Photographs of the Ellis Family, Derby, England
Baptist Missionary Society Missionaries to Calcutta, India
Bernard and Norman's Father
Outside the family printing works in George Street, Riddings, England, ready for business. The gate and yard are at the side of the family house.
Norman Ellis (click here for biographical details)
Superintendent of the Baptist Mission Press
Peggie Ellis
Wife of Norman Ellis
Peggie and Norman Ellis
Ellis Family
Peggie, Norman, Freda (Bernard's wife), John (son of Freda and Bernard), Dorothy (Freda's sister), Margaret and Rosemary (children of Peggie and Norman)
Margaret Ellis
(daughter of Norman and Peggie)
Rosemary Ellis
(daughter of Norman and Peggie)
Bernard Ellis (click here for biographical details)
Superintendent of the Baptist Mission Press
Freda Ellis
Wife of Bernard Ellis
Bernard, Freda, John, and Ronald Ellis
Freda Ellis and son, John Ellis
Ronald and John Ellis
Image 1 (Upon arrival at the train station, Coonoor, India; ready for boarding school)
Image 2 (Ronald and John Ellis's 1600 Mile Train Journey to Boarding School in Coonoor, India)
John and Ronald Ellis
Image 1 (With their bearer in Calcutta. Though he lived on the grounds of the Baptist Mission Press, this Indian man had a wife and children in Orissa, whom he saw two weeks out of each year.)
John Ellis
John, son of Bernard and Freda Ellis, is listening to a 78 record, on a wind up gramophone. He is standing next to an entrance to the sitting room that led up some steps from the compound of the Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta. The sitting room was the Superintendent's office for most of the Press's existence. Paper, printed books and Bibles were stored in the rooms next to the sitting room, some of which became missionaries' bedrooms and dining room. In the early nineteenth century, William Carey would have entered the office to talk to Rev. William Pearce, the Press's founder, through the door in the family sitting room. Carey would have stayed in the Superintendent's flat, which was immediately above, and he preached in the Baptist Chapel next door.
Created: November 6, 2002 Updated: October 26, 2018