Elizabeth Unknown
 

Name - "official" name and what they were known as Elizabeth Unknown
Date and place of birth Don't know
Names of parents Don't know
Date and place of baptism - if applicable Not found
Details of each of his or her marriages - if any
1st marriage - to a Mr Wellden
2nd marriage - 12 Jun 1780 New Romney, Kent, to John Vidgen
Occupation(s) - if any Housewife
Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on (if s/he lived in census times!). 1780 - 1840 New Romney, Kent
Date, place and cause of death 22 Mar 1840 New Romney, Kent, of old age. Age given on death cert as 86.
Date and place of burial. 28 Mar 1840 New Romney, Kent
Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable None
Memorial inscription - if any Not found

Link to son's thread:
James Vidgen

It's a while since I looked at this, but I have in my notes that she could be Elizabeth Mapleden who married John Wellden 14 May 1774, as there is a burial of a John Wellden in 1776, but that there is the baptism of a daughter of John and Elizabeth Wellden in 1778 and another John Wellden burial in 1793, so maybe not.

I see there is the marriage of a John Wellden (a bachelor) to an Anne Potter 4 Jun 1777 at New Romney, so just wondering whether the 1778 baptism might have the wrong mother's name. If only the New Romney PR's were available online!

Hmm, now that the New Romney PR's are online, I see that the John Vidgen / Elizabeth Wellden marriage has her down as "Elizabeth Wellden Widow of this Parish Spinster"! One of the witnesses was a Susanna Wellden. Elizabeth's signature says Elizabeth Wellden, so Widow wasn't her surname.

https://search.findmypast.co.uk/reco...%2F0138021%2F1

And just for the record, the mother's name on that 1778 baptism (post #3) is shown as Elizabeth, as the transcription said.

A Susanna Wellden was baptised 11 May 1755, the daughter of John and Mary. But she doesn't seem to have had a sister Elizabeth. She did have a brother John baptised 1752, who could be the one who married Elizabeth Mapleden. Susan Wellden was a witness at that wedding.