| Description | Personal, business and estates-related correspondence of the Ellison family of Hebburn, with financial records, deeds and papers relating especially to their coal mining interests..
The following additional records are not yet fully catalogued:
Acc 3650
Sir Henry Liddell, 3rd Baronet, lesson book nd c1660
Cuthbert Ellison of Hebburn, commonplace book c1805
Sir Henry Liddell, 3rd Baronet, commonplace book c1669 |
| AdminHistory | The Ellison family arrived in Newcastle c1500, probably from Stamfordham, Northumberland. They became prominent members of the Merchant Adventurers Guild and the first Cuthbert Ellison was mayor of Newcastle in 1549 and 1554. He was also a landowner and the family landholding was consolidated by his son and grandson, both also called Cuthbert. Robert Ellison (1614-1678), a parliamentarian, prospered during the civil war and became an MP in 1647. Acquisition of the Hebburn Estate and Hebburn Hall enabled him to prosper further from the coal trade and to gain gentry status. Robert's grandson Robert (1665-1726) married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Liddell of Ravensworth Castle, forming an alliance with a wealthy and politically powerful family. Their second son Henry (1699-1775) further consolidated the family's position by marriage to Hannah Cotesworth, daughter of William of Gateshead Park. Cotesworth, from humble beginnings, had already made his fortune in trade when he acquired the manors of Gateshead and Whickham, which controlled the passage of coal from south of the Tyne. On Henry Ellison's death, Gateshead Park and the bulk of the Cotesworth inheritance passed to his eldest son Henry, who also subsequently inherited his uncle's estate at Hebburn, making him one of the principal landowners in the north east. The next head of the family was Henry's younger son Cuthbert (1783-1860) who once again further extended the family's estates through his marriage to Isabella Ibbetson of Newcastle, heir to the Bonner estates at St Anthony's and Byker, as well as land at Jarrow. Meanwhile Cuthbert's sister Hannah had married John Carr of Dunston Hill and their son Ralph, who took the name Carr-Ellison was to become the heir to the whole of the two estates. Cuthbert, however, spent little time on Tyneside, preferring his town house in London and his Surrey estate to either Hebburn or Gateshead, which had rapidly industrialised. |