This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Elliott / Currie Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JhU.2ACEB/3358 Message Board Post: Searching for origins and descendants of DAVID ELLIOTT and his wife MARY CURRIE, who married 1858 Tasmania, Australia and moved to Invercargill, New Zealand in 1859. David was born in England c1820 and died 1884 Invercargill; his parents were JAMES ELLIOTT and HANNAH BAXALL; he may have been a convict, sentenced in Coventry in 1847 and arriving in Tasmania 1848 per "Ratcliffe 2". According to his death record he and Mary had seven children but at present only two are known - Jessie Hamilton Elliott b.1859 and James Currie Elliott b.1861.