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Surnames: Carlyle / Ellis
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Linda
I would be very interested in finding more on the Carlyle's.
Janet Carlyle was my GGGrandmother she was Married to J.R.Ellis. and was quite an
exceptional Oil Painter we have a few pieces of her work in the Family . The info below
is a story on the Ellis Family . Who Lived in Mount Pleasant Ontario outside of
Brantford. the only difference in the story is what her mother's name was in the
article they have her name as Margret Bend.and you say Benn.
J. R. ELLIS, Postmaster at Mount Pleasant, Township of Brantford, was born about one mile
east of the present post office, Sept. 11th, 1810, and is a son of Allin Ellis, a native
of "big Bend' Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania, where he was born in 1788. He
again was the son of Henry Ellis, who came to canada in 1800, settling on a farm of 200
acres, on Lot 7, east side of the mount Pleasant road. He was a weaver by trade, an
occupation he followed up to his death in january, 1831. His farm was the first to exist
on the 4,000 acre tract of land which was surveyed and laid out by Captain Joseph Brant,
and was at that time a portion of the Gore District, in the Township of Haldimand, County
of Wentworth. Henry Ellis was by birth a Welshman, and a descendant of the Earl of
Strambeau, whose crest was a castle with two swords. He married margaret Mahan, a native
of Donegal, Ireland. They were the parents of several children, four of whom came to
Canada- now all deceased. Mrs. Ellis!
died during the War of 1812. One son, Allin, father of our subject, was the seventh son.
He was twelve years of age when he came to Canada, and was reared on the home farm. He was
a natural physician, and held in much requisition in early days, as he proved himself a
valuable friend to the sick. When the War of 1812 broke out the grandfather and his sons
offered their services to assist in repelling the invading foe, but the former was seized
with camp fever, and compelled to return home. His wife, in washing his clothes,
contracted the disease and died of it. Allin Ellis was one of these volunteers, and drove
a yoke of oxen at the battle of Lundy's Lane, serving under the command of captain
Thomas Perrin, nicknamed "Barefoot," because, on training days, he was wont to
drill his company in his bare feet. Allin was engaged in farming till the day of his
death, in September, 1849. He married Hannah Sturgis, from Pennsylvania, who died February
15th, 1874. She was a daughter !
of Amos Sturgis, of Upper Miriam, Chester County, Pennsylvania, who wa
s a Captain in the Continental army, Under General Washington. Rachel Randall, her mother,
was born in Philadelphia, in 1757, died in 1814. Amos Sturgis was a son of thomas Sturgis,
also a native of Philadelphia, born there in 1722, died in 1802; and those two sons, Amos
and Thomas Sturgis, came to Canada along with the Ellis family. To Mr. and Mrs. Allin
Ellis were born four boys and eight girls, and of these three boys only are now living-
Henry in Chicago Ill.; J. L. and A. W., both in Mount Pleasant. John R. Ellis was reared
on the farm, and worked on the homestead farm till he became of age, when he learned the
trade of carpenter and worked at it for some years. He erected his own residence, as well
as those of george Bryce and Herbert Biggar; subsequently he applied himself to the
cabinet-making business for a period of 35 to 40 years. In September, 1880, he received
the appointment, under Sir John Mcdonald's administration, of Postmaster at Mount
Pleasant. Mr. Ellis, !
who is a Conservative in politics, has never held any other office of consequence. He
married December 25th, 1844, Janet Carlyle, a native of Cumberland, England, and daughter
of John Carlyle, a half brother of thomas Carlyle. Her mother was Margaret Bend, an
English lady. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis had a family of six children, three of them dying in
infancy, and three boys are living: John Fitz Allin, the oldest son, is a member of the
firm of Barber & Ellis, bookbinders and manufacturers of envelopes; Robert Baldwin, a
broker in Toronto, and W. R., manufacturer of mackinaw hats , Detroit. Nettie, an adopted
daughter, is at home with Mr. and Mrs. Ellis. Mr. E. was formerly a member of the
Congregational Church in Brantford, and his wife attends the Canada Methodist church,
Mount Pleasant. A. W., the second son of Allin Ellis, was born on the home farm, May 11th,
1819, and has been engaged in farming all his life. He lived on the old homestead until he
sold it, when he bought prop!
erty in Mount Pleasant, a farm of fifty acres. He is a Reformer in pol
itics, and has been Trustee of the Village Grammar School for nine years. Has also acted
as Returning Officer since 1879, and was married July 1st, 1852, to Isabella McDonald, a
native of Glasgow, Scotland, who came to Canada with her widowed mother. They have a
family of eight children- Isabella, wife of Archibald St. Clair, hardware merchant,
Paisley, Ontario; James, at home; Alexander, book-keeper, for the Canada Paper
Manufacturing Company, Toronto; Albert E., book-keeper for William Patterson, Belleville,
Ont.; William Walllace, with W. F. Cockshutt, hardware merchant, Brantford; Martha S.,
Herbert H., and Julia M., all three at home. Mrs. A. W. Ellis is a member of the
Presbyterian church of Mount Pleasant.
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