• DBHB's great x2 grandmother. Descendant of William the Conqueror, through her Boileau (Huguenot) heritage
• Born 7 May 1839, daughter of Rev. Charles Boileau Elliott (1803-1875) and Emily Dougan (1806-1877).
• Full name 'Emily Eugenia Elliott'. Known to some relatives as 'Millie'.
• Contemporary of John Butler Yeats (1839-1922) and Thomas Hardy (1840-1928).
• Married (on 12 October 1863, in Ludhiana, India), Rev. John Barton of Cambridge (1836-1908).
• Mother of Rev. Cecil Barton (1870-1909).
• Died 11 February 1924, aged 84.

Emily described her own life in some detail in a really rather interesting memoir.




LEFT: Emily with her brother Arthur in ~1854, aged 15 and 13 respectively. Portrait by R. A. Heapy inherited by Lt. Col. Ted Barton (1897-1971) from Kathleen Barton (b.1874).
RIGHT: Emily as a young woman.




Emily with her husband John in July 1864, the year after they married. She is ~6 months pregnant with Arthur.



Emily (seated in the middle) with her family. The original is captioned "Trinity Vicarage, Cambridge 1884".
Back row: Ethel, Jack, Cecil, Jessie, Fred. Front row: Arthur, Bill, Emily, Guy, John.



Emily in 1919, aged 80.

Children

With Rev. John Barton of Cambridge (1836-1908):

1. Arthur Elliott Barton (1864-1931).
2. Rev. Jack Barton (1866-1941).
3. Fred Barton (1868-1929).
4. Rev. Cecil Barton (1870-1909).
5. Ethel Barton (1871-1937).
6. Jessie Barton (1874-1955).
7. Guy Barton (1875-1947).
8. Bill Barton (1877-1952).
9. David Fenn Barton (b.&d.1879).