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Perry, Ellis 1836 and 1867

Perry, Ellis 1836 and 1867

Posted: 16 Aug 2014 6:59PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 16 Aug 2014 7:15PM GMT
Surnames: Ellis, Perry
Trying to identify

Nova Scotia, Canada, Marriages, 1763-1935
Name: Susanna Perry
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Widow
Spouse Name: Samuel Ellis
Spouse Gender: Male
Spouse Marital Status: Widower
Marriage Date: 18 Feb 1836
Marriage Place: Yarmouth, Yarmouth
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Death record for her 1867, Yarmouth age 67, parents Robert and Susan

Re: Perry, Ellis 1836 and 1867

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 9:17PM GMT
Classification: Query
NS Marriage Bonds 1836 show Samuel Ellis of Yarmouth, widower, contracting to marry Susanna Perry, widow.

Brown, Yarmouth Genealogies, p. 102:

Ellis, Capt. Samuel. s/o Ebenezer 1st, m. (1) 1797, June 23, Hannah Bartlett, d/o Lemuel, and
(2) Susanna (Magray) Perry, widow of Levi. Capt. Samuel died 28 December 1860.

Ibid, p. 86:
Susanna Magray, b. ca. 1773, d/o Capt. John Magray and Elizabeth Allen, m. (1) Levi Perry, s/o Moses, and (2) Samuel Ellis, s/o Ebenezer 1st. She died 12 November 1855.

Ibid, p. 102:
The eldest child of Capt. Samuel Ellis and his wife Hannah was
Samuel, 2nd, b. 10 March 1800. He married Susanna Perry* d/o Robert and he died September 1833.

Ibid p. 543:
Susanna Parry, born 21 January 1800, d/o Capt. Robert Parry and his wife Susanna Coffran, married Capt. Samuel Ellis 2nd, s/o Capt. Samuel.

My take on all this is that the record you posted has condensed the two generations into one (not at all surprising given that both father and son were named Samuel Ellis and both married a woman named Susanna Perry!) The marriage you quoted refers to Samuel 1st; his 2nd wife Susanna was the daughter of Capt. John Magray and widow of Levi Perry. The death record for Susanna d/o Robert and Susan is for the widow of Samuel's son, Samuel 2nd, who had himself died before his father remarried.

*To add to the confusion, there were two very distinct lineages in Yarmouth in the early years, Perry and Parry, and in the 18th and 19th centuries most of them spelled it "Perry" regardless. Brown successfully untangles them (p. 527ff for Perry and 541ff for Parry. However, in his other genealogies, it is often spelled Perry by mistake. (I have Parry ancestry, and I've had to deal with this a lot!) Moses Perry was the original settler of that spelling--and one of the three 1st settlers of Yarmouth, who came from Sandwich, MA in 1761; it was his son Levi who married Susanna Magray, so she is properly Perry.
Capt. Robert Parry was a son of John Parry 1st, the original settler of that name (who came from Connecticut via Cumberland Co., NS a year or two later.) So Samuel 2nd's wife is properly Susanna Parry.

Re: Perry, Ellis 1836 and 1867

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 10:00PM GMT
Classification: Query
Thank you, it often takes a more experienced researcher to help figure out these complicated items. Another tree links to Leah Susannah Specht and I was sure that wasn't correct, obviously just saw her middle name.

Re: Perry, Ellis 1836 and 1867

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 10:40PM GMT
Classification: Query
Good for you! "Specht" is most emphatically NOT a Yarmouth, NS name in the time period we are discussing! (I don't think it is today either, but I won't go out on a limb and state that there has never been a person of that surname pass through the town in all the years since.)

Re: Perry, Ellis 1836 and 1867

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 12:41AM GMT
Classification: Query
Its from Digby,( my line), started in late 1790's, a German fought for GB and went to Nova Scotia; many changed spelling to Spates and a few other variations. Leah Susanna Specht married a Daniel Ellis 1809.
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