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Robert Elliot

1807–88

Scottish sheep-farmer. Farmed in Roxburgh, Selkirk, Dumfries, and Perthshire for more than forty years. At Laighwood, Dunkeld, Perthshire, 1861, 1871.

Sources

Census returns of Scotland 1861 (The National Archives of Scotland: Clunie 2/5), 1871 (Clunie 2/5)

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858-1966 (Ancestry.com, accessed 12 February 2015)

Correspondence vol. 17, letter from Robert Elliot to George Cupples, 4 June 1869

Scotland old parish registers births 810/00 0030 0032 Wilton (Scotlandspeople.gov.uk, accessed 12 February 2015)

Scotland statutory deaths 786/00 0001 (Scotlandspeople.gov.uk, accessed 12 February 2015)

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

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