifth Great-grandfather Ellery and the earliest known ancestor in that family tine. About all that is known of him is that he was of Redruth Parish and that his wife was Prudence. It is judged that they were married ca. 1710 since their first known child, John, was christened on 13 September 1712 at Redruth. This child died at about 8 years of age and was buried at Redruth on 16 May 1720. Other known children were Honour, ca. 30 January 1716; a second John, c. 6 June 1720; and Henry, c. 3 May 1724. It is interesting to note that the second John was christened, and presumably born; less than a month after the death of the first John.
Nothing is known of the son Henry. Honour married a Richard Gilbert on 16 July 1741 at Redruth. John, c. 6 June 1720, was our fourth Great-grandfather Ellery. He married Joan Cocking at Redruth on 3 February 1744. As shown in the following diagram, John and Joan Ellery had quite a large family. Due to some intergenerational relationships, the diagram also shows the family of third Great-grandparents John and Elizabeth Notwell Ellery of Redruth.
All of the children of fourth great-grandparents John and Joan Cocking Ellery were born in Redruth Parish. Henry, c. 24 August 1745, and Honour, c. 20 February 1748, undoubtedly died at early ages since these names were reused for children born later on.
Elizabeth, c. 24 August 1750, married Peter Michel (Mitchell) on 13 Jan 1777. Prudence married Joseph Thomas at Redruth and there were five children, William, Joseph, Joan, Betsy, and Prudence.
Henry, c. 19 May 1755, married Elizabeth ? It is judged that he acquired wealth through his marriage he was ranked as "gentleman" and held estates in Redruth and Crowan Parishes, as well as other properties in Redruth. Historically, "gentleman" indicated a rank just above "yeoman." Crowan Parish is to the southwest just across the southern parts of Illogan and Camborne parishes from Redruth.
John Ellery, c. 5 February 1759, was our third great-grandfather Ellery. He married Elizabeth Notwell of Mylor. Neither John nor Elizabeth could sign their names to the marriage record. Francis Notwell and John Champion were witnesses to the marriage. In the early days, there was a naval dockyard at Mylor just on the west side of Carrick Road and perhaps eight mites southeast of Redruth. There ships took on water, other stores, and shot. There was also a Royal cooperage and an Admiralty cemetery. Later, mail packets were copper-bottomed and otherwise repaired in the dockyard.
Nothing is known of Nicholas c. 6 December 1761. Honour, c. 11 June 1764, married secondly to William Polkinhorn and there were four children: William, Henry, Stephen and Sally.
Ann, c. 29 May 1768 married William Gribble at Redruth on 4 February1788. There were three known children of this marriage: William, Mary Ann, and Henry. Also had Jenefer, Joseph, Elizabeth and a second Jenefer
Henry Ellery, Gentleman, died 3 July 1819 and we have information from his will, which was dated 20 May 1819 and proved 7 July 1819. The will indicated that he had no children It provided that his wife receive an annuity out of his leasehold estate called Tolgus in Redruth Parish. His brother John, our third great-grandfather, was left an annuity out of his estate at Kirton in Crowan Parish. His sister, Elizabeth Michel, or Mitchell, received an annuity paid out of leasehold houses in Redruth. Sister Ann Gribble received an annuity to be paid out of his Moiety of Tolgus Mill ["Moiety" indicates an indefinite share]. Also mentioned in the will, presumably for some bequest, were the children of brother John (our third great-grandfather); a grandnephew William Pearce of Redruth; the children of Honour Ellery Polkinhorn; the children of Prudence Ellery Thomas; and the children of Ann Ellery Gribble. "John the younger," 'natural son' of our third great-grandfather John Ellery, was also mentioned for some bequest. The rest and residue of the estate was left to Henry, the son of nephew Henry Ellery, the eldest son of third great-grandparents Ellery. "If he should die beforehand," the residue was to go to Henry, "son of said John Ellery the younger who now lives in Camborne." Henry, the son of nephew Henry Ellery, was the execuor of the will.
From the date of the marriage and the christening of the first child, it is obvious that Margaret Uren was pregnant before being married. The eldest son, William Joseph, was our great-grandfather Ellery. Nothing is known of the son Joseph, christened 26 September 1827; Henry, christened 15 January 1832; or John, christened 12 August 1841. Since there was also a John Ellery, christened 12 Nov 1829, it would be assumed that he died early on and the forename was reused in 1841. This, however, was not the case in the Joseph Ellery family. John Ellery, christened in 1829, was born in 1826. On 29 March 1849, at 23 years of age, he was convicted of theft in Crown Court at Bodmin and sentenced to ten years transportation to Western Australia. What is known of John Ellery, Prisoner of Mother England, is contained in the following chapter entitled, "The Australian and New Zealand Connections."
In earlier times in Cornwall, it was not common, but It was not unusual for a family to have two living children with the same forename. Usually, as mentioned above, a given forename of a child who died might be reused for another child born later on. It will be recalled that the Camborne-Redruth area was a place of rampant high crime and misdemeanour among juveniles as well as adults in the l9th Century. Thus, it is judged that the first John Ellery became involved in some sort of activity that caused his family to disown him and ultimately name another child in his place.
Elizabeth Ellery, christened 20 August 1833 married Henry (?) Lockett and they lived in the Mount Ambrose area near Redruth. There were no children. Elizabeth Ellery was courted by Richard Teague in Cornwall before he went to California in 1868. It was planned that he would send money for Elizabeth's passage to America as soon as he was able. Money for the passage was not sent until 1878 and by this time Elizabeth had tired of waiting and married, apparently without telling Richard Teague. By some unknown rationale, the Ellerys in Cornwall decided to send Ann, the younger sister of Elizabeth, to marry Richard Teague in America. Ann sailed "round-the-horn" to San Francisco and thence by train or river boat to Stockton where she met Richard Teague, who had travelled to Stockton from Tuolumne County, ostensibly to meet Elizabeth. It is most difficult to imagine his astonishment when he found Ann and not Elizabeth. Nevertheless, he and Ann were married in Stockton on 24 August 1878.
The Teagues had six children, three girls and three boys, only one of whom, Annie Ellery, survived She was born at Grizzley Mine in Tuolumne County on 26 June 1879. In addition to Tuolumne County, the family lived in Tombstone, Arizona, and Nevada City, Nevada County, California, but was back in Tuolumne County when Richard Teague died in 1902. The early days of Richard and Ann Ellery Teague in Tuolumne County are described by Annie Teague in a cassette tape made by her lifelong friend Marie Rozier of Tuolumne. A transcription of part of the tape follows:
"It is hard to imagine the difficulties experienced by my mother (Annie Teague said) coming from England, where they had gas lights, to an isolated canyon where the Grizzly Mine was located, where there were only candles to use. Perhaps they had coal at the mine, I don't know.
"I was the second child born at the Grizzly Mine. At that time there were still Indians in the area, and my mother had never experienced Indians. They were very much interested in the gold dust from the mill, and at one time came down in a large group and stole the gold dust from the mill. She had never seen so many Indians, and was very alarmed.
"She told me about hearing the California Lion scream just like a woman crying. Even though it was on the other side of the canyon, it was frightening.
"She had never used pitch to start a fire, so at one time she put in a large piece of pitch, and the stove became red hot, and almost burned the house down. fortunately, she was somehow able to retrieve the piece of pitch, and threw it outside, where it almost started a forest fire."
Both Annie Teague and her mother, Ann Ellery Teague, were diminutive in stature. Neither was over five feet tall. In our family they were referred to as "Cousin Annie" and Auntie Teague" using the surname rather than the given name. Annie taught school for many years, moving to Oakland City Schools in 1913, retiring in 1944. She died at the age of 90 years. '
Descendants of this line include.. Sharon Withers Gavin Burn Bill Ellery Ellery researchers page back to W. J. ELLERY back to famous ELLERYS
