Young Andrew Elliott (1851-1932) was born in Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec. In the mid-1800s, the Upper Ottawa Valley was opening up and new immigrants were arriving to take up the government’s offer of free land for homesteaders. The Ottawa was the highway and there was safer water to travel on the Quebec side of the river; the Ontario side had a number of ferocious rapids. Today they are the foundations of a huge white-water rafting business; but back then travellers coming upstream avoided them. The Ontario side of the river had the better quality surveyed and opened farmland.
His father Hugh Elliott and his mother Mary Ann Hannah settled in Clarendon Township, across the river from Horton Township in Ontario.
Andrew Elliott (1851-1932) m. Marguerite “Maggie” Jane Shield (1867-1954) on October 18, 1888. 1888 Andrew & Margaret Marriage. She was the daughter of Alex Shields (1840-1928) and May Ann Barr (1843-1948). See SHIELDS entry. Margaret had been born when the Shields were still at Fitzroy; but at the time of her wedding they were living in Westmeath Township. The 16 year difference in ages was not uncommon in those days as the men would often stay single until they had established themselves.
By the 1911 Census they were farming the S 1/2 of Lot 18, Con. 8, EML on Pleasant Valley Road. There were 8 children and one boarder named William Dunning in the household.
The children of Andrew and Maggie were:
1. Mary Alice Elliott (1889 – ) m. Edward Johnson (1883- ) in 1913 in St. Augustine Anglican Church in Village of Beachburg.
2. Hugh Alexander “Alex” Elliott (1891 –1975) m. Susan Teston and raised one son Royden Elliott. 1926 Alex & Susan Marriage. They retired to Almonte, Ontario and is buried there. He had taken over the home farm on Pleasant Valley Road from his father and farmed there until its sale to Arndell and Ellen McBride in 1938.
3. Arthur Lawrence “Lorne” Elliott (1895 – 1954) m. Anna Mary “Hazel” Bromley (1899-1988). She was the daughter of James Henry Bromley ( -1936) m. Elizabeth Ann Griffith. See BROMLEY entry. 1895 Authur Lawrence Birth.
4. Marguerite D. Elliott (1896 – )
5. Agnes Beatrice Elliott (1898 –
6. Sarah “Sadie” Eva Elliott (1901 – ) 1901 Sarah Eva Birth
7. Cedric George Elliott (1904 – 1929) – died of tuberculosis at age 24. 1929 Cedric Death
8. Clarence Andrew Elliott (1907 –1971) m. Blanch Ann Byce on 08 November, 1928, in the Presbyterian Church. Buried at Wesley United church Cemetery, Pembroke.