Maria Rowntree
Maria Rowntree | |
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| Born | 5 August 1848 |
| Died | 3 March 1941 (aged 92) |
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| Relatives | Joshua Rowntree (brother) |
Maria (5 August 1848 in Scarborough – 3 March 1941 in Scalby), the youngest daughter of Quaker John Rowntree, a grocer in Scarborough, and Jane Priestman.
In 1867, she married John Ellis in the Friends Meeting House in Scarborough.
Maria had 5 children:
- John Rowntree Ellis, born 1868, died 1889 of rheumatic fever
- Arthur Edward Ellis born 1870, committed suicide in 1891
- Harold Thornton Ellis, born 1875
- twin daughters, Marian Emily and Edith Ellis, born 1878.
Wrea Head Hall in Scalby was built during 1881-2 and the family moved there from Nottingham in April 1883.
Maria died on 3 March 1941 in Scalby.