Joane “Anne” Ellis

• The Benjamin Family in America by Bicha, Gloria Wall, 1929-; Brown, Helen Benjamin

Was she the same as 'widow Ellis' Genery?

Origins

Frank Everett Benjamin, researching the John and Richard lineage in England, found Wills from Lewes, East Sussex, England. These were transcribed from the Old English or Latin and show John Benjamin's father married Joane (Hookes) Benjamin on January 18, 1584.

Their children were listed as follows:

1. John (1585)
2. Susan (1586)
3. Thomas (1587)
4. Joane (1589)
5. Gyles (1591)
6. Richard (1602).

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Family

Not verified.

From https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/m/y/e/Ron-C-Myers/GENE30-0156.html

John Ellis, Sr, born Abt. 1590 in of Cotton, Suffolk, England

He was the son of Thomas Ellis and Margaret Brooke.

He married Ann Benjamin 13 Feb 1608/09 in England.

Children of John Ellis and Ann Benjamin are:

• i. John Ellis, Jr, born Abt. 1618; died Unknown. (John Ellis of Medfield)
• ii. Ann Ellis, born 01 Jul 1619 in Skipton, Yorkshire, England; died 04 Dec 1678 in Groton, New London County, CT; married Lt Edward Colver I 19 Sep 1638 in First Church, Dedham, Middlesex County, MA. (Anne Colver)
• iii. Joseph Ellis, born Abt. 1625 in Of Dedham, MA; died 06 Mar 1663/64 in Dedham, MA; married Ruth Morse Bef. 1663; born 03 Jun 1637 in Dedham, MA; died Aft. 03 Mar 1674/75. More About Joseph Ellis and Ruth Morse: Marriage: Bef. 1663 (Joseph Ellis of Dedham)
• iv. Lt Richard Ellis, born Abt. 1625; died Unknown; married Elizabeth French 1658 (Lt. Richard Ellis of Dedham)
• v. Francis Ellis, born Abt. 1627; died Unknown. (Francis Ellis)

Death also seen as 1652. Death seen as December 04, 1678 (88-89)

Research Notes

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Benjamin-140

She was a "possible sister" of John Benjamin and Arabella Benjamin (who was licensed to marry on 8 Dec 1602 to Peter Austin of Tenterden, Kent), but evidence is lacking.[1]

This profile reports that Ann Benjamin was born about 1597 at Mayfield, Sussex, England, a daughter of John Benjamin and Joane Hookes.[citation needed] Most researchers connect the family of John Benjamin, the immigrant, with Chalvington, Sussex (see Research Notes).

Some researchers assume that Ann Benjamin was the first wife of John Ellis.[citation needed]

This profile reports that Ann died on 30 Jun 1627 at Watertown, Massachusetts.[citation needed]

“The Benjamin family in America.” by Bicha, Gloria Wall, 1929-; Brown, Helen Benjamin. Page 2. Archive.Org

Another possible sister is Ann, first wife of John Ellis. [John Ellis came to America in 1621 on the "Fortune"and was one of the first settlers of Sandwich, Mass. in 1643. Ann probably died in England, since he married second in 1643 Elizabeth Freeman.] [SIC: a different John Ellis]

His children from that first marriage were:

1. Ann Ellis born about 1618 in England and married Edward Culver at Dedham, Mass. in 1638. Thoas Fanning and his wife Fran- ces (Ellis) Fanning brought the youngest daughter of John Ellis by his first wife to America with them. Edward Culver was in their company on their trip to America. This daughter was probably Ann.

2. John Ellis born 1620 in England; m/l Susanna Lumbar d in 1641. She died in 1654 at Medfield and he m/2 Joan, widow of John Clapp of Dorchester. The Lumbard and Famming surnames are closely associated with the Benjamin family.

3. Other children were probably Joseph Ellis who m. Ruth and Richard Ellis who m. Elizabeth and both resided in Dedham in 1645. A Richard Ellis arrived in Boston from England in 1632 aboard the same ship as did John and Richard Benjamin. A daughter of John Ellis' second marriage, Bennet Ellis, born 1648/9 and married Obadiah Eddy, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Savery) Eddy. All these facts seem to tie the Ellis family in very closely with the Benjamin family.

However, in all the years of searching. . .with some done on "the spot" in England, no one has been able to come up with the actual parentage or siblings of John Benjamin. The Chalvington Parish records certainly tend to give substance to the fact that his father was named John Benjamin, but reading any other relation- ships into those records is most difficult.

All Benjamins, whose ancestor was in this country before 1800 and are not of Jewish descent are believed to be of either the John Benjamin or Richard Benjamin line.