Lord John Jeremiah Ellsworth - Portrait of a FAKE

Uncertain Existence

The Lucia Ellsworth, {Fictional} and Sir John Ellsworth, {Fictional} 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
• Theophilus "Christopher" Elswaert

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Spurious Pedigree

Supposedly the Ellsworth's are a descendant of Sir John Ellsworth of the time of Edward the Third. (1312-1377).

(I) Sergeant Josias Ellsworth, the immigrant ancestor, was the son of John Ellsworth, and said to have been a descendant of Sir John Ellsworth, in the time of Edward III, who resided in Cambridgeshire, England. This conjecture is derived from "Mr. John Ellsworth, who was a respectable merchant in London, early in the nineteenth century, who stated that it was a tradition in his family which had long resided in Yorkshire, that a member of it had formerly removed to foreign parts; that he was a young man when he left, and never returned."

https://www.aylesworth.net/Confidence_family_DWT_CSS/ellsworth_fami...

"Among the earliest records of the family in England were of Albin de Ellesworthe of Cambridgeshire in 1273, [[Sampson Ellsworthe Sampson Ellsworthe] Samson de Ellesworth] and Robert de Elesworde of the same country at a slightly later date. [[Thomas de Ellsworthe Thomas de Ellsworthe] Thomas de Ellesworth] of the same place in 1292, [[Sir John Ellsworth, {Fictional} Sir John Ellsworth, {Fictional}] Sir John Ellsworth] of the same line in the early fourteenth century (who is claimed by some authorities to have been an ancestor of the emigrant [[Josiah Ellsworth Josiah Ellsworth] Josiah or Josias].) … “. (Note: this pedigree is disproved.)