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| James Elliott | ||
| FRANCES JAMES ELLIOTT----- 1865-? | | | | | | | |
| Alice E.A. Elliott ---------------------------- 1891-? Bessie Jane Elliott -------------------- | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Unknown |
| Thomas Angus Elliott --------------------- 1897-? | | | | | | | |
 Aubrey Percy Thomas Elliott-----1899-1979 | | | | | | | |
| Alice Ellen Angus 1861-? |
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Frances Elliott brought his family up in inner-city London, and later generations identified strongly as Londoners - so it came as something as a surprise to discover that he is himself from the West Country. He was born in Wells, an ancient cathedral city in the flat marshlands and rich rural heritage of Somerset. When he was about 24, he met and married Alice Angus, a London girl born in Lambeth. So it's fair to conjecture that he left school and went almost immediately to London to make his fortune, as so many country lads did then. He and Alice had four children, two girls and two boys, all born and brought up in inner London. By his mid-30s, he was working as a horsekeeper/groom, probably at one of the many inns around Islington in London where he and his family were then living in a block of tenement flats called Cornwall Cottages. He would have been about 50 years old when the First World War broke out. Did he serve in the forces? Or was he deemed too old? The search continues.... |