ELLIOTT FAMILY HISTORY, MAINE
Pearl Elliott and Mary Fraser Elliott, Lewiston Maine

Pearl Laforest Elliott
  • Born July 26, 1885 Milltown(sp?) Massachusetts (on Death cert)
  • There is a Milltown Maine and a Milltown NB Canada;
  • Milltown Mass could have been a misspelling or a village ?
  • (Contradictory birth info: His daughter Margaret Ross Elliott's birth certificate says her father Pearl was born in St. John New Brunswick.
  • His Parents: Andrew J. Elliott and Olive (Howe) Elliott.
  • Occupation: leather cutter (shoe factories in Maine? Pearl worked in Brockton, Mass in the 1930's? - shoe factories?
  • Residence: 657 Main Street Lewiston Maine. He lived in Lewiston 40 years - from the age of 27 in 1912. He was a retired shoeworker.
  • Died: March 8, 1953 (Maine Death Certificate)
  • Rheumatoid arthritis; died of coronary heart disease and coronary thrombosis
  • Buried Litchfield Maine, Elliott Family plot

    Wife: Mary(Mae) Fraser Elliott

  • Born February 19, 1884 in Lewiston
  • Died October 30, 1956.
  • Buried in the family plot (Fraser) in Litchfield Maine.

  • Their Children:

  • James Elliott: born February 1908; died February 1996
  • He married Marcia Prince; one son David Elliott

  • Margaret : born April 14, 1910 Lewiston Maine;
  • Occupation: nurse.
  • She met John McLaughlin in Boston while working as a nurse. She later became a nursing supervisor at Mt. Auburn Hospital, Cambridge
  • Married: John S. McLaughlin April 19, 1937 in Lewiston, Maine.
  • Margaret died February 24, 1982 of ovarian cancer.
  • Buried Ridgelawn Cemetery Watertown Mass
  • Four children of John and Margaret:
  • Stephen (1940-1985)
  • James
  • Mildred
  • Arthur
  • Margaret and John had 8 grandchildren at the time of her death in 1982 (actually one was on the way).

    Mary Fraser Elliott came from a large family.

  • The Fraser's were originally from Scotland but had settled in Nova Scotia.
  • They came to Maine around 1880. Eight Fraser children survived infancy.
  • Her sister Margaret (nicknamed Gigan)ended up living in Watertown with her niece Margaret McLaughlin
    . Gigan (Margaret) saved family items such as her parents marriage certificates and a family church record.


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    SEE ALSO FRASER
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