William James Elliott – My Paternal Grandfather, joined the Worcestershire Regiment, when he was 17 yrs old (lied about his age). He had a toothache, and the Dentist pulled all his teeth out).Aunty BarbaraMummyDaddy (Michael)
Nanny, with a couple of her siblings (10 children).Eliza Jane Elliott – Daddy’s paternal grandmother.William James Elliott married Olive Edith Yule – my paternal grandparents.Daddy (Michael, a ‘babe in arms’), with the rest of his family!!Peter James Elliott – Died at 16 months, Daddy’s older brother – ( Daddy hadn’t been born yet).Nanny (Daddy’s mother).Daddy’s older sister (Joan Elliott), married Bill Ward – who hadn’t been approved of. Snowed on the wedding day.Joan (before she married), joined the ‘Land Army’, and worked on a farm in Devon (Barnstaple). during the Second World War. Apparently, the best years of her life.
Residence: Bexhill-on-Sea, Bournemouth and Eastbourne.
Mummy & Aunty Barbara.
Aunty Bay living at ‘Burch’s’, West Sussex. Throughout my life, I used to spend a lot of time, staying with my Great-Aunt.
Aunty Bay managed, to get one of the last ‘passage’, from Java, and the ship headed for New York. Aunty Bay lived and worked in America, until WWll ended. Uncle Harry spent the War, in a Japanese Prisoner of War Camp. Aunty Bay and Uncle Harry were reunited, once the War ended, and continued their married life, travelling around the world (Eg. America), and lived in Haywards Heath, and Chichester. Uncle Harry, never fully recovered from his horrific ordeal.
Jane (me).Jane, Ruth & Sarah Elliott (Michael & Liz’s girl’s).Tom & Barbara Beatty, travelling to NZ – migrating for ever.Tom Beatty (my Uncle) – Co-owned a plantation, Malaya, worked as a ‘master’, in a boys public school. Cousin to David Beatty (Lord Admiral), migrated to NZ, during the 1960s. Related to Sir Isaac Newton. Born and grew up, on Jersey (the Channel Islands). Tom Beatty married my Aunt Barbara (Purves), September 1963.William James Elliott & Olive Edith (nee Yule) – My paternal Grandparents. My Grandfather died before, I was born.An amalgamation, of two families (on Daddy’s & Mummy’s Wedding Day). Neither the Purves’ or the Elliott’s socialised again!! The Purves’ launched & holidayed on ships, while the Elliott’s worked on the ship (one relative, worked as a purser).
Dorothy with Mummy & Barbara.Manor House Asylum, was begun by Edward Francis Tuke, and his wife Mary, about 1837, who took a lease on Manor Farm in Chiswick Lane , (a late 17th century building). It was demolished in 1896. The 9th Duke of Devonshire rented Chiswick House, to the brothers Thomas Seymour and Charles Molesworth Tuke (sons of Thomas Harrington Tuke) from 1892 to 1928, when it was home to 30-40 private patients, before he sold it to Middlesex County Council in 1929. The two wings that housed the patients were demolished in 1956, as were many of the outbuildings, so little trace of the asylum remains today. John Connolly (27 May 1794 – 5 March 1866) , was an English psychiatrist. He published the volume Indications of Insanity in 1830. In 1839, he was appointed resident physician, to the Middlesex County Asylum, where he introduced the principle of non-restraint, into the treatment of the insane, which led to non-restraint, which became accepted practice throughout England. With colleagues, he founded the ‘Provincial Medical and Surgical Association’, and founded the ‘British and Foreign Medical Review’. Conolly, was born at Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, of an Irish Family. He spent four years, as a Lieutenant in the Cambridgeshire Militia, and lived for a year in France, before he embarked on a medical career. He graduated with an MD degree, at the University of Edinburgh, in 1821. After practising at Lewes, Chichester and Stratford-on-Avon, he was appointed Professor of the Practice of Medicine, at the University College, London in 1828. In 1832, with the co-operation of Sir Charles Hastings, and Sir John Forbes, he founded a small medical association, with a view to raising the standard of provincial practice, called the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association. His brother William Brice Conolly, became the association ‘s ‘Widows and Orphans Benevolent Fund’ treasurer and secretary. In later years, this grew in importance and membership, and is now known as the British Medical Association. Conolly died on 5 March, 1866 at Hanwell. His gravestone is still located at Kensington Cemetery, Uxbridge Road, Ealing. In 1844, Conolly ceased to be resident Physician at Hanwell, but continued to be a visiting physician, until 1852. On 21 July, 1852, John Conolly received an honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law. Sir John Connolly married Elizabeth Collins. They had four children: Edward Tennyson Conolly (who was born, while Conolly was working at Chichester, West Sussex). Edward became a lawyer, and in 1865, he (with his family), migrated to Picton, New Zealand. He continued to practise law, and became very active in politics. In line with his father’s concerns for humane treatment of the mentally ill, he introduced the concept of rehabilitation to the New Zealand penal system. He died in Auckland in 1908, and was interred in the City of Westminster Cemetery. John Conolly’s second daughter, Sophia Jane, married Thomas Harrington Tuke, in 1852. Tuke ran a private Lunatic Asylum at Manor House in Chiswick, Middlesex. (This side to the Tuke Family, is directly related to my maternal grandmother (Dorothy nee Tuke, and her sister, Aunty Bay nee Tuke). Conolly’s youngest child, Ann married Henry Maudsley, when she was thirty-six. (just two months, before her father’s death). Conolly’s obituary was written by Maudsley and shocked many, by its unusually unsympathetic tone. Henry Maudsley, had by then taken over the running of Lawn House. Ann predeceased Maudsley on 9th February, 1911, at the age of eighty-one.
Pregnant with Alexander.Aunty Bay’s & Uncle Harry’s house, Burch’s, West Sussex.
Grandpa’s Portrait – Alexander Purves. Born in Newcastle, worked as an ‘office boy’, London. Worked his way to being Chairman and Managing Director, to Lipton Tea, and Allied Supplies (known now as ‘Unilever’). Grandpa would have received a ‘Knighthood’, for services to do with Business, however the Second World War, happened, so it had to be postponed. The second time, he would have received a ‘Knighthood’, however he died, before he could be given the Honour.
Photograph taken in Lewisham, S.E. London. I remember having being told, to place my arms around my sisters, as one of them kept falling backwards.Daddy & I.
jane looking after Jane. Visiting Grandpa, Eastbourne.Aunty Barbara, (when she travelled to the UK, from Auckland) with me.Me, with Aunt Cissy & Aunt Cuckoo.
Mummy (pregnant with the twins), and carrying me.
Daddy with Gaylord (Grandpa’s Red Setter), Eastbourne.Mummy & Aunty Barbara, were weekly boarders (public school). My grandparents employed two Nannies (Head and Under). The twins were taught by a Governess, in the Summer House (with all the village children). The twins were 5 years old, when they left for school.
Aunty Bay
Uncle Harry – married to Aunty Bay. They lived in Java, for a few years, before the Second World War.
Mummy, with her twin Sister (born 19th October, 1935).
Grandpa was Managing Director/Chairman for Lipton Tea & Allied Supplies (now Unilever).
