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The online archives of the London Gazette comprise of a search facility and PDF images of the original newspaper, and the most interesting mentions of Ellerton are summarised below.

Note: The details in square brackets [ ] are my own observations, including references to pages on my website, eg. [EG4-1-1.htm].


1665-1804: No known entries for "Ellerton"

5th March 1805, page 305
Notice: The partnership of Messrs C Sharp, Thomas Ellerton, and Richard Sibley, of Bartholemew-Close, London, Working Silversmiths dissolved by mutual consent.

29th October 1811, page 2100
Notice: The partnership of Robert Abbott, Francis Ellerton, and John Crossley, at Halifax, Carpet Manufacturers, (under the firm of Abbott, Crossley and Co.) dissolved by mutual consent. The same business will in future be carried on by Robert Abbott and Francis Ellerton, under the firm of Abbott and Ellerton

2nd November 1811, page 2123
Notice: The partnership of John Baxter (of Inglewood House, Heskett, Cumberland) and Robert Abbott (of Halifax), Woolstaplers, under the firm of Baxter and Abbott dissolved by mutual consent. All debts due to and owing by said firm will be received and paid by Mr Francis Ellerton of Halifax, Woolstapler.

9th February 1819, page 269
Notice: "The Copartnership carried on at Richmond ... under the firm of Ellerton and Richardson, in the trade or business of Mercers and Linen and Woollen-Drapers, has been this day dissolved by mutual consent... the business will be carried on in future under the firm of William and Isaac Richardson.... Witness our hands this 18th day of January 1819. Elizth. Ellerton, W N Fall, E Ellerton, P Brackenbury, Executrix and Executors of Mr Richard Ellerton, deceased.  William Richardson".

20th February 1821, page 461
Petition of insolvent debtors to be heard at the Castle of York on 14th March: Francis Ellerton, late of Kirklington, near Bedale, farmer.

10th November 1821, page 2211
Notice: The partnership carried on between Robert Abbott and Francis Ellerton, as carpet manufacturers at Halifax, under the firm of Abbott and Ellerton is dissolved by mutual consent.

27th May 1834, page 967
Notice: The partnership subsisting between George Ellerton and James Henderson, of Gough-Square in the City of London, Letter-Press Printers, was dissolved by mutual consent on 30th November 1833.

29th January 1836, page 169
War Office - 14th Regiment of Foot, Richard Ellerton, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Carleton, who retires.

15th June 1838, page 1362
Whitehall: The Queen has been pleased to grant unto John Lodge, of Bodsilin, Carnarvon, eldest son and heir of Adam Lodge, late of the same place, Esq. deceased, her royal license and authority, that he and his issue may, in compliance with a special wish and request of his late father and as a mark of respect for the memory of his paternal grandmother, as well of his great uncle Giles Ellerton, of Ellerton, in the county of York, Esq. deceased, take and use the surname of Ellerton, in addition to and after that of Lodge, and that he and they may bear the arms of Ellerton quarterly, in the first quarter, with his and their own family arms, such arms being first duly exemplified according to the laws of arms, and recorded in the Heralds' Office, ... and also to command that the said royal concession and declaration be registered in Her Majesty's College of Arms.

30th January 1844, page 315
The partnership between Jos. Ellerton and Joseph Carter, carrying on business in Liverpool, under the style or firm of Ellerton and Carter was dissolved by mutual consent.

13th February 1844, page 496
The Copartnership of John Ellerton and Thos. C. Knell, under the firm of Ellerton and Knell, Warehousemen, 33 Lawrence Lane, London, was dissolved by mutual consent.

27th September 1844, page 3369
The partnership between Edward Rigmaiden and John Ellerton, Ale and Porter Merchants in Mersey-chambers, Old Church-yard, Liverpool under the firm or style of Rigmaiden and Ellerton was dissolved on 5/8/1842 by mutual consent.

30th March 1860, page 1256
HM Commissioners of Lieutenancy for the City of London - London Rifle Volunteer Brigade: John Ellerton Pawson, Esq., to be Captain.

26th July 1861, page 3173
The partnership between William Ellerton and William Wormald as General Commission Agents and Brokers at Liverpool under the style of Ellerton and Wormald was dissolved by mutual consent.

3rd May 1864, page 2401
HM Commissioners of Lieutenancy for the City of London - London Rifle Volunteer Brigade: John Ellerton Pawson, Esq., to be Major.

2nd February 1866, page 618
Charles Foy (previously of Hyde and formerly of Liverpool, Actor) and George Ellerton (previously of Liverpool and Earlstown, Actor) of Market-ground, King-street, Dukinfield, Chester, proprietors of the Royal Ampitheatre, having been adjudged bankrupts were required to surrender themselves to the Court of Bankruptcy in Manchester at the first meeting of creditors.

31st July 1866, page 4300
HM Commissioners of Lieutenancy for the City of London - London Rifle Volunteer Brigade: John Ellerton Pawson, Esq., to be Lieutenant.

5th March 1869, page 1568
William Ellerton of Carfs-buildings, Liverpool, Forwarding Agent and Commission Merchant, having been adjudged bankrupt to make an application for his discharge at the Court of Bankruptcy in Manchester.

15th October 1869, page 5574
Notice: The partnership between John Ellerton and Richard Henry Bristow Macmullen, of 46 Kensington Gardens-square, Bayswater, Middlesex under the firm of Ellerton and Macmullen was dissolved by mutual consent.

8th October 1872, page 4780
1st London Rifle Volunteer Corps: Captain John Ellerton Pawson resigns his Commission.

26th November 1872, page 5616
1st North Riding of Yorkshire Artillery Volunteer Corps: Second Lieutenant John Ellerton to be Captain.

7th November 1873, page 4878
Notice to all creditors etc. "of the estate of Richard Ellerton ... who died at Ellerton Lodge, Downholme on 11th September 1873 and whose will, with a codicil annexed, was proved by Daniel Fossick Alderson, of Worksop, Nottingham, John Teale of Leyburn, and Thomas Thompson of Richmond, chemist ... to send in writing particulars of their claims to John William Teale, the Solicitor of the said executors at his office in Leyburn on or before the 1st January next".

27th November 1874, page 5965
Notice: The partnership which for some time past has been carried on between John Falshaw Pawson, Edward Ellerton, John Ellerton Pawson, Thomas Walter Newman, and James Ellerton under the firm of J F Pawson and Company at 9 St Paul's Churchyard, London, in the trade or business of Warehousemen is dissolved by mutual consent.

11th August 1876, page 4510
An Order of the High Court of Justice, re the trusts of the marriage settlement of Evan Price, deceased, dated 13th December 1827 ... for the distribution of the estates of Martha Price (formerly Martha Ellerton, daughter of Rev. Joseph Ellerton of Weeping Cross, Stafford), late of Penbridge, Stafford, widow of the Reverand Evan Price ... living at the time of her death in 1835 ... to come and prove their claims or be excluded from the benefit of the Order.

27th April 1877, page 2845
County Court of Durham, Stockton-on-Tees: Notice to all creditors relating to the proceedings for liquidation instituted by William Ellerton of Northgate, Darlington, butcher.

7th January 1879, page 56
36th Middlesex Rifle volunteer Corps: 2nd Lieutenant John Alexander Ellerton to be Lieutenant.

4th April 1879, page 2635
Notice: The partnership subsisting between John Edward Ellerton of Aberford, and Sydney Griesbach of Garforth, carrying on the profession and practice of Surgeons, Apothecaries and Accoucheurs at Aberford and Garforth is dissolved by mutual consent.

20th January 1880, page 325
County Court of Durham, Stockton-on-Tees: Notice to all creditors of William Ellerton, formerly of Northgate, Darlington, butcher, then of North Wing, Bradford, butcher, afterwards of Parkgate, Darlington, and now at 27 Northgate, Darlington, butcher's assistant.

6th May 1881, page 2355
Notice: The partnership subsisting between William Bailey, Matthew Williams, Wilfrid Condliff, Edward Green and Joseph Ellerton, carrying on business together at Wellington Works, Newport-street, Burslem, Staffs, as Earthenware Manufacturers, under the firm of Bailey, Williams and Company has been dissolved by mutual consent.

7th October 1881, page 5011
Notice to all creditors etc. of "George Ellerton, late of Kippax, surgeon, deceased (who died 24th August 1881, and whose will was on the 10th September 1881 duly proved in the District Registry at Wakefield ... by John Ellerton Pawson of Wellington, Somerset, Gentleman, and George Victor Ellerton of Wakefield, Stock and Share Broker, the executors ...".  Walter Lister, Old Corn Exchange, Wakefield, solicitor for the said executors.

13th April 1883, page 1993
Notice to all creditors etc. of "Charles Keen, late of Farnham, Surrey, Coachbuilder (who died on 11th January 1883 and whose will was proved ... on 31st January 1883 by Isabella Ellerton, wife of John Ellerton of Tiverton, Devon, Grocer, William Vine of Farnham, Provision Merchant, and John Robert Nash of the same place, Gentleman, the executors ...".  Hollest, Mason and Nash, Farnham, Surrey, solicitors for the said Executors.

15th April 1884, page 1720
18th Middlesex, Lieutenant John Alexander Ellerton resigns his Commission.

29th April 1892, page 2504
Notice to all creditors etc. of "Jane Frances Ellerton, late of Aberford, Yks, widow, deceased (who died on 25th February 1892, and whose will, with a codicil thereto, was proved in the Wakefield District Registry ... on 4th April 1892 by Robert Daniel Ryder of Pontefract, Yks, Gentleman and George Victor Ellerton of Wakefield, Sharebroker, the executors ...". Sangster and Coleman, Pontefract, Solicitors for the Executors.

5th December 1893, page 7148
Notice to all persons having claims or demands "against the estate of the Reverand John Ellerton, formerly of White Roding Rectory, Essex, but late of Rosement, Torquay, Devon, deceased, Clerk in Holy Orders (who died on 15th June 1893), and whose will was proved by the Reverand Herbert Harvey and the Reverand Francis George Ellerton the executors therein named, on the 23rd November 1893 ...". W. Silverwood Cope, 155 Fenchurch-street, London EC, Solicitor for the Executors.

29th December 1893, page 7591
The Middlesbrough Ironopolis Football Company Ltd:  At an EGM of the members held at the King's Head Hotel, Middlesbrough, on 21st December 1893, a resolution was passed that "the Company be wound up voluntrilay" [sic].  John Ellerton, Chairman.

28th June 1898, page 3946
Notice to all creditors etc. of "James Ellerton, the elder, late of Sash-court, Wilson street, Finsbury, and 90 Moncrieff-street, Peckham, London, French Polisher, deceased, (who died on 20th April 1898, and whose will was proved ... on 18th May 1898 by Thomas Harrison of 1 Argyle-terrace, Twerton-on-Avon, Somerset, Builder, and Thomas Pritchard of 18 Grenard-road, Camberwell, London, French Polisher, the acting executors therein named) ...". George Bodman, 8 Lancaster-place, Strand, London, and Barking, Essex, Solicitor for the Executors.

8th November 1898, page 6514
1st North Riding of Yorkshire (Western Division, Royal Artillery), Captain and Honorary Major J. Ellerton resigns his Commission; also is permitted to retain his rank, and to continue to wear the uniform of the Corps on his retirement.

31st October 1899, page 6568
Notice to all creditors etc. of "Harriet Ellerton, late of 90 Montcrieff-street, Peckham, London, widow, deceased (who died on 11th September 1899 and whose will was proved ... on 13th October 1899 by Thomas Harrison of 1 Argyle-terrace, Twerton-on-Avon, Somerset, Builder, the sole executor therein named) ...". George Bodman, 8 Lancaster-place, Strand, London, and Barking, Essex, Solicitor for the said Executor.

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