When Eliza Elliott was born on 31 December 1897, in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia, her father, Albert Elliot, was 37 and her mother, Fanny Iles, was 37. She married William Herbert Norton on 13 August 1923, in Battery Point, Tasmania, Australia. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 16 May 1961, in Campania, Tasmania, Australia, at the age of 63, and was buried in Campania, Tasmania, Australia.
English: from the Middle English, Old French personal name Eliot, a pet form of the Old Testament name Elijah, rendered in Greek as Ēlias and in Old French as Élie + the diminutive suffix -ot; compare Ellis . The name Aylett may in some cases also have been confused with or absorbed into Elliott.
Scottish: late variant of Elwood .
Scottish (of Breton origin): perhaps, as some members of the Elliott clan believe, a Scottish variant of the Breton surname Elleouet, a habitational name from one of the hamlets named Allegot in Finistère.
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