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Elliott, Sizar (1814 - 1901) |
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| Inventor and Merchant | ||
| Born: 13 May 1814 Burnham, Essex, England. Died: 1 March 1901 Prahran, Victoria, Australia. | ||
| Sizar Elliot, merchant and innovator, was born on 13 May 1814 at Burnham, Essex, England, son of John Elliott, flour-miller, and his wife Annie, née Bell. After his father died, he was taken at 4 by his mother to New Brunswick, Canada. There he was educated at the national school and served a seven-year apprenticeship to a merchant-auctioneer. In 1835 he left New Brunswick to join an uncle in Launceston, Van Diemen's Land. Next year he married Sarah Neestrip and soon afterwards moved to Sydney, where in 1839 he set up as a grocer. He remained in Sydney until gold was discovered, when he first tried his luck at the Bathurst diggings, then shipped goods to Victoria and finally established a general retail merchant business in Melbourne. Apart from a short stay at Dunedin, New Zealand, in the early 1860s, he lived in Melbourne…... This information is taken from the Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol.4 1851-1890 p.137 |
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