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!