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Marriage: Children:
  1. George Elliott: Birth: 1847. Death: 1850/1860

  2. James Elliott: Birth: 1850. Death: 3 NOV 1904

  3. Mary Elliott: Birth: 1853. Death: DECEASED


Notes
a. Note:   f Gabriel Elliott". She says:
 According to the American Genealogical Research Institute the original Elliott families were probably Normans or closely associated with the Normans after the conquest of England in 1066. There are three reasons for this assumption: the Normans displaced the old Saxon nobility; the earliest coats of arms are associated with those of the elliotts up along the Scottish border; and the king of Scotland hired many landless Norman knights to defend his southern border. The early Elliotts of Scotland were probably among these young Norman knights. This family was of high birth; the men were good with their swords, but poor in land. They most often hired out as castle wordens. In the passage of the centuries and with numerous descendants they acquired titles and prestige. The elliotts of Stobs are the strongest branch of the Elliott clan in Scotland because the Earl of Minto, one of the most powerful Scottish lords, was an Elliott of that house. the Minto House is probably the ancestral home of our family.
 The Minto House is located in Denholm, Scotland, an area of land referre to as the "Southern Uplands" or the "Border Country". Denholm is six miles from Hawick on the Jedburgh and Kelso roads. The town is situated around a spacious willage green. In the early 1940's the estate was converted to a girls school, but was taxed out of existence around 1965. In 1970 on a visit to these homelands the house and grounds were in a state of deterioration, but so very charming. The entrance drive winds up a tree-lined hill, over a well constructed bridge and through a dell filled with fabulous growth. A wild carrot plant the size of a small tree made one feel as if they were in Alice's Wonderland. The house, like all other Scottish homes in that part of the country, was very plain. It was built in a V shape of grey stone and over the central door was the Elliott coat of arms. It was a huge house three sories high with a circular two stored high columned entrance. The grounds had at one time been beautifully landscaped and the terrace fromal garden still contained some lovely statuary. The servants quarters and the livery were not visible from the front, but were attached to the house on the left and hidden by the woods. These sections of the house were not of the massive stone, but were of the old English Tudor low-roofed farm style. It was obvious that horses and potatoes had been raised on this estate farm, similar to the type of farming done by James Elliott, second generation, in the late eighteen hundreds on Livezey's Lane in Mt. Airy, Pennsylvania.
 Fifteen miles south of the Minto House on the Newcastleton Road is Hermitage Castle. Robert Elliott of Redhench was captain of Hermitage Castle in 1491 and was the son of Robert Elwold of Redhench. Elwold meant a person who lived in an enchanted forest. It is here that Mary Queen of Scots visited Bothwell when he lay wounded. Sir Walter Scott was a frequent visitor of the Border Country, and often stopped at the Minto (Elliott) house.
 Gabriel Elliott and his wife Anne Graham emigrated to the US from Ireland about 1847. He was the first in our direct line of Ellitts to come to the states and is believed to be a descendant of the Elliotts of Denholm, Scotland according to Clifford Elliott. Gabriel and Anne had three children: George, James and Mary. George died as a child. James married Ida Eugenia Menige on Sept. 10, 1876 and Mary married Robert McLaughlin. Ida Eugenia and James had ten shildren but one boy died in infancy and another boy was stillborn. The eight living children were Ida, James, Mary, Charles, Earl, Clifford, Herbert, and George. James and Ida move their family from PA to Livezey's Lane, Mt. Airy, PA. In 1973 Clifford Elliott in a personal letter to his grandson, Frederick Clifford Elliott, described his parents and childhood as follows:
 "My mother, Ida Eugenia Menige Elliott, was a devout Christian, tender-hearted, sweet, and kind. She devoted her life to rearing all of us children. I could nover recall her becoming impatient or losing her temper, regardless of the trials and tribulations.
 My dad, James Elliott, who was of Scotch-Irish descent, had been very successful as a young businessman. He was a great horse fancier, which accounts, I suppose, for the reason we move to Livesey's Lane. One of the horses he trained was known as 'Early Rose' which he sold to a member of the Vanderbilt family for a reputed price of $13,000. He trained and raced trotters and pacers and was a man of very high morals, never indulging in tobacco, liquor or gambling. He loved the outdoors, usually retired about 9:00pm and rose at 5:00am and spent practically the entire day at the stables. He commanded the respect of everyone with whom he was acquainted and was known among the racing fraternity as 'Honest Jim'. He was injured in a race a Bethlehem, PA which proved fatal.
 He was a very rigid disciplinarian, attending the Mehodist Church every Sunday often walking several miles each way over the hills of Roxbury. No matter what the elements, the family would usually drive to Church by horse and carriage and in the afternoon the children all walked to Sunday School through the country side three miles away.
 We were not permitted to ride on a street car on the Sabbath, never had a Sunday paper, never permitted to use slang of any kind, and forever being admonished to be kind, circumspect and considerate of others."
 Ida Eugenia passed away in 1903 at the age of 49 and James died the following year. After the death of James, the oldest son, Jim, become the dead of the household. At the time of his father's death, Jim was attending Bucknell College where he was studying for the Ministry. He moved the family from Livezey's Lane to Germantown, where they all lived together for three or four years until marriages caused the happy group to "leave the family fireside and go their separate ways."
 The 1840 Census of PA does not list Gabriel Elliott. The 1850 census shows him living in Ward 3 of Kensington Township in Philadelphia. It states that both he and his wife, Anne, are from Ireland. (Note: he could still be a descendant from the HOuse of Elliott in Denholm, Scotland.). Gabriel was 25 years old and Anne was 24. their first child, George, was 3 years old and born in Philadelphia, so Gabriel and Anne must have emigrated tot he U.S. about 1847. The 1860 census shows them living in Ward 2 of Philadelphia. At that time his property was valued at $800 and his personal effects at $800. Gabriel according to the census was a tanner.
Note:   Jane Elliott Linnell wrote some information on our family line in her book "The Descendants o


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