Notes A birth registration was found for James Ellis: Year of Registration: 1898; Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar; District: Tamworth; County: Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire; Volume: 6b; Page: 457. (Parents: Henry Ellis and Sarah Smith, who married in June Quarter 1876; Tamworth, Volume 6b, page 539.)
A death registration was found for Sarah Ellis: Estimated Birth Year: abt 1859; Year of Registration: 1899; Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec; Age at Death: 40; District: Tamworth; County: Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire; Volume: 6b; Page: 277.
In 1901, James Ellis, 3 years of age, was residing at 1 House, 4 Court, 35 George Street, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England. Other family members included: Albert Ellis, 9; Arthur T. Ellis, 22, general labourer; Ethel Ellis, 11; Henry Ellis, widower, 54, gardener; Frank Ellis, 6; and William J. Ellis, 20, coal miner. (Source: 1901 Census of England; Class: RG13; Piece: 2649; Folio: 16; Page: 23.)
In 1905, James Ellis, 8 (along with brothers, Albert Ellis, 11, and Frank Ellis, 10) arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, with a group of 142 children from Middlemore's Childrens Immigration Homes, Birmingham, England, en route to the Fairview Home, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. (His sister, Ethel Ellis, arrived the same year on the Bavaria with Waifs & Strays and was sent to St. John, New Brunswick.)
In 1911, James Ellis, 12, was shown as adopted by William and Maud Arbuckle of Lower Dumfries, New Brunswick, Canada. His date of birth was shown as December 1898 and his immigration year as 1904.