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Adelaide, South
Australia. She married Frederick Robert Broughton on 29 August 1876 in Wyddial, Hertfordshire and they had two children during their marriage. Annie died on 12 October 1918 in Hertfordshire at the age of 74, and was buried in Wyddial, Hertfordshire. John Chute Ellis was their fourth child and he was born on 2 February 1847 in South Australia. He served with the 13th Huzzars in England and Canada, lived for a time at Benara, purchased Merrivale station on the South Island of New Zealand in Dunedin, Otago, then shifted to Tasmania. He married Jessie Margaret White on 20 March 1879; they had two children during their marriage. He died on 8 August 1926 in Hobart, Tasmania, at the age of 79.
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Elizabeth. She married Richard Lyon Geaves on 9 August 1881 and together they had nine children in 14 years before she died on 8 January 1929 in Hartley, Wintney, Hampshire, at the age of 76. Their eighth child was called Jessie Chute Ellis who was born in 1854 in Adelaide, South Australia. She married William Watson Tolson on 3 August 1881 in England and they had six children during their marriage. She died on 3 January 1945 in Sutton, Coldfield, Warwickshire, at the age of 91.
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William Chute Ellis and was born in 1856 in Adelaide, South Australia. He married Constance Ethel Bull in 1909 in Cuckfield, Sussex. He died on 1 October 1940 at the age of 84. Their eleventh and final child was named Bessie (Betty) Chute Ellis and was born in 1859 in Adelaide, South Australia, She married Lucius Joseph Collum and they had one daughter,
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Australia. Fanny married David Edwards on 9 September 1873 in Kensington, Middlesex and together they had one child. She died in April 1874 in Caernarvonshire, Wales at the age of 33.
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Their ninth child, Chaloner Chute Ellis was born in 1855 in
Adelaide, South Australia. He married Selina Anne Mary Eardley-Wilmot on 18 November 1886. They had two children during their marriage before he died on 18 January 1916 in Colchester, Essex, at the age of 61. Elizabeth and Ellis' tenth child
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Australia, he retired with his wife Elizabeth and family back to England. His son Thomas took over his estates, and his children in turn continued to run Benara and Coola into the 20th Century. He died on 22 March 1873 in Kempton Park, Middlesex, England,
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Elizabeth (Lizzey) Chute Ellis was born on 30 September 1850 in South Australia. She married Norton Aylmer Roupell in 1875. She died on 13 December 1939 in Aldershot, Hampshire, at the age of 89. Jane (Jenny) Chute Ellis was born on 29 February 1852 in South Australia and was
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Ellis' first wife, Elizabeth Jane White
Cathery born in 1819 in Longfleet, Dorset. At the time, her father Desborough Cathery (b.1794 - d.1861) was 25, and her mother Jane Easton (b.1801 - d.1836), was 18. Elizabeth died on 17 August 1862 in Westminster, Middlesex, at the age of 43. Over the 18
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Elizabeth's second child was Lucy Chute Ellis who was born on 22 September 1842 in Adelaide, South Australia. She had one son and one daughter with Herbert John Coningham and died on 2 July 1922 at the age of 79. Their third child was Annie Chute Ellis who was born on 14 May 1844 in
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and 34 square miles of leasehold land, where he ran some 73,000 sheep, He purchased the remainder of Benara (originally spelled
Benaira) and an adjacent station, Coola comprising 22,000 acres of freehold and 36,000 acres of leasehold, from the South Australian Company in 1875.
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