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The Elliott Family

The Elliotts in Ireland The Elliott family was from Clones in County Fermanagh, Ireland. Father Michael Elliott was a lawyer, and married to Anna Fitzgerald:

    Michael Elliott, b. early 1800's
    = Anna Fitzgerald, b. early 1800's

    • Bessie (eldest)
    • Isobel (Aunt Belle)
    • Mary Eleanor, born between 1844/45
    • Martha
    • Nan
    • Edward James, b.c. 1848

IRELAND
Mary marries Francis Morton
c.1864		 Sometime around the early 1860's, Mary married Francis Morton continue this story from County Wicklow, and eventually immigrated to Canada in 1880.
The cousins John and Michael
c.1880		 Martha married one of her own cousins named Elliott and had four children. She apparently died while the family was still young, and her two sons John and Michael joined Mary and Francis' continue this story emigration to Canada.
Aunt Nanny Nan, a.k.a. Aunt Nanny, married George Knight and had two children, Georgina and Luke. Georgina married a Mr. Hubbard and lived in Detroit. Aunt Nanny often visited with Francis and Mary in Ontario on her way to see Georgina in Michigan. Apparently Nan's and Mary's families were close, as a large number of photographs of Nan and Georgina and her children were sent to Ontario. They were passed on to Mary's son George D.L., then to his nephew Bill, and to his grandson Martyn (myself). They show young children in the 1890's -- Anna, Ned and another little Hubbard girl. I believe a man in an admiral's uniform is George Knight. The pictures are of less interest to me than the people, though. There are so few pictures of the Morton family -- perhaps someone named Hubbard, from Detroit, has some.
Edward James Elliott
1848-1877		 E.J.ELLIOTT 1877Edward James Elliott was the namesake of his nephew Edward James Morton, Mary's son and my great-grandfather. He became a lawyer like his father, but died at age 29 of diphtheria 2 Nov 1877. His sister Mary brought over a picture of James in his Freemason's apron, and a framed letter of consolation from his lodge. The picture hung in the Bradford house from 1905 to 1966 and is shown here, and I remember the letter in my grandfather's house at the farm from 1972 to 1984. I'm not sure where it is now.