Elizabeth Jenner (OH's MFFMM)
 

Name - "official" name and what they were known as
Elizabeth Jenner

Date and place of birth
c1802 Horsted Keynes, Sussex

Names of parents
Robert & Elizabeth Jenner (nee Holford) Robert farmed at Tremaines Farm which is now well known for cheesmaking)

Date and place of baptism - if applicable
10 Dec 1802 St Giles, Horsted Keynes, Sussex

Details of each of his or her marriages - if any
09 Sep 1819 St Marylebone, London to James Harland. witnesses Thos Walder & Susan Packham

Occupation(s) - if any
1861 Nurse, plus she had 3 plasterers lodging as well as looking after her 3yr old grandson.
1871 laundress

Addresses where they
1841-1871 Lindfield, Sussex in the area variously known as Gravely cottages or American Colony, or the Colony, in scheme initiated by Quaker philanthropist William Allen (now part of Haywards Heath). Theirs was the most basic of the cottage types with a smallholding, after her husband hanged himself in 1848, she continued to live there with various of her children and then in 1871 grandson Richard Harland.

Date, place and cause of death
12 April 1879 Gravelye Cottages, Lindfield, Sussex of Pleuropneumonia 14 days

Date and place of burial.
17 April 1879 St Wilfrid’s, Haywards Heath age 83 pf Lindfield (America)

Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable
None

Memorial inscription - if any
No gravestone.

Found a newspaper report for 1859 which says she was visiting her husband's niece Elizabeth Compton at Nash House, Lindfield who "dropped a corpse" after a hearty meal. In 1848 her husband hanged himself leaving her to cope alone. She also brought up her youngest daughter's illegitimate son.

Link to husband James Harland
Link to daughter Mary Ann Harland