John Elliot
(1802-1857)
Hellen Scott
(1806-)
John Smart
(Cir 1800-)
Christina Aitken
(Cir 1810-)
Nenion Elliot
(1834-1907)
Margaret Smart
(Cir 1835-)
Nenion Elliot
(1865-)

 

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Nenion Elliot

  • Born: 1865

  General Notes:

Jane Edwards notes:
I don"t know if you want to know what happened to Nenion - after his legal apprenticeship he went to live in Edinburgh taking lodgings in St Andrews Square and continued to progress in the legal profession. In 1862 he married the Margaret, the youngest daughter of Edinburgh butcher John Smart and Christina Aitken.The Smarts lived in the tall tenements of West Nicolson Street. His home at no. 15 is still there though built in the early part of the 19th century - it has been tastefully restored after a heritage group foiled a demolition plan.
The couple moved to 9 Brighton Street not far away ( five storey flats of which all have been demolished to make way for the Museum of Scotland. No.9 is the last one to survive, overshadowed by the museum wall.
There my grandfather John was born in Dec. 1863, followed by Nenion in 1965 and Margaret in 1867.
The family then moved to Wharton place by what is now The Meadows now a park but then there was a loch, now drained, where John played. Wharton Place was demolished and the Royal Infirmary built there . The hopital is gone now and its back to flats again.
Robert was born there in 1869, James in 1871 Christina in 1873 and Edward in 1875.
Nenion senior in his turn was to lose children to emigration - Robert and Edward went off to South Africa - I think they got jobs in grocery stores. Robert caught typhoid fever and died at 21, Edward fought in the Boer war having joined the Imperial Light Infantry. He took part in the battle of Spion Kop and his daughter Margaret placed his wartime diary in a military museum in South Africa.
Another to emigrate (to Australia) was Nenion junior who had qualified as a lawer but sadly developed TB. The ony hope was to emigrate to Australia's sunny clime (in 1888) where he lived another 19 years and apparently died of heart failure in the pub with his mates!
Margaret became a music teacher, Christina had "nervous trouble" James went to sea and was engaged to be married but died of meningitis at San Francisco.
Only Edward and my grandfather John had children. Edward, who later had his grocery store in Durban married and Anie Black and had three - Florence who never married, Margaret who couldn't have children but adopted, and Ronald who went down with HMS Gloucester off Crete in WW11.
John my grandfather after a hated apprenticeship in a religious tract society shop. managed to get through the Civil Service exams and became a customs officer and was posted to most of the major ports. However during a spell at Leith he met and married Margaret Melville
the daughter of John Melville a house painter. Margaret had spent her childhood at 17 Nicolson Street there probable being a connection betwen John Smart and Margaret's mothers people, also Smart. John Melville had mysteriously become pretty wealthy by this time but was later to lose most of it.
John's children were both born in Edinburgh at Hillside Crescent, my father Nenion in June 1898 and my aunt Isabella in 1901 - and started school in Edinburgh, but John was moved to Liverpool where my father attended Wallasey Grammar school. They were delighted when John got a permanent indoor desk job in the Aberdeen customs office, and they settled at 6, Gladstone Place.
Margaret John's wife died in 1911 after being ill for severaal years with Bright's disease. There followed W1 in which my father Nenion took part as a Signaller attatched to a Royal Garrison Artillery battery. Her survived the war with no significant physical injuries but took some time to get over it, throwing himself into his divinity studies and being ordained as a Church of Scotland minister.
In 1939 he married my mother, Margaret Skinner whom he had known when they were teenagers but who had gone their own ways my mother to teach in England and Nenion to Lanark.
I was born in 1943 in Falkirk, when my father was minister of St Lawrence Church Slamannan but we then moved to the parish of Sorbie in Wigtownshire where my father was minister till his death in 1956 from pneumonia and heart trouble.
After my mother's death in 1960 I moved away, eventually to London where I met and married my late husband, Michael Edwards from Portsmouth. I had two daughters - Janet b. 1968 in London and Sara b.1970 in Norwich. Janet had tweo chilren, Isabel b. 1999 and Imogen b. 2001. Their surname is Pelham, but Janet is now divorced. Sara never married her partner Tony Marriot but they have two girls, Jasmine Marriott b. 2004 and Alysia b. 2006. My husband Mike died in October last year after a long struggle with cancer - he was 72


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