The Elliot(T) Family From Scotland to Fiji

THE ELLIOT(T) FAMILY

from SCOTLAND to FIJI

Yvonne McKissock

Copyright © 2019 Yvonne McKissock

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Dedication

This book is dedicated to the memory of the children of John Roderick Grant Elliot and Miliana Masutawa Elliot, and their descendants.

‘I have a great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you are going.’ Maya Angelou

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND THANKS

I wish to thank Susie V Elliott for her assistance and support and deeply appreciate her efforts with this eBook and the paperback which was published in May 2019 by amazon.com and other amazon sites.

I’d like to gratefully acknowledge the invaluable assistance of Linda Elliott Callaghan for the UK Record search on John Roderick Grant Elliot. Also thanks to Paul Hector Elliott for his research on Miliana Elliot nee Masutawa. I’d specially like to thank Kevin Nair and Marie Maharaj for their assistance on the Maharaj family.

I would like also to gratefully acknowledge the love and support I have received from Doreen & James Elliott (RIP 2018) during the years of compiling this published ebook and the paperback to be published in May 2019.

Grateful thanks to all the families, friends and their networks for their generosity, effort and support in getting this ebook published and the paperback to be published in May 2019.

Adi Alumita Beranaliva Tuiketei

Adi Caucau Saubalavu

Adele Robinson

Alan Lota Simpson

Alex Swann

Alexander R Elliott

Angela Akao

Anna Campbell

Bernadette Mohammed

Bill Rounds

Callum Powell

Caroline Larson

Cecelia McLennan

Christal Athanasopoulos

Crystal Lilo

Christine Solomon

Cynthia Elliot

Cynthia Lockington

Dale Ting

Debbie Singh

Delores Chung

Demares Vula

Deve & Milika Simpson

Fea’o Searell

Filomena Nurmela

Gene Robinson

Giles & Keresi Simpson

Gordon & Emily Elliott

Grace Robinson

Helen Reynolds

Hubert & Titilia Elliot

Jacqueline Nasedra

Joann Loko

Joanne Hamilton

Joshline Caine

Judith Pagkale

Kevin Nair

Kusitino Otterbech

Larry Thomas

Laureen Medcalfe

Lavonne Donunamadigi

Lawrence & Mere Simpson

Leba Robinson

Linda Ah Sam

Linda Callaghan

Lloyd Molloy

Losalini Davis

Marama Kennedy

Maree Larson

Marie Maharaj

Marion Robinson

May Koi

Mere Mateni

Merle McGiddy

Michelle Robinson

Milieanna Holmes

Milianne Robinson

Miriama Elliott

Moira Campbell

Molly Mead

Motiana Finau

Narelle Dakers

Nerissa Ponzoni

Nicholas Bennion jr.

Raymond Bennion

Robert & Matilda Elliot

Rodwell & Alisi Campbell

Sainimili Elliot

Sainimili Sila-Elliott

Salome Nainoca

Sarah Monga

Sesoni Komaisoso

Sharon Bower

Shirley Sami

Siteri Elliott

Sophia Smith

Susie Annie Elliott

Tanith Ryan

Timothy Lilo

Veronica Kingdon

Waverly Lilo

William Brian Powell

Zelda Tokalaulevu

Zoya Foster

About the Author

Born and raised in New Zealand, Yvonne now resides in Sydney, NSW, Australia with her daughter, son in law and 3 grandchildren. She has been interested in family history as long as she can remember and has published five family history books and 8 ebooks. Her interests vary from reading, travelling, collecting old family photos, spending time with the young grandchildren.

Susie V Elliott has been included on this page for her huge contribution to this book. An Elliott family historian, without her help compiling family data and photos it would not have been possible to publish this book. The family gratefully appreciates of all Susie’s hard work.

Linda Elliott Callaghan has been included on this page for her invaluable assistance with the UK Record search on John Roderick Grant Elliot. Linda hired Anthony Adolph (renowed Genealogist, Writer, and broadcaster) in London, England to research John Roderick Grant Elliot. Anthony Adolph has provided invaluable research documentation for John Roderick Grant Elliot’s family which is included in this family book.

About This eBook

This ebook offers the same version of descendants of Glaswegian John Roderick Grant Elliot and his wife Miliana Masutawa of The Elliot(t) Family from Scotland to Fiji book. It documents all the names and dates from the book (304 pages published May 2019) with the family stories etc. Only part missing from the published book is all the family photographs which is available in paperback.

Paperback can be bought from amazon.com, amazon.com.au , amazon.co.uk and other outlets.

It gives an account of John Elliot’s Scottish background including a family chart of his seven children of whom the Fiji Elliott’s are descendants. The seven descendants are grouped in sections and again into chapters for easy access and cross-referencing. It lists over 1000 direct desendants from 1860s to 2018 of John Roderick Grant Elliot and his wife Miliana Masutawa of the Fiji Islands This accessible eformat of The Elliot(t) Family from Scotland to Fiji will enable anyone interested in family history in general and in the Fiji Elliot(t)’s in particular to quickly trace salient bits of information if they so wish.

The paperback book is a first published account of the Elliot(t) descendants of Fiji. Upon the request of Lady Margaret Eliott of Redheugh, Clan Chief of the Elliot Clan of Scotland, a copy of the paperback book will be displayed for visitors in the Elliot Clan Room in Redheugh, Scotland (www.elliotclan.com/history/clan-room/)

Table of Contents

SECTION 1: Introduction by Susie V Elliott

SECTION 2: The Background of the Elliot Family in Scotland

SECTION 3: Descendants of John Roderick Grant Elliot and Miliana Masutawa

Thomas Richard Elliott

CHAPTER 1: Isabella Elliott

CHAPTER 2: Filomena Elliott

CHAPTER 3: Billy William Elliott

CHAPTER 4: Nacanieli Qilu Elliott

CHAPTER 5: Sitino Elliott

CHAPTER 6: Thomas Richard Elliott

CHAPTER 7: Celia Sisilian Elliott

CHAPTER 8: David Lenard Elliott

CHAPTER 9: Judith Green Elliott

CHAPTER 10: Paul Kadavu Elliott

CHAPTER 11: Hubert Joseph Andrew Elliott

CHAPTER 12: Gordon Luke Donovan Elliott

CHAPTER 13: Millie Anna Elliott

SECTION 4: Sili Heffernan Elliott

SECTION 5: John Robert Elliott

SECTION 6: Caroline Margarite Elliott

SECTION 7: James Joseph Elliott

SECTION 8: Alice Elliott

SECTION 9: Ellen Naomi Elliott

SECTION 10: Elliot(t) Family Graves in Fiji

SECTION 1:

Introduction

By Susie V Elliott

The first time I heard the two words Elliott and Scotland, spoken together was from my mother Sainimili Elliott. She was a lady who took a keen interest in family trees, especially in her iTaukei roots (b. Sainimili M. Sila, koro o Vunisei, Toga, Rewa; vasu i Ucunivanua, Verata, Tailevu) and in her Elliott in-laws. She also took an interest in everyone that ever came home. Gently quizzing them about their names, their family connections, and joining the dots as she went. She delighted in discussing something about their lineage that they may not have known themselves. Her capacity to recall names and dates was unwavering. I once mistook her curiosity for rudeness and said as much. It was only later that I came to realise that her gift of recall came from her iTaukei upbringing where the proper code of behaviour when meeting someone for the first time required that you state your name (O au / I am) and then describe where you hailed from (Au marama ni / I’m a woman of). In this way, my mother catalogued and committed to memory names and details of families and friends past and present. So it was natural that she became my first go-to person when I started to question my Elliott roots. She told me that her knowledge of the Elliott families came from her mother-in-law (Mary Waucu Elliot), and what she had gleaned along the way during the years of her married life to my late father Dr Hubert Elliott. I am glad to say that some of her recollections of those years is included here in the book.

I was raised in a house that wasn’t wholly iTaukei, nor did it strictly follow a European / kaivalagi way of life. It was a Part-European (kailoma) household that was influenced by both cultures. I was also aware that my home life was not dissimilar to many other multi-ethnic families in Suva where I grew up, and indeed around the country as a whole. Because of this I discovered a natural ability for moving seamlessly between the two cultures; a straddling of two worlds, one might say. I would also learn that the gift of such a lineage meant there were always two sides to a tale and that I should always walk with consideration towards my fellow men. And so it was from my mother I learnt that my paternal great-grandfather was a Scotsman who had come to Fiji via Australia and worked as an engineer for the ‘Seasa’, or Colonial Sugar Refinery Ltd (CSR), in Ba, Fiji. He met and married his wife Miliana Masutawa there, and together raised their nine children, seven of which are covered in these pages. When pressed to tell me more about my Scottish forebear, she’d say the families didn’t know and it was long before her time. Discussions with my father yielded the same result. From listening to her, a hunger to know more about this mysterious ancestor, John Elliot, was kindled. In the intervening years and wherever I could I kept notes, contacting archives in Fiji and overseas in an effort to find something about him through databases, shipping logs, and so forth. I turned to reading what I could on the background of the Elliots of Scotland and Ireland. I looked at the history of CSR in Fiji during 1880s-1900s and visited the Rarawai mill in Ba, now under Fiji Sugar Corporation Ltd (FSC). Once, accompanied by my late cousin Mark Campbell, we spoke with an official at the mill office about their archival records only to be told that when the sugar mill changed hands, all ‘surviving’ records were boxed and sent to CSR Ltd headquarters in Australia. Nothing was left behind. Like many others, I tried unsuccessfully to locate his unmarked gravesite at the old CSR cemetery in Rarawai. In the spring of 1997, I