Birth: 25 December 1863 St George, Hanover Square, Middlesex, UK
Father: William Seager 1842-1916
Mother: Sarah Southwell 1842-1926
Christening: 17 April 1864 Old Church, St Pancras, Middlesex, UK.
Marriage: Unknown
Husband: Joseph Letz c1866-1892
Marriage: 7 May 1895 At Andrew, Fulham, London, UK
Husband: Charlie (Charles) Hay (Henry) Shackleton (1875-a1947)
Death: 1919-1947 South Africa?
By Joseph
Joseph August Letz 1890-1890
Frederick William Letz 1892-1892
By Charlie
Harold Shackleton 1896-c1976
Birth of Elizabeth Seager in FreeBMD in January-March 1864 in St Geo Han Sq (1a 223).
Birth of Elizabeth Seager in the IGI on 25 December 1863 and her christening on 17 April 1864 at the Old Church, St Pancras, London, parents William and Sarah Seager .
Her sister was born in Brighton in 1866.
In the 1871 census as Elizabeth Seager aged 7, born in Westminster, London, and living with her parents (William and Sarah), two brothers (Frederick Wm and James), sister (Alice), her widowed grandmother (Emma Southwell), aunt (Mary Southwell), two visitors (Alice Millerick aged 25, born in Brighton, Sussex - Elizabeth's aunt, and her daughter Kate Mary aged 3 months and born in Brighton, Sussex), and two lodgers (Patrick Quill aged 25, a farm labourer, and his wife Charlotte aged 27, both born in Wentkary Farish Jule, Ireland) at 11 Jersey Street, Brighton St Peter, Sussex.
In the 1881 census as Elizabeth Seager aged 17, born in Brighton, Sussex, single, and a general domestic servant living with Mary A Quiller (aged 54, born in Kent, widowed and an annuitant), her son (Charles T aged 18, born in St Georges, Middlesex, single and an Apprentice Pharmaceutical Society) and her sister (Isabella J Turner aged 47, born in Kent, single and an annuitant) at 23 Oakley Street, St Luke, London.
I cannot find any entry for her marriage to Joseph Letz, but she had two sons Joseph August Letz born and died at 12 Carburton Street, Marylebone in 1890, her husband died at St Pancras in early 1892, and her second son Frederick William was born and died in Wandsworth in July-September 1892. I cannot find the family in the 1891 census.
Marriage of Elizabeth Letz and Charles Shackleton in FreeBMD in April-June 1895 in Fulham (1a 426).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 for Elizabeth Letz aged 27, father William Seager, and Charles Shackleton aged 22, father Henry Shackleton, on 7 May 1895 in West Kensington St Andrew. "1895 Marriage solemnized at St Andrew's Church in the Parish of Fulham in the County of London No 490 May 7th 1895 Charles Shackleton aged 22, a bachelor employed as a porter, address 41 Humbolt Road, father Henry Shackleton, a labourer, and Elizabeth Letz aged 27, a widow of 41 Humbolt Road, father William Seager, a labourer, Married in the Church of St Andrew according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church by Banns in the Presence of us, H Shackleton and Mrs Shackleton.
Her son was born in Fulham in 1896.
In the 1901 census as Elizabeth Shackleton aged 32 (some five years too young), born in Brighton, Sussex, and living with her husband (Charles), and son (Harold) at 9 Atalana Road (just south of Fulham Cemetery), Fulham, London. The address was shared with another family.
Entry in Ancestry UK, Outward Passenger Lists, 1890-1960 for Lizzie Shackleton aged 31, on Manda of the Aberdeen Line travelling second class with Charles (husband?) and Harold Shackleton (son?) departing from London on 17 February 1905 to Port Natal. I believe this was the Inanda, a steel steamer built by Hall Russell in Aberdeen, launched in August 1904, registered on 20 September 1904, and owned by John T Rennie. She was 4090 tons gross. She was broken up for scrap at Briton Ferry in 1932 having been renamed Orlando in 1920 and sailed on the Hull North Sea route until 1928.
The following information is from an email from Elizabeth Sommers: I am not sure when Charlie, Elizabeth and Harold emigrated to South Africa but Harold married Ruby Jane Godden there and then had my father, Eric Hay Shackleton and a daughter, Gwen Shackleton. From my dad’s baptism certificate dated June 1st, 1919, I can place Charlie and Elizabeth in Durban as they were both witnesses. I also have an old photo of Charlie holding me as a baby and I was born in 1947 but nothing after that. I believe that Elizabeth had already died before my parents were married as my mother did not know her.
Elizabeth Seager was the wife of Charlie Shackleton, my half second cousin once removed.
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