Ellenwood Family Geneology
25 March 2008 21:38:20
My uncle has long been collecting and collating a wealth of information about my family history and has put together a fairly comprehensive family tree going back about five generations. I’ve recently become interested in what he has compiled and actually posted an outline of it online at Geni a free family tree website. (If you’re interested, you can take a look at our public tree.)
But we’re stuck. In the Ellenwood line, we can’t seem to get any further back than my third-great-grandfather, John S(tark?) Ellenwood. I believe I have connected his wife, Sophia (Wilson) to another family tree through ancestry.com, but I’m most interested in tracing the Ellenwood family name.
After looking at scans of orignal U.S. Census records from the mid-1800′s I am quite confident that John S. Ellenwood was born in Maine right around 1810 and resided for at least 20-30 years in Pelham, New Hampshire employed as a stone cutter. His son Alonzo is my second-great-grandfather and from there, my family has a fairly solid view of our lineage. Anyone know anything more about John S. Ellenwood of Pelham, NH? I’d love to hear from you!
13 June 2009 12:22:06
Hello – I can point you in a good direction for your Ellenwood line. Check familysearch.org and search for the children of Benjamin Ellenwood and Nancy (just fill in the parents’ names and nothing else). It gives John Starks Ellenwood and his siblings with birth dates in Belfast, ME, but no sources for the info. There was a family group in Frankfort, ME, same county, and Benjamin was supposedly married there to Nancy Ayer. I speculate, due to circumstance, that his parents were Richard and Sarah (Slater) of Boston, before moving to Waldo Co., and before that Israel Ellenwood/Ellinwood and Susannah Rand of Beverly then Boston, Ralph Ellinwood and Sarah Woodbury, Ralph and Martha Rowlandson, and finally Ralph and Eleanor Lynn. Much can be found on these folks at familysearch.org (although not reliable accuracy), also in the Boston and Beverly, MA, vital records. Censuses should also help place the Boston and Waldo Co., ME, family groups together. I haven’t done any in-depth research on this line, but I’ve been gathering general info on Ellinwood/Ellenwood/Ellingwood descendants. I’m descended from Ralph the immigrant’s son Benjamin, the last of that name in my line was my grandmother. Hope that makes some sense!
Doug
15 June 2009 9:57:19
Doug, thanks for the feedback. I’ve actually had a pretty solid breakthrough regarding my Ellenwood line. Not too long after this post last year I sent a letter to someone listed as the original contributor for a record on familysearch.org. She in turn wrote me back and provided me with a boatload of information on the Ellenwood family line (over 100 notated pages worth!) From her generous information I have been able to directly trace my line back to Ralph Ellenwood. You can see that lineage by visiting the “…public tree” link in the first paragraph of my original post. Just zoom out to see more of the tree and drag the view all the way to the left side and follow the left-most line back from me all the way to Ralph. You can also view our tree at: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=ellenwood
Thanks again for your feedback!
DaveE
31 August 2009 15:38:37
There is a published volume called
Ellenwood-Wharton & Twenty families 1620-1968 that can be found in public libraries