Richard was a member of the Mercers' Guild and had his own business in Richmond. The 1807 "Poll for Knights of the Shire" recorded "Richard Ellerton, draper" as a voter residing, and having freehold property, in Richmond.
Richard's first wife, Maria ("of Thorp, near Wycliffe"), died in childbirth in 1808. The Gentlemen's Magazine no. 82 (October 1812) reported that a marble tablet in Wycliffe Church showed "To the memory of Maria, daughter of John Newby of Thorp, and wife of Richard Ellerton of Richmond, who departed this life September 22nd 1808, aged 24". Note: In 1800 Maria's sister Elizabeth had married Matthew Whitelock, son of Matthew (brother of Richard's wife Catherine?) & Ann.
He married his second wife, Elizabeth, by license seven years later in 1812 (the ceremony was carried out by his uncle Edward Ellerton, and witnessed by Jo. and Elizabeth Tolsen). The Monthly Magazine reported on the marriage: "At Horbury, Richard Ellerton, esq. of Richmond, to Miss Wright, of Carr-Lodge, near Wakefield"
According to Bellerby: a Dalesend Village (David Simon Hall, 1989) he purchased Fryer Ings farm (between Bellerby and Barden) a few years before he died: "Lady Bolton sold the farm to Richard Ellerton in 1814. His heirs, the Aldersons, sold it to David Calvert in 1891 and he rebuilt the house in 1919".
The book Romantic Richmondshire (Harry Speight, 1897) records that Richard was one of the founders [in 1814, along with his brothers Christopher and Edward, paying a ground rent of 6d per year to Lord Bolton] of the Free School in Downholme.
The executor of Richard's 1817 Will, proved in York court the following year, was his brother Edward. Richard included "William Fell of Rudd Hall " as a beneficiary, and this is the first known connection between the Ellerton families of North Yorkshire with that estate (a distant relative Edward Ellerton and his family lived/farmed there for many years).
On 9/2/1819 the London Gazette included a notice
stating that "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".
Richard's second wife Elizabeth was born in Scotland, and by the time of
the 1841 census she had moved with her children and step-daughter
Isabella to "Aberdour House", Aberdour, Scotland where she was described as born "outside census county"
whereas the children were all shown as born in "England". All were show as
"occupation: Independant", and there were also six resident servants.
In 1851 she was living at her son's house at Dudlestone, Shrophire along
with her daughter Catherine and 5 servants. The Gentleman's Magazine
reported the death on 3rd Dec
1854 "At Leamington, aged 70, Elizabeth wife of the
late Richard Ellerton".
Details of Richard's daughters:
Isabella - baptised on 4/2/1808 at "Richmond near Leyburn". Her mother,
Maria, had died giving birth to her, but Isabella was left comfortably well off
by her maternal grandfather. Edinburgh's Caledonian Mercury reported her
marriage at Kirkaldy on 23/11/1843 to "Philip Barrington Ainslie Esq. of St Colme, Flintshire ... The bride's maids were the Lady Margaret Stuart, the Lady
Louisa Stuart, and Misses Barbara and Catherine Ellerton, sisters of the bride".
Barbara Elizabeth - m. Rev James Clancey in 1850 at Llandovery, Wales. She
was left an annuity in the will of her sister-in-law
Janet Walker Wilkinson who died in 1890. An intriguing notice in the Glasgow
Herald announced the marriage "at Haylee, Largs, on the 16th inst [September
1863], David Brown Esq., engineer, RWIMS Company, Southampton, to Barbara
Elizabeth Ellerton, youngest daughter of Mr William Brown".
Catherine - born 24/5/1817, just ten months before her father died.
After living with her mother (1841 census, Scotland) and brother (1851 census,
Shropshire), at Bachau (Merionethshire, 1851) she finally moved to Hambritts House, Painswick, Gloucester (owned by her brother?)
where she died, unmarried, on 29/4/1869. The National Probate Index shows: "Catharine
Ellerton formerly of Great Malvern, Worcester, but late of Painswick, Gloucester. Spinster, died 29/4/1869. Will proved on 27th May
by Richard Ellerton of Plas-yn-Vivod, Llangollen, Denbigh -
brother and sole executor. Effects <£7,000"
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