Author: Marshall, Julia Anne
Biography:
MARSHALL, Julia Anne, later ELLIOTT (ancestry.co.uk)
She was born on 27 June 1809 at New Grange, Headingly, and baptised on 11 Dec. at Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds (Unitarian), the fifth daughter of John Marshall (1765-1845), flax-mill industrialist, MP, and philanthropist, and his wife Jane Pollard (1765-1849), daughter of a Leeds wool-stapler industrialist. She grew up at Hallsteads, Watermillock, on the banks of Ullswater. Her father had built the house in 1815 and retired there in 1830. She married the Rev. Henry Venn Elliott (1792-1865) on 31 Oct. 1833 at Watermillock. He had been educated at Trinity, Cambridge, where he was elected Fellow in 1816. Thereafter he entered the church, became increasingly evangelical, and on his father’s death took over the family chapel of St. Mary’s, Kemp Town, Brighton. They had five children. Her Poems (1832) included several poems on the scenery of Hallsteads, Headingley and Scotland. A 69-page supplement with the half-title Poems on Sacred Subjects, included in some copies, adds her religious poetry and several hymns for which she was best known. Further hymns appeared in Henry Venn Elliott (q.v.), Psalms and Hymns (1835), with her initials added in the 1839 edition. She died of scarlet fever (probably as a result of giving birth to her third son, Julius, on 24 Oct.) at their home, 31 Brunswick Square, Hove, on 3 Nov. 1841. (ancestry.co.uk 28 Oct. 2020; findmypast.co.uk 28 Oct. 2020; "Marshall, John" and "Elliott, Henry Venn," ODNB 28 Oct. 2020; Carlisle Journal 2 Nov. 1833, 13 Nov. 1841) AA