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Anna Blandina Ellis (Masterson)

Also Known As: "Blandyna Masterson", "Ann /Masterson/"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Scotton, Yorkshire, England (United Kingdom)
Death: March 06, 1654 (55-56)
Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Place of Burial: York, York, England, United Kingdom
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Edmund Masterson and Joane Masterson
Wife of John ‘the Puritan’ Ellis
Mother of John Ellis; Christopher Ellis; Catherine Ellis; Matthew Ellis; Mary Ellis and 3 others
Sister of Robert Masterson; Joan Masterson; William Masterson; Agnes Masterson; Nancy Netherton Ellis and 3 others

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About Anna Blandina Ellis

Not the mother of Lt. John Ellis of Sandwich


A John Ellis married Blandyna Masterson, sister of Richard Masterson at Sandwich, Kent, England in 1594 and had the following children: Christopher (1595), Mary (1596), John (1598, buried 1603), Susana (1600) and Thomas (1608). Both Masterson and Ellis were radical separatists and known friends of Moses Fletcher, James Chilton and other Mayflower passengers from Kent. They were in Leiden, Holland. One Christopher Ellis (assumed to be the man baptized in 1595) was still alive and living in Leiden in 1649 when Bradford wrote him a letter. So we have puritans in Leiden with the name Ellis from a place in England called Sandwich. (Slovak Yankee)

There was at least one branch of the ELLIS family whose opposition to the Established Church was so decided that it was not satisfied with being merely Nonconformist inside that church. Its opposition was so great that it joined the group called Separatists (later Pilgrims) who built a new church outside of the Established Church. In that branch John ELLIS succeeded in leaving England, went to Holland and was a member of Rev. John ROBINSON’S Separatist Church at Leyden. His occupation was wool-comber. We do not know how long he remained in Holland, but we know that he was in Leyden as late as March 20, 1619 as on that date he stated in a deposition that he was a witness Nov. 8, 1619 to the betrothal of his brother-in-law, Richard MASTERSON. The City Records of Leyden show that he was a witness Nov. 26, 1619 to the marriage of his brother-in-law Richard MASTERSON, who went to Holland from Sandwich, Eng. At the time of his deposition, March 20, 1619 John ELLIS was about 50 years old. Richard MASTERSON was stated to be a “young man,” that is, not a widower, and that John ELLIS of Leyden married before Easter, 1606 Blandina, a sister of Richard MASTERSON. It is apparent that John ELLIS was 37 years old in 1606, and that his wife Blandina was younger than he.

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Anna Blandina Ellis's Timeline

1598
February 4, 1598
Sandwich, Kent , England
1598
Scotton, Yorkshire, England (United Kingdom)
1616
1616
Lowestoft, Suffolk, England (United Kingdom)
1627
July 9, 1627
Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
1629
1629
Wrentham, Suffolk, England (United Kingdom)
1632
October 7, 1632
Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
1635
May 25, 1635
Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
May 25, 1635
Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
1639
June 29, 1639
Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
1654
March 6, 1654
Age 56
Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States