The Elliot Family 

of Earewear, Narberth, 

Annikel & St. Botolphs

 

 

One of the earliest Elliots was Jenkyn who was descended from David Eliot of Earewear the founder of the family who was bailiff to the widowed Countess of Pembroke in 1347. The Eliot family then held Earewear for the next 450 years.  The Elliot family of Annikell were descended from John Elliot of Earewear and Narberth and his wife, Jane Vaughan.

 

AMROTH CASTLE/EAREWEAR, Amroth.

 

Seat of the Elliots, from about 1445 it continued in that family for nearly three and a half centuries.  They also had residences at Plas (Narberth), Westerton and Kiffig, the estate lying in the parishes of Amroth, St. Issels, Crunwere, Robeston, Ludchurch and Narberth.  The last of the family, Alexander Elliot, died at Earewear of the gout in 1756.  By his wife Elizabeth (widow of Joseph Walter of Rosemarket and Roch, and dughter of John Barlow of Lwrenny) he had no issue.  Elizabeth died before 1780 and Earewear became the property of her sister, Mrs. Catherine Owen who was still living at the mansion in 1791.  Before 1798 it had been sold to Captain Jame Acland who, in about 1800 built the castellated house, near the beach, known today as Amroth Castle.

 

Annikell, Steynton.

 

A short distance NE from Tiers Cross, and near the road leading to Merlins Bridge and Haverfordwest, now a farmhouse.  There are references to the place as early as 1326, but little is known about it, and by the 17th century it formed part of the Picton Castle estate.  Lawrence Hore, husbandman, was living at Annikell in 1628.  It was later tenanted by the Stokes family.  There was a spring on the land, but in 1664 Nicholas Stokes , husbandman, failed to clear and scour the ditch so the water did not have a free passage to Necell, which led to his appearance in the Court of Great Sessions.  By 1670 the Elliots came there and later had a lease from Picton Castle, but this was surrendered to Sir Richard Philipps in the 1760's, and the family moved to St. Botolphs.  Annikell was later held by farming tenants.  (Source: "Historic Houses of Pembrokeshire and Their Families" by Major Francis Jones.)

 

The Revd. Philip Elliot of Annikell obtained the estate of St. Botolphs, near Hubberston through his marriage to his cousin, Mary, daughter of John Howell of Hubberston Park.

 

Between 1739-1766 the Revd. Elliot was Rector of Trefgarne and Rudbaxton.  His daughter, Anne Elliot married Thomas Rowe, Esq., of Penally Court and were the ancestors of the Davies family of Great Hoaten Farm in  St. Ishmael' and the Feild family of The Fold in Herbrandston.  The Revd. Elliot's son, Dr. George Elliot was a surgeon of Laugharne in Carmarthenshire.  George's two sons each married the two daughters of Dr. John Coakley Lettsom, who was one of the founders of the Royal Humane Society and an eminent Quaker.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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