Sir John Ellsworth, {Fictional}

Uncertain Existence

The Lucia Ellsworth, {Fictional} and Sir John Ellsworth, {Fictional} profiles appear to be a fiction created to supply parents for a number of immigrants to America. The only published source, (Cutter, see below) is known to be unreliable. There is no record of any John Ellsworth being knighted. A search of records has discovered no Ellsworths born in Cambridgeshire during the relevant period. The name of "Eelstown", previously listed as his birthplace and the birthplace of many others from this family, does not exist.

Several alleged descendants have already been detached from this profile. Research indicates that daughters Ann and Jemima also may not have existed, while son Arthur Ellsworth is doubtless a conflation with Arthur Aylesworth.

Disconnected children

• Theophilus "Christopher" Elswaert
• Jeremiah Ellsworth
• Josiah Ellsworth

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Note: The name of "Eelstown" so often seen in texts about the history of the Ellsworth family has long ago been disproven. There is no such town in Cambridgeshire or even in England nor was there ever.

Far from being the name of a real person, Lucia appears to have been a person who had a bower - a character in a novel titled The Tutor of Truth by Samuel Jackson Pratt, p. 30. London: printed for Richardson and Urquhart, 1779. umich.edu In short, a fabrication.

This couple (John Ellsworth and Lucia Bower) appears to be a fiction created to supply parents for a number of immigrants to America. The only published source, [1] is known to be unreliable. There is no record of any John Ellsworth being knighted. A search of records has discovered no Ellsworths born in Cambridgeshire during the relevant period. The name of "Eelstown", previously listed as his birthplace and the birthplace of many others from this family, does not exist.

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Derbyshire, ENG.

Possibly moved from ENG in 1630 and settled in Windsor, CT Colony.

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ellsworth-135
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bower-90
• Cutter, William Richard. New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 4, Page 1717. Publisher: Lewis historical publishing Company, 1913. <GoogleBooks> spurious pedigree