From my Dad:
Walters grandfather Charles had a brother William, born 1836.
In 1871 he was in Bradford with his family and was a cigar maker, his wife Catherine was born in Castleton on the Isle of Man. She died in 1874 and William married again to Margaret Davidson in Everton. In 1885 they were in Conchan, Isle of Man where several children were born, one of which was Gertrude in 1887.
In 1889 Gertrude was at the Arnot Street School in Liverpool and in 1911 she was with her Aunt in Cheshire. In 1914 she married James H Elliott in Tynemouth. They had a son, Leslie Dalrymple Elliott ( and maybe other children) and that Leslie married Violet Lea in Liverpool in 1945. I met Les and Vi from time to time and they came to Italy once on holiday. He was a professional photographer, retired by the time I knew him, I think, and I remember, on one occasion when we went to their house in Childwall, him showing me a top of the range Hasselblad camera that he used. As far as I know he wasn’t a fashion photographer but had pictures in magazines like the London Illustrated News. I have often wondered how my mother and Leslie were related and it was just by coincidence that I came across the name Elliott researching Gertie and Jim. I still don’t know what relativel her Great Uncles Grandson was and it surprises me that she would be in contact with such a distant relative. There is a reference to a Leslie Elliott at St Pauls Infant School, Byle St, Toxteth being admitted to St Micheals (another school?) in 1922.