MARY ANN ELLIOTT

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.

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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