Maria Rowntree

Maria (5 August 1848 in Scarborough – 3 March 1941 in Scalby), the youngest daughter of Quaker John Rowntree, a grocer in Scarborough, and Jane Priestman.

In 1867, she married John Ellis in the Friends Meeting House in Scarborough.

Maria had 5 children:
 * John Rowntree Ellis, born 1868, died 1889 of rheumatic fever
 * Arthur Edward Ellis born 1870, committed suicide in 1891
 * Harold Thornton Ellis, born 1875
 * twin daughters, Marian Emily and Edith Ellis, born 1878.

Wrea Head Hall in Scalby was built during 1881-2 and the family moved there from Nottingham in April 1883.

Maria died on 3 March 1941 in Scalby.