Ancestral Trails: Elliott

This page covers Leicestershire families in the maternal line of John's grandmother Priscilla May HAMBLETON. The narrative starts with John's third great grandfather William ELLIOTT.

William ELLIOTT (b.1791)

William and his wife Mary had seven children in Shearsby between 1813 and 1830. After Mary's death in 1836, William married Ann In 1841, they were living in Shearsby where William was employed as a grazier.

Benjamin ELLIOTT (b.1821)

Benjamin was born in Shearsby the fourth child of William and Mary ELLIOTT. He worked as a butcher and was living in Southgate Street, Leicester at the time of his marriage to Frances HARRIS. The family then moved back to Shearsby where they had five children prior to the death of Frances in 1867. In 1881, Benjamin was living with his brother John, butcher & grazier, in High Street, Shearsby.

Of Benjamin's siblings, Charlotte (b.1813) married Thomas READ and had at least three children. John (b.1815) married Sarah WARDEN and had nine children. William (b.1818), licensed hawker, married Ann ALLIN. Their two children were born at Gilmorton, but baptised at Shearsby. Thomas (b.1823), licensed hawker and latterly also an innkeeper, married Jane SMART and had at least two children.

Little is known about Benjamin's youngest sister Eliza (b.1826) or his youngest brother Richard (b.1830) who died in 1863.

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Priscilla ELLIOTT (b.1850)

Priscilla was the third of the five children born to Benjamin and Frances ELLIOTT. In 1870, she married John's great grandfather Henry HAMBLETON.

Of Priscilla's siblings, Edwin (b.1847) was employed as a labourer in Shearsby. He married Mary CLOWN and they had one child. Alfred (b.1848) married Ann WELLS and they had four children. He worked initially as an agricultural labourer, but by 1877 was working in Leicester as a dyer in the hosiery industry. Harris (b.1855) married Annie from Great Ayton, Yorkshire and is recorded on the 1881 census working as a brick burner in Middlesborough. Keziah (b.1861) moved to Leicester where she worked in the hosiery trade.