Eliza Crutcher (Light) [White] (c1859-a1901)


Dates

Birth: About 1859 Brockenhurst, Hampshire, UK
Father: Isaac Light 1838-1887
Mother: Annabella Crutcher 1839-a1881

Christening: Unknown

Marriage: April-June 1888 Lymington, Hampshire, UK
Husband: Walter White 1857-a1901

Death: After 1901

Children

Isaac White c1879-a1901
Walter White c1881-a1901
Betsy White c1885-a1901
James White c1887-a1901

Notes

I cannot find an entry for her birth or christening, and her father is assumed to be Isaac Light who was living with her mother.

In the 1861 census as Eliza Light aged 1, born in Brockenhurst, Hampshire, and living with her parents (Esther (male - was this Isaac, the original is nearly illegible) and Anabella Light) and sister (Eliza) at Steplake Lane, Michelmersh, Sherfield English, Hampshire.

In the 1871 census as Eliza Light aged 11, born in Brockenhurst, Hampshire, and living with her parents (Isaac and Anabella), two brothers (Henry and Mark), and three sisters (Elizabeth, Louisa and Matilda) living as gipsies at the side of the turnpike road in caravans in Winterbourne Whitchurch, Dorset.

I cannot find an entry in the 1881 census.

Marriage of Eliza Crutcher and Walter White in FreeBMD in April-June 1888 in Lymington (2b 1098).

In the 1891 census as Eliza White aged 32, born in Brockenhurst, Hampshire, and living with her husband (Walton - sic on the original), three sons (Isaac, Jas and Walter) and daughter (Betsey) at Ashley Road, Poors Common, Springbourne, Christchurch, Hampshire. Her brother Henry and family and sister Louisa (who married Walter's brother George) and family were living next door.

In the 1901 census as Eliza White aged 42, born in Brockenhurst, Hampshire, a gipsy traveller and living with her husband (Willer - sic in the index, original illegible), three sons (Isaac, Jane Jane (sic - James) and Walter White Jane (sic - in the index, junior on the original), daughter (Betsy Jane), and mother? (sic - on the original) Selby Agree (in the index, Ayres on the original - Eliza's brother Mark was married to Elizabeth Mary Ayres, aged 70, born in Peterfield, Hampshire, a widow and a gipsy traveller) at Heavenly Bottom, Branksome, Dorset.

John Couper has an entry in RootsWeb WorldConnect for Eliza Croucher born in 1860 in Brockenhurst, Hampshire, parents Isaac Light and Annabella Croucher, and her mariage to Walter White.

There are two entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Eliza Crutcher, born 1860 at Brockenhurst, Hampshire, parents Isaac Light and A Crutcher on one, and Isaac Light and Anabella Crutcher on the other adding the 1871 census entry.

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