ELLIS. In the whole ranoe of family nomenclature there is perhaps no name which admits of more variety of origin, or a greater number of differing forms, " Elles or Ellis in British," says Hals, in D. Gilbert's Cornwall, iii. ■129, "is ason-inlaw by the wife, and Els or Ells, a son-inlaw by the husband, Ella or J211a is a wellknown regal name of A-Sax, times, and its genitive form would in later days become Ellis. From these two sources some of our very numerous families may have sprung, but there is little doubt that the surname

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.