Sarah Ellyson

Not the same as Sarah Carter

comments July 2015

• Sara Spence died in 1627 as a child, she cannot have been the wife of Robert Ellyson.
• Thomas Allison (1639-1680) is DNA proven to be of a different line.

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Robert Allison or Ellyson as it came to be spelled in Virginia.

Robert Allison was born in Newton Reigny, Cumberland, England on Sept. 7,1589 and died in Virginia about 1656. He was married to Sarah Spence (b.1621), daughter of William Spence.

They had two children, Thomas (b.1638) and Robert.

He owned land in Virginia and Maryland. Was one time Sherriff of St. Mary County, Maryland. Was a physician for a while. He married Sarah Spence, who was born 1621 and was the daughter of Ensign William Spence, a member of the Burgesses in 1619, 1st representative assembly in America. Robert Ellyson died in 1656. S

ome histories of his son, Robert, list Robert's mother as Elizabeth Gray.