Louisa Elizabeth Adams [Melton] (1843-1873)

Dates

Birth: July-September 1843 Topcroft, Norfolk, UK
Father: Samuel Adams c1807-a1861
Mother: Elizabeth Froast 1811-1865

Christening: 6 April 1844 Topcroft, Norfolk, UK

Marriage: October-December 1872 Norwich, Norfolk, UK
Husband: Morris (Maurice) Mile (Miles, Mill, Myhill) Barnabus (Barnaby) Melton (1851-1919)

Death: April-June 1873 Norwich, Norfolk, UK

Children

Unknown

Notes

Birth of Louisa Adams in FreeBMD in July-September 1843 in Loddon (13 186) which included Topcroft.

Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for the baptism of Louisa Adams on 6 April 1844 at Topcroft, Norfolk, parents Samuel and Elizabeth Adams.

Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Bishop's Transcripts, 1579-1935 for the baptism of Louisa Adams on 6 April 1844 at Topcroft, Norfolk, parents Samuel and Elizabeth Adams. "Page [blank] Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Topcroft in the County of Norfolk in the Year 1844 [...] April 6.No. 385 Louisa, daughter of Samuel, a Labourer, and Elizabeth Adams of Topcroft".

Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1915 for the baptism of Louisa Adams on 6 April 1844 at Topcroft, Norfolk, parents Samuel and Elizabeth Adams. "Page 49 Baptisms solemnized in the Parifh of Topcroft in the County of Norfolk in the Year 1844 [...] 1844 April 6th Easter Sunday No. 385 Louisa, daughter of Samuel, a Labourer, and Elizabeth Adams of Topcroft".

In the 1851 census as Louisa Adams aged 7, born in Topcroft, ansd living with her parents (Samuel and Elizabeth), brother (George) and sister (Albina) in Topcroft, Norfolk.

In the 1861 census as Louisa Adams aged 17, born in Toperoft (sic) Norfolk, employed as a house servant and living with Susan Alborough (aged 56, born in Mundham, Norfolk, a farmers wife but not living with her husband), and another house servant (Martha Stone aged 15 and born in Easton, Norfolk) in St Giles Upper Street, Norwich St Giles, Norfolk.

In the 1871 census as Louisa Dams (sic - in the index, Adams on the original) aged 26, born in Topcroft, single, employed as a domestic servant and a visitor with her brother-in-law and sister (James and Albina Rowlett (sic - in the index, Borrett on the original), neice (Rosa L), and (step)neice (Elizabeth E), in The Street, Topcroft, Norfolk.

Marriage of Louisa Elizabeth Adams and Morris Mial B Melton in FreeBMD in October-December 1872 in Norwich (4b 410).

Death of Louisa Melton in FreeBMD in April-June 1873 aged 27 in Norwich (4b 98).

Two entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Louisa Elizabeth Adams born in Topcroft, Norfolk in July 1843, her marriage to Morris Myhill Barbabus/Barnabus Melton in Norwich in October 1872 and her death in Norwich in April 1873 in one and in September 1873 in the other.

Topcroft is some 12 miles south of Norwich.

Relationship

Louisa Adams was my first cousin three times removed.

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