Ellis - Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Genealogy Photos
The "Dart" Steam
Launch at St Mary's quay, c 1915, 47 feet in length, built at Phillips yard in
Dartmouth for the West Cornwall Steamship company. Taken over by the Isles
of Scilly Steamship company and renamed the "Gugh". Wrecked
in 1951 when a gale tore her from her moorings.
GreatGrandParents
Cottage, 1895-ish Tresco
(note the water barrel on wheels, water had to be carried up hill from
the freshwater "pool")
Group
picture of the Ellis children 1916 - Isles of Scilly.
Mary
Jane Ellis (nee Harris) b.1849 - d.1932 Tresco
1910
- Watercolour by Jessie Mothersole
Mary Jane not only grew flowers but also vegetables and was a "darn
good Shrimper"