What's New?    

For those of you who visit my website regularly in the hope that new pages have been added or existing ones updated, this page should provide a quick and easy way of checking to ensure you don't miss out on important updates made in the past few years!

• March 2004 - added various "Ellerton Trees" to the site, and deleted the GedHTree schematic trees which I felt were not really that useful.

• April 2004 - after 5 months I completed the transcription of "interesting" Ellerton entries in The Times Digital Archive for 1785-1899. Watch this space for news of the 1900-1985 transcription! (I also transcribed the mentions of Rudd Hall - residence of the Ellerton family for many years).

• May 2004 - added the "Francis 1712" line to the "Ellerton Trees" section.

• September 2004 - added data gleaned from over 200 "Historical Directories" (Kelly's, etc.}

• December 2004 - added the "tree" for Matthew (1744-1824), the line of researchers Diane, Sophie, Hallie, Peter, Dirk, and Don.

• February 2005 - updated and expanded the "Ellerton BMD" pages, converting from Excel to Acrobat reports in the process - the latter files being much quicker to load.

• June 2005 - revamped the look and feel of the whole website

• August 2005 - added details of numerous pre-1858 wills

• Oct/Nov/Dec 2005 - updated the 1861, 1871, and 1891 Census pages for "Yorkshire residents" (and added "Yorkshire Strays & Durham" pages) to show all Ellertons satisfying one of those criteria.

• January 2006 - more census data: added details for 1901 "Yorkshire residents" and "Yorkshire Strays & Durham".

• March 2006 - added several more "trees" stemming from "Matthew of Downholme and Scotton, 1696-1739"

• June 2006 - created "The Ellerton Forum", where researchers are invited to leave a brief resumé of their research interests for others to read (and reply to).  Please add a brief message now!!

• August 2006 - added many details and links to the census pages for 1861-1901.

• September 2006 - after several months' work I have now updated and extended the BMD data to cover 1837-1911, and added numerous notes to indicate parents/spouses names and the relevant "Ellerton tree" for most of the Yorkshire-related entries.

• April 2007 - added the "John 1772" (Staffordshire) tree: over 120 names!

• May 2007 - added the "Benjamin 1730" tree: his family lived in the Cottingham area for many years. His line included Charles Ellerton who migrated to Canada and had the town Hallerton (sic) named after him.

• June 2007 - added many new names/details to the census pages for 1841-1871.

• December 2007 - added numerous pages (and some photos) for individuals in the "Richard of Downholme 1678-1743" tree. Also added a potted history of Ellerton Lodge which was the main family home for this branch of the Ellerton family for most of the 18th and 19th centuries.

• January 2008 - added details of reports and notices published in the London Gazette prior to 1900.

I make numerous changes/additions/corrections to many individual web pages every month, so don't forget to regularly check out any that have specific interest to you.  Why not add this page to the Favorites/Bookmarks folder of your Internet Browser to ensure that you keep up-to-date with any changes that are made?