Eliza Easton (Week 5 - FFMM)
 

Name - "official" name and what they were known as
Eliza Easton

Date and place of birth
About 1820 at Chew Magna, Somerset

Names of parents
William Easton. Mother unknown.

Date and place of baptism - if applicable
Not looked for.

Details of each of his or her marriages - if any
17th Feb 1840 at Chew Magna to George Sage.

Occupation(s) - if any
Reco
rded as servant on marriage certificate

Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on.
Have all censuses.
1841 & 1851: Bishop Sutton, Chew Magna, Somerset
1861, 1871 and 1881: Stowey, Somerset

Date, place and cause of death
27th Nov 1888 at 8 Bellevue Terrace, Bedminster, Bristol, Gloucestershire, the home of her daughter, Joanna Burchill née Sage. Cause of death: apoplexy and exhaustion.

Date and place of burial / cremation.
2nd Dec 1888 at Stowey, Somerset

Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable
Not looked for

Memorial inscription - if any
Not looked for

lol I don't know why I typed 'not looked for' when I've been looking, vaguely, for years!

I should have said 'parish register not looked at' because I've never been to anywhere that has it!

Apologies........:o

There is a baptsim in 1830 in Chew Magna - but that is 10 years out, unless she was 10 years old (unlikely).

Chew Magna Church
RegisterNumber 229

BaptismDate 20 Jun 1830
Forename Eliza
Sex F
FatherForename Obed
MotherForename Mary
FatherSurname Easton

Abode Sutton
FatherOccupation Labourer
Notes
FileNumber 8965

Anyway, her father is meant to be William, so that's unlikely to be her.

FreeREG baptisms for St Andrew's Church, Chew Magna, are supposed to be complete from 1781 to 1903.

He really is William too! He is living with the Sage family on some censuses and she is named as dau on his death cert so I've no problem with him!

In 1841 there's William aged 50 followed by Ann aged 50 and some children. This Ann may well be Eliza Easton's mother, but even if she is William's wife, I don't know how long they had been married!

I suppose I should look for her death cert, but even if I had the luck to have Eliza registering her death as well as William's, I would be less comfortable with the description daughter (if it was given!) in case Ann was really a step-parent.

Where do you look to see that Kate?

They lived in the hamlet of Bishop Sutton in Chew Manga parish much of the time and there was a chapel of ease at Bishop Sutton. Maybe the baptism records got lost/were not written down in the right place?

http://www.freereg.org.uk/parishes/som/frontpage.shtml

Then click on "C".

To get there from the FreeREG front page, you would click on "Counties and Parishes".