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The following is an overview of the sources that have been checked for the Ellett name both on and off the internet. Clicking on the category link will take you to the page listing all the entries for that category. In some cases, variant spellings of the name have been included such as Ellitt, Elliott, Ellott, Ellet, Aylett etc and this is indicated in the description of the source.

Civil Registration - birth, marriage and death indexes for England and Wales from 1837-2001. All ELLETT entries from the indexes have been extracted plus many for other variant spellings.
Scottish birth, marriage & death events - from the Scots Origin website for the ELLETT name and variants. 
Census - lots of individual address checks taken from certificates, wills etc. All ELLETT entries from the 1851 census CD for Devon, Norfolk and Warwickshire. All ELLETT entries from the census transcriptions on the Norfolk Transcriptions Archive website. All ELLETT entries from the 1881 census CD for England, Scotland, Wales and the Channel Islands. All ELLETT entries from the 1891 Norfolk pilot online. All of the 1891 census for district RG12 254 which covers part of Shoreditch and RG12 258 and 259 which cover part of Bethnal Green for ELLETT and any variation. All of the ELLETT entries in the 1901 online census index plus ELLET, ELLITT, ELLIT and ELLOT plus several transcripts of entries.
Parish Registers - all ELLETT entries from the Norfolk Transcription Archive website and the Somerset Parish Transcriptions website by Roy Parkhouse, all ELLETT entries from Chardstock, Dorset, all variants checked for selected years in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, several entries from different London parishes.
Probate and Wills - ELLETT names from the Principal Probate Calendars from 1858 to 2000, Transcripts of many wills proved between 1858 and 2000, ELLETT names from the PCC Wills and Administrations from 1701 to 1749, ELLETT names from the Perogative Court of Canterbury wills from 1750 to 1800, ELLETT names from Ely Probate Records from 1449 to 1858, ELLETT and ELLET names from the Consistory Court of Norwich, ELLETT names in Bedfordshire Probate Records from 1484 to 1858 and ELLETT names from the Cheshire Wills Index for 1492 to 1857.
Memorials and Monuments - ELLETT names from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website, ELLETT names from the Abney Park Cemetery website, ELLETT names from the National Burial Index.
Printed sources such as books, directories, newspapers etc - ELLETT names from the Index to The Times newspaper covering 1790 to 1905, three individual death and inquest reports from local newspapers, World War One memorials from Great Yarmouth newspaper and White's Devonshire Directory of 1850 reproduced online.
Military - Any ELLETT entries from the Armed Services birth, marriage and death indexes including wartime records, ELLETT entries from two CD's covering deaths from World War One and Two.
Occupations - ELLETT entry from a website for authors and ELLETT entries from Apprentice records
Miscellaneous UK records - ELLETT entries from other birth, marriage and death records including those occurring overseas, divorce records, marriage licences, Boyd's marriage index and school and university registers
South Africa - ELLETT entries from a book on immigration to South Africa from Britain and ELLETT entries from the website of National Archives of South Africa
New Zealand - ELLETT entries from a website detailing passenger arrivals to Auckland
Australia - ELLETT entries from websites listing immigrations and passenger lists, NSW birth, marriage and death entries and 1841 census entries for South Australia
Canada - ELLETT entries from websites for the British Home Children database and other immigration records
USA - ELLETT entries from the 1880 US census CD, ELLETT entries from the Ellis Island arrivals website plus many other ELLETT entries extracted from other online sources including Ancestry and Rootsweb.