George Elliott ( 1636 – 1668 in

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)PRO – Tangier Garrison records was the English surgeon to the Earl of Teviot's Regiment. Elliott was the illegitimate son of

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(1618–1689) and Richard Eliot ( 1614-1660s), the wayward second son of Sir John Eliot. George Elliott's grandson

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spent much effort in seeking to prove that Richard had married Catherine Killigrew, but he was never able to do so formally. Indeed, visitations survive showing that Richard died a bachelor and her mother's probate documents showing that Catherine was a spinster, aged 38, on 24 December 1656. Little is known of Elliott's early years until his marriage to Katherine Maxwell in 1654. By 4 May 1663, around the time of the baptism of his second daughter in London, he was recognized as 'Doctor' to the Earl of Teviot's Regiment. He reappeared at the Tangier Garrison in

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in May 1664 as the 'Chirurgeon to the Earl of Teviot's Regiment at Tangier', where he lived at the ''Mole'', a waterside fortification.

Family

On 18 January 1654 at

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, London, Elliott married Katherine Maxwell ( 1638 – December 1709), the daughter of the Rev. William Maxwell of

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(d. 1655). They had at least two daughters and one son: #Katherine Elliott (bapt 14 December 1660

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, London – unknown) #Margaret Elliott (bapt 3 May 1663

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, London – unknown), who married firstly (before 7 March 1714) Richard Andrews, and secondly (after 7 March 1714) Richard Giles #

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( 1665 – 15 May 1714 Barnes, Surrey), who married Charlotte Elliot at

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, London on 4 March 1712 In 1668, Elliott died at Tangier, where he was succeeded as Chirurgeon by his assistant, Robert Spotswood (17 September 1637 – 1680), who also married Elliott's widow.

References

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