John Elliott (1808 – 1893)

Martha Elliott (1820 – 1895)

Maria Westcombe Elliott (1851 – 1856)

John Elliott was baptized on 28 January 1808 in Huntley in Gloucestershire, the son of Samuel and Diana Elliott. He married Martha Westcombe on 2 January 1837 at St Nicolas in Newbury. Martha was born circa 1820 in Newbury.

In the 1841 census John and Martha were living with children Samuel aged 3 and Eliza aged 1 and John’s mother Dinah aged 65 in Northbrook Street. John was recorded as a carpenter. Ten years later in the 1851 census John and Martha were living with children Samuel aged 12, Eliza aged 11, George aged 9, John aged 6 and James aged one in West Street with John recorded as a carpenter.

John and Martha had another daughter Maria Westcombe in 1851. Maria died February 1856 aged 4 and was buried at Newtown Road Cemetery on 9 February 1856.

The family were still living in West Street at number eight in the 1861 census with three children John aged 16, James Jones aged 11 and Charles Henry aged 4. John was still a carpenter and son John an apprentice grocer. John and Martha were recorded at 7 West Street in the 1871 census with children Eliza aged 30 and Charles aged 4 with John recorded as a

builder.

In the 1881 census John and Martha were recorded living in Clewer with their daughter Eliza Hodgett and her family with John now a retired builder.

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By the 1891 census John and Martha were back at 7 West Street along with daughter Eliza Hodgett and granddaughter Catherine Hodgett aged 11.

John died 19 January 1893 at West Street. It is thought he was buried at Newtown Road Cemetery but some burial records in January and February 1893 are missing. An announcement appeared in the Newbury Weekly News dated 26 January 1893 which read:

ELLIOTT Jan 19, at West Street, Newbury, John Elliott, aged 85.

Martha died December 1895 and was buried at Newtown Road Cemetery on 21 December 1895.

Author: Gerald Soper
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