Alexander Elliot

[bwill]

My great grandfather Alexander Elliot was born at Langholm to Henry and Janet about 1850 .He left home as a young boy travelling to Australia and after some years onto New Zealand.I'd love to know about Alexanders family and desendants in Scotland?

[down-under]

Hello

1851

Parish No 839

Langholm
Dumfriesshire
address John Street
George Elliot age 42 born Canobie farm lab
Agnes wife age 37 rest born Langholm
Margaret dau age 14
John son age 12
James son age 11
Elizabeth dau age 8
Alexander son age 6
William son age 3
Mary dau age 1
Thomas Armstrong visitor age 18 Tailor(journeyman) born
Newcastleton Rexburgh


Pam

[down-under]

1861

Registration No 814
Canonbie Dumfriesshire
address Todhillwood Cashead

George Elliot age 52 Dumfriesshire Annuitant?? lab
Agness Beattie wife age 48 Langholm
James son age 20 Langholm
William son age 13 Langholm
Mary dau age 11 Langholm
Walter son age 9 Langholm
Jane dau age 6 Canonbie
Ellen dau age 3 Canonbie
Christina dau age 1 Canonbie

Pam

[osprey]

Welcome to Rootschat!   

Did the names of Alexander's parents come from a death certificate? If so, did it give the maiden name for Janet?

I can see a Henry Elliott in Langholm 1851, but he is unmarried & still with his parents, David & Isabel. Also, he has brothers Alexander, David & James. Can't see any of this family in 1861, so possibly they all emigrated.

 

[down-under]

Hello
Escuse me the wrong parents. 

Pam

[bwill]

Thanks for your replies .Alexanders New Zealand marriage cert. shows his parents as Henry and Janet ( I think nee Halliday). Family stories tell how Alexander was banished from home at about the age of 10 and was assisted on his journey to Australia by a seafaring relative.This maybe true or may have been embelished over time.

[osprey]

when did Alexander marry and how old was he? Anything to help tie down detalis as I'm not finding Henry's marriage or Alexander's birth.

 

[bwill]

Alexander was married at Invercargill NZ to Clara Wickens  on 10th Mar 1889 ,he was 39 and she was 32 .We have no firm info .on Alexanders early life ,family or siblings. Our info says Alexander was born at Langholm maybe they moved from this area?.Found a record of an Mr A Elliot arriving at Bluff (the port near Invercargill on the ship Tararua from Melbourne in Dec.1869.Nothing  any earlier than that I'm afraid.

[walterc]

From Langholm Archive Centre's transcription of the Eskdale and Liddesdale Advertiser:
1877-12-19   
People   
Death at Napier, New Zealand on 5 October 1877   
Henry Elliot, sheep farmer, formerly of Lymiecleuch, near Hawick

There's 12 records obtained by putting in "Henry Elliot" into the name box here:
http://www.langholmarchive.org.uk/lookup.php
but no hits for Janet.

Bruce