Birth: 11 March 1867 27 Phoebe Street, Poplar, Tower Hamlets, Middlesex, UK
Father: John Thomas Clark 1844-a1891
Mother: Isabella Amelia Beckett 1846-a1891
Christening: 15 March 1870 All Saints, Poplar, Tower Hamlets, Middlesex, UK
Marriage: 27 March 1887 St Thomas, Stepney, Middlesex, UK
Husband: Nathaniel Biggs 1864-1951
Death: February-March 1895 95 Thomas Street, Limehouse, London, UK
Buried: 5 March 1925 City of London Tower Hamlets Cemetery, private unconsecrated grave 10898, Bromley, London, UK.
Charles Richard John Biggs 1887
Albert Edwin Biggs 1889-1903
Harry Nathaniel Biggs 1891-1951
Florence Elizabeth Biggs 1893
Violet Biggs [Barnes] 1894-1976
Mabel Biggs [Judd] 1896-1974
Ernest Enoch Biggs 1898
George Biggs 1901-1983
Grace Biggs 1902-a1911
Ivy Lilian Biggs 1904
Albert James Biggs 1907
Birth of Elizabeth Ann Clark in FreeBMD in January-March 1867 in Poplar (1c 735).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1916 for Elizabeth Clark baptised on 15 March 1870 at Poplar All Saints, Tower Hamlets, parents John Thomas and Isabella Clark. "Page 157 Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of All Saints, Poplar, in the County of Middlesex, in the Year 1870 [...] 11th March 1867 March 15th No. 1253 Elizabeth Daughter of John Thomas, a Boiler Maker, and Isabella Clark of 27 Phoebe Street".
In the 1871 census as Elizabeth Clark aged 4, born in Limehouse, Middlesex, and living with her parents (John and Isabella), and two sisters (Amelia and Sarah) at No. 27 Phoebe Street, Poplar, London.
In the 1881 census as Elizabeth Clark aged 14, born in Limehouse, Middlesex, and a servant living with Richard Peak (aged 34, born in Colchester, Essex and a labourer) and his wife (Mary A aged 30 and born in Limehouse, Middlesex) at 19 Havannah Street, Poplar, London.
Marriage of Elizabeth Clark and Nathaniel Biggs in FreeBMD in January-March 1887 in Mile End (1c 652).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1931 for the marriage of Elizabeth Clark aged 20, father John Thomas Clark, and Nathaniel Biggs on 27 March 1887 at St Thomas, Stepney, Tower Hamlets."Page 242 1887 Marriage solemnized at St Thomas Church in the Parish of Stepney in the County of Middlesex No. 483 Twenty Seventh March 1887 Nathaniel Biggs aged 23, a Bachelor and Carman of 45 Jubilee St., father Charles Snow Biggs, a Cooper, and Elizabeth Clark aged 20, a Spinster of 54 Emworth St., father John Thomas Clark, a Boilermaker. Married in the Church of St. Thomas according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns [...] in the Presence of Richard Chambers Clark [who made his mark] and Amelia Clerk".
Her first two sons were born in Millwall in 1887 when they were living at 29 Havant Street, and in 1889 when they were living at 4 Auguste Street.
In the 1891 census as Emma (sic - on the original) Briggs (sic - on the original aged 24, born in Poplar, Middlesex, and living with her husband (Nathiel), and three sons (Albert, Charles and Harry) at 2 Union Place, Stratford, West Ham, Essex.
Her first two children were born in Polar in 1893 and 1995, her son in Stratford, Essex in 1891, and the next two in Limehouse in 1897 and 1898. living at 95 Thomas Street.
In the 1901 census as Elizabeth Biggs aged 36, born in Limehouse, London, and living with her husband (Nathaniel), four sons (Charles, Edwin, Ernest and Harry) and three daughters (Florence, Mabel and Violet) in three rooms at 95 Thomas Street, Limehouse, London.
In the 1911 census as Elizabeth Biggs aged 44, born in Limehouse, married for 25 years with eleven children, one having died, and living with her husband (Nathaniel), four sons (Albert, Earnest, George and Harry), and five daughters (Florence, Grace, Ivy, Mabel and Violet) in four rooms at 95 Thomas Street, Limehouse, E.
There are six entries in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Elizabeth Biggs address 95 Thomas Street, Stepney, Tower Hamlets from 1918 to 1924, other occupants Nathaniel Biggs (husband?), Ernest Enoch Biggs (son?) in 1920 and 1921, and George Biggs (son?) from 1922.
Death of Elizabeth Biggs in FreeBMD in January-March 1925 aged 58 in Limehouse (1c 333).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery Registers, 1841-1966 for Elizabeth Biggs buried on 5 March 1925 aged 58 in London. "Page 366 Burials in the Year 1925 in the City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery Eastablished under Stat. 4th Victoria, c. 63. [...] 10898 Elizabeth Biggs No. 2 of 95 Thomas Street, Limehouse on 5 March aged 58" and Register of Private Graves 1920 - 1966 "10898 Grave 10 feet deep unConsecrated Sq 5 6 ft 6 x 2 ft 6 3 March 1925 S: 10942/10896 Miss Violet Biggs 95 Thomas St., Limehouse Elizabeth Biggs 58 5/3/25 44979 Nathaniel Biggs 86 14/2/51 Now 7".
There are four entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Elizabeth Clark, born on 11 March 1867 in Tower Hamlets, Middlesex, parents John Thomas Clark and Isabella Amelia Beckett.
Note Poplar was transfered from Middlesex to London in 1889, and the Bromley is now called Bromley by Bow.
Elizabeth Clark was the mother of George Biggs, husband of Emily Guth, aunt of Joan Mary G Mehrtens, wife of Raymond Ian Croucher Frampton, my first cousin.
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