Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Elys Of Cintra, The
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Solebury Township


   THE ELYS OF CINTRA Centra, situated in the borough of New 
Hope, on the rising ground west of the village, was built 
about 1816 by William Maris, and so called after the castle 
of Cintra near Lisbon, Portugal, from a wing of which the 
plans were designed.  It was bought by Richard Randolph in 
1830, and conveyed to his brother-in-law, Elias Ely, father 
of the present owner, by deed dated March 11, 1834.  Richard 
Elias Ely and Sarah M. Wilson, daughter of Dr. John Wilson, 
of Elm Grove, Buckingham township, this county, and Margaret 
Mitchell, his first wife.  The eldest child, Ruthanna Ely, 
was born in 1825 and was married in 1861 to Oliver Paxson, 
son of Thomas Paxson and Hannameel Canby.  She owned and 
resided at Maple Grove until 1869 when she died leaving four 
children:  Sarah Ely Paxson, Margaret Ely Paxson, Oliver 
Wilson Paxson and Caroline Ely Paxson, the present owners of 
that place.  The second daughter of Elias Ely married in 
1860 Dr. James E. Rhoads, of Philadelphia, and with her 
children, Anna Ely Rhoads, Caroline Newbold Rhoads and 
Charles James Rhoads, now lives at Bryn Mawr, Pa.  In 1858 
Richard Elias Ely married Caroline Amelia, daughter of 
William F. Newbold and Elizabeth Pancoast, then living in 
Burlington, N. J.   William F. Newbold was a grandson of 
Clayton Newbold, of Springfield township, New Jersey, whose 
great-grandparents, Michael Newbold, and Alice, his wife, 
came to this country from England.  The earliest ancestor in 
England of whom there is record was John Newbold, of 
Newbold, Parish of Chesterfield, Derby, who died in 1556.  
The Newbold arms are:  Azure, two bends argent, a chief of 
the last.  Crest, a cross flory fitchee azure.  Richard 
Elias Ely has two children:  William Newbold and Margaret 
Wilson, both born at Cintra. The ancestor of the Elys of 
Cintra, in this country, was Hugh Ely, who settled in 
Buckingham about 1720.  He was the fourth son of Joshua Ely, 
of Dunham, Nottinghamshire, England, who bought land in New 
Jersey about 1685, and died in 1702, having married Rachel 
Lee, his second wife, in 1699.  In 1712 Hugh Ely married 
Mary Hewson, the original marriage certificate being on file 
among the family papers at Cintra.  He had four children:  
Thomas, who married Sarah Louther, and went to Maryland; 
Hugh, Ann, who married Peter Matson, and Anna, who married 
John Wilkinson.  The second Hugh Ely, born in 1715, married 
in 1746 Elizabeth, daughter of William Blackfan and Eleanor 
Wood, and grand-daughter of Edward Blackfan, who was the son 
of John Blackfan, of Stenning, county of Sussex, England, 
and Rebecca Crispin, his wife, who was the daughter of 
William Crispin, of Kinsale, Ireland, who were married at 
Ifield, in Sussex, on the 24th day of August, 1688.  The 
children of Hugh Ely and Elizabeth Blackfan were six in 
number, as follows:  John, William, Elizabeth, Hugh, Jesse 
and Joseph.  The fourth child, Hugh, was born in 1760.  He 
married in 1793 Ruth Paxson, daughter of Oliver Paxson and 
Ruth Watson, who resided at the place now known as Maple 
Grove.  Hugh Ely bought this place of Oliver Paxson, and 
lived there until his death in 1822.  He left two children:  
Elizabeth, born in 1794, married Richard Randolph, of 
Philadelphia, and died in 1831 without children. Elias was 
born in 1795, and married Sarah M. Wilson in 1823, as was 
before stated.  He died in 1836.  The Ely arms are:  Argent 
a fesse, engrailed between six fleurs-de-lis, gules.