Liverpool Death 1829-1830

[redkop]

Hi Hutchin,

I have been to the church today. I found the grave, and have taken some pictures. All the stones lay down flat. And, because I am only 5' tall they are on a slight angle. lol.

I don't know if you know, but I found another stone, I think belongs to you. It is the stone of Lister Ellis's son, Henry, age 14 months. I took photographs of this also. If you pm me your email address, I will send them on to you.

Red   

[redkop]

I forgot to tell you. In the same grave yard I found a Mr. J Ellis Lister!!

Confused me no end, i can tell you 

Red   

[Hutchin_Graham]

Hi Red,
           my initial reaction is " who the Hell is THAT?"
 but after quite a bit of thought, my more considered reaction
 is "who the Hell IS that?" 

Well, Watson, the game is afoot! ( I'll not sleep 'till I know)

Thanks again Red,
                             Hutchin.

[redkop]

Hutchin,

I was so confused, when I went to the RO a few days ago, I actually found a photo of him and I copied it. When I got home, I realised my mistake, and deleted it. So, he must be someone quite important.

Red   

[redkop]

Hi Hutchin,

I think I have found something else. 

Do you know a Lieut L. F. Ellis? I nearly got him mixed up with Lister again!! Only the date was wrong.   

This guy was awarded the D.S.O. in 1918. I mistook him, because the piece in the newspaper makes reference to him working in the bank!! 

Red   

[redkop]

Hi Hutchin,

could you pm me your email addy please. I seem to have lost it. 

ta,

red 

[lierbag]

The descendancy of Lister Ellis (d. 1828) is of interest to me, as my brother in law is a (Liverpool-born) direct descendant of this individual, and I've been researching his family history for him. What I find particularly intriguing, is the mystery of Graham Lister Ellis (grandson of Lister Ellis), who disappears from the records in about 1901 - his family having been, at least up to 1891, quite comfortably well off (he being an architect/surveyor by profession) - but seemingly he had left his family in the lurch, with most of them ending up working as porters at Liverpool Docks! At first, I presumed Graham Lister Ellis had died, or had maybe even ended up in prison, but with the recent release of the 1911 census, I found that he was very much still alive and living somewhere up the Lancashire coast. Does anyone have any light they could cast on this curious turn of events? Many thanks.

[Henry7]

Hi Hutchin -

You said Lister Ellis lived at No 5 Rodney Street. Just looked up a directory of Liverpool published in 1824 (so probably correct for 1823) where he's living at No 2 Rodney Street. At that time a Revd Richard Cardwell was living at No 5.

He's mentioned a lot in histories of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway of course, but only Robert E Carlson's 'Liverpool & Manchester Railway Project 1821-1831' (1969) mentions his death, and gets it slightly wrong. He says "February 1829".

Harry.

[ShaunJ]

Liverpool Mercury for Friday 5 March 1829 news item:

DIED - Yesterday, at his house,  in Rodney Street, Lister Ellis,esq, in his 51st year

and a death announcement for his son in the same paper on 12 August 1878

ELLIS: August 10 at Southport aged 65 Lister Ellis late of Rodney Street and Douglas Isle of Man . No Cards