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| <According to family tradition, the Ellots came from Angus at the foot of Glenshie. They moved to Teviotdale in the Scottish borders at the time of Robert the Bruce. It is known that Ellot of Redheugh was living in the early 1400's Robert Ellot of Redheugh appears as the tenth chief in 1476. Robert, 13th chief, was killed, along with James IV and much of the Scottish nobility, at Flodden in 1513. The Union of the Crowns in 1603 marked the beginning of the end of the Border Reivers. There were many executions at this time and many Border inhabitants took the option to begin a new life in Ireland. Sir Gilbert Eliott of Stobs became cheif in 1673, having been created Baronet of Nova Scotia by Charles II. Another branch of the family acquired the lands of Minto in 1703. For a time the cheifs resided in America, but in 1932 the 10th baronet reclaimed the ancient holding of Redheugh, where he died in 1958. The baronetcy has, at least for the time being, passed from the chiefly house. On the death of the 11th Baronet his daughter became cheif and the baronetcy passed to a male kinsman. |