• General Notes

  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.

Details of Gertrude's family with James H Elliot