ELLIOTT Family - Illawarra publicans
Brothers Alexander and Edward Elliott operated several hotels in Wollongong and surrounds during the 1830s and 1840s. Their father, Edward, was convicted of spreading rebellion in 1822. He arrived in Sydney on 22 April 1823. His wife, son Edward 13 years and daughter, Johanna aged 18 arrived in 1828. His eledest son, Alexander, arrived in 1829. In Ireland, Edward senior earned his living as a dancing master and was a member of an established middleclass family. The re-united family settled at Fairy Meadow where Edward died in 1838 and Mary in 1858. Both were buried in the Roman Catholic Cemetery in Crown St Wollongong.
Alexander and Edward jnr individually operated the Wollongong Hotel on the north-west corner of Market Square and established Elliott's Family Hotel on the south-west corner of Crown and Corrimal Streets. The hotel later became the Oxford Hotel.
| Edward Elliott 1770-1838 | Irish gentleman, Dancing Master, Australian Convict, |
| Reminiscences of Illawarra 1894 | Early Wollongong Hotels |