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MARY ANN ELLIOTT |
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Mary
Ann
ELLIOTT was born in 1828 at Shiney Row, Houghton- Le-Spring,
Sunderland. In 1851 she
married Adam Laybourn at Pensher Church, Sunderland.
They had a family of 11 children.
She died in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1906. Mary
Ann was the eldest daughter of Robert
ELLIOTT
and Susannah WILKINSON.
Their other children included Jane, Susan, Ebenezer Mark (died
1842), Elizabeth, Isabella, Walter, Thomas, Mark E. and Robert. Mary Ann (Elliott) Laybourn in 1901. |
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Father
Robert Elliott was an ironfounder at the Pensher Foundry, Davison Place. The
Elliott family home in Houghton-Le-Spring is believed to have been visited
in 1914 by Mary Ann’s namesake grand-daughter, Mary Anne Elliott Eyre. If anyone knows anything about other members of the Elliott family could you please contact Barbara at barbmet@xtra.co.nz
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