Ellen Louisa AYRTON (née MCCLATCHIE) [c.1855-????]

1861 Census Bethnal Green

Thomas R McClatchie  age 48 Curate of All Saints Spitalfields born Ireland late missionary to China and Isabella S McClatchie age 35 born Staffordshire and children Henry B McClatchie age 14 born China, Isabella S McClatchie age 12 born China, Arthur J McClatchie age 10 born China, Thomas R McClatchie age 9 born China, Ellen L McClatchie age 6 Born Ireland, Florence F McClatchie age 5 born Hampshire, Leonard C McClatchie age 2 born Sevenoaks Kent.

UK Foreign and Overseas Registers

 Marriage 26 November 1880 Shanghai

Ellen Louisa McClatchie of full age daughter of Thomas McClatchie occupation Canon and William Scrope Ayrton of full age occupation Consular Service son of William Scrope Ayrton occupation Justice of the Peace.

An Ancestry Public Tree shows her date of death 6-03-1924. but no place  of death. Probate records show that  the Ellen Ayrton who died in 1924 is not the wife of William Scrope Ayrton

Another Tree shows her date of death as 28 November 1897 in Wenchow China. This seems more likely to be the correct date as she gave birth to a child in 1897 in Wenchow and the child died soon after. Possibly Ellen also died at this time. On the  1901 Census her husband is living at 60 Edith Road Fulham London and his status is Single Consul (China Service) retired.  He died in 1902  and the Probate Calendar entry does not mention his wife. In 1901 five of his children are living at the same address as well as his sister  in law Millicent McClatchie  and  a cook and a housemaid. Probate Calendar shows bis date of death as 16 December 1902 and his administrators are named as Millicent Mary McClatchie spinster and Edward Ayrton silk spinner.

On an Ancestry McClatchie tree her birth is shown as 10 May 1854.

Marriage Index Marriage 26 November 1880 at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity Shanghai.