Margaret (Diamond) Elliott (abt. 1829 - 1917)

Born about 1829 in prob. West Indies

Ancestors

Wife of William Elliott — married 16 Aug 1854 in Christ Church St. Laurence, Sydney, Australia

Died 18 Feb 1917 at about age 88 in Homebush, New South Wales, Australia

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MARGARET DIAMOND 1828 - 1917

Margaret Diamond was educated in The Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea, London; admitted to the school on the 27th September 1834. She was five years old, her father's regiment is listed as "Military Labourers". The R.M.A. was a boarding school for orphaned children of the army, they stayed in school until they were 14 years old, when they were discharged to apprenticeships. Margaret Diamond was discharged from the Royal Military Asylum to Thomas Henry Hartley of Yeoman’s Close on the 23rd November 1842 as a "domestic servant" fulfilling the requirement that the children be taught a trade, though in fact simply taking her place in the family home. ^[1]

Immigration records tell us that Margaret Diamond was nineteen years old, a house servant who could read and write, Church of England, from Middlesex London with no relatives in the Colony, when she immigrated to Australia with her sister and brother-in-law Sarah and Richard Russell on the ship Walmer Castle in 1848.

Margaret Diamond married William Elliot on the 16th August 1854, in St.Lawrence Church of England Sydney. Was this William Elliot known to the family in London? When he left the R.M.A. in Chelsea in 1844, Margaret’s younger brother, Alexander Diamond was apprenticed to William Elliot a tailor in Yeoman’s Road Brompton. The Diamonds were then living at 9 Yeoman’s Row.

Margaret Elliott died in Sydney aged 88 on the 18th February 1917 and was buried in the Old Church of England section of Rookwood Cemetery, section 4 row 3, plots 703 & 704.

The Sydney Morning Herald 19th February 1917 page 6

DEATH

ELLIOT - February 18th 1917 at Violet Cottage, Elliot Street, Homebush, Margaret relict of the late William Elliott (shipwright) aged 88.

The Sydney Morning Herald 20th February 1917 page 5

ELLIOT - the funeral of the late Mrs. Margaret Elliott will leave her late residence, Violet Cottage, Elliott Street this afternoon at 1.45 o"clock for Church of England Cemetery, Rookwood, via Homebush Station.

Sources

1. ↑ RMA, Chelsea WO143/52 RMA list by date of apprenticeship - 1792 p:146 - 10 Diamond Margaret AA 14

• Royal Military Asylum Apprentice Ledgers 1803-1840 / Royal Military Asylum (Chelsea) Admissions 1803-1901 : Margaret Diamond - Birth year 1829 Admission date 27/9/1834 - Age 5y 11m - Home Address - Brompton. 8 Yeomans Close - Father's first name(s) John (Rank : Sergeant) & Mother's first name(s) Mary

Discharge date 23/11/1842 Trade Domestic Servant Apprenticed to HARTLEY Thomas Henry Apprenticeship end date 23/11/1846 / Notes WO143-25 Chelsea, London, England in British Army Schoolchildren And Schoolmasters 1803-1932 transcribed in Find My Past

• National Archives, R.M.A. Chelsea WO143/52 by date of apprenticeship. 1792 p:146 : 10 Diamond Margaret AA 14 - discharge 23/11/1842 to Thomas Henry Hartley, Brompton, Yeoman's Close 8; domestic servant.
• "Australia Marriages, 1810-1980," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTCK-85F : 12 December 2014), William Elliott and Margaret Diamond, 16 Aug 1854; citing St. Lawrence, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, reference ; FHL microfilm 993,965.
• N.S.W. deaths : 2489/1917 Elliott Margaret - parents : John & Margaret - death registered at Burwood
• "Australia, New South Wales, Deceased Estate Files, 1880-1923", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2T4-W38W : 3 February 2017), Maragret Elliott, 1917.