Robert Jackson Elliott

 

Robert was an agricultural labourer, born in Garton, and worked on the farms around the Fitling, Garton, Humbleton areas. Robert married Sarah Ellis Hutchinson from Ryehill. They initially lived in Fitling, but moved to Sunk Island in 1874/5, where their final three children were born. They lived at Cottage Row Old Hall Lab. Cottage. Robert died in 1904, Sarah in 1906, and both are buried in Sunk Island churchyard.

 

Their children were:
Annie Elizabeth Elliott b.1866 Fitling d.1918 m.Thomas Henry Wright
Mary Jane Elliott b.1868 Fitling d.1951 Sunk Island m.Frederick Thomas Clark
James Elliott b.1870 Fitling d. m.Francess Scrowston
Eliza Elliott b.1875 Sunk Island d. m.Charles Maddison
Thomas Foster Elliott b.1877 Sunk Island d.1915 Sunk Island m.Annie Walker
John William Elliott b.1878 Fitling d.1899 Thorngumbald m.Betsey Walker
Eva Elliott b.1880 Sunk Island d.1953 Hull m.Arthur Messingham

 

MI for Robert and Sarah Elliott. Holy Trinity Church Sunk Island ©2004

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Last update 19 November, 2006