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Eliza Ellens (d.1927)
04/12/1844 –30/12/1927
Eliza Ellens (d.1927)
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Eliza Ellens; 1844-1927
Eliza Ellens was born on 4th December 1844 to Caroline Flint and Thomas Ellins/Ellen(s), a boat builder born in Welford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. He and Caroline had married in 1825 in Birmingham. She was one of five children born to the couple. Her father, Thomas, doesn’t appear to have lived at home and was working in Birmingham. He died in 1850 when he was only 50 leaving Caroline with four children to raise. She became a laundress and in the 1851 census the family were living in the High Street, along with Eliza’s maternal aunt, Charlotte Flint, also a laundress. They were still there in 1861, by which time Eliza was working as a straw plaiter.
In 1901 Eliza, who was deaf, was 56 and working as a housemaid at the Rectory, the home of the Rev. Arthur Johnson and his family. Ellen never married and in 1911 she is described as a charwoman living in High Street on her own. She was still at the same address in 1921, with no occupation given.She died 30 December 1927 after what must have been a very hard life of poverty and hard manual labour and is buried with her aunt Charlotte Flint in Rectory Lane.
Thomas Ellens, the son of her brother William, is buried with his wife Sarah in Plot 371. (Thomas grew up with his grandmother Caroline and became a shoemaker, parish clerk and a founder of the town band.)
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Eliza Ellens; 1844-1927
Eliza Ellens was born on 4th December 1844 to Caroline Flint and Thomas Ellins/Ellen(s), a boat builder born in Welford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. He and Caroline had married in 1825 in Birmingham. She was one of five children born to the couple. Her father, Thomas, doesn’t appear to have lived at home and was working in Birmingham. He died in 1850 when he was only 50 leaving Caroline with four children to raise. She became a laundress and in the 1851 census the family were living in the High Street, along with Eliza’s maternal aunt, Charlotte Flint, also a laundress. They were still there in 1861, by which time Eliza was working as a straw plaiter.
In 1901 Eliza, who was deaf, was 56 and working as a housemaid at the Rectory, the home of the Rev. Arthur Johnson and his family. Ellen never married and in 1911 she is described as a charwoman living in High Street on her own. She was still at the same address in 1921, with no occupation given.She died 30 December 1927 after what must have been a very hard life of poverty and hard manual labour and is buried with her aunt Charlotte Flint in Rectory Lane.
Thomas Ellens, the son of her brother William, is buried with his wife Sarah in Plot 371. (Thomas grew up with his grandmother Caroline and became a shoemaker, parish clerk and a founder of the town band.)
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