Birth: June 1862 Rugby, Warwickshire, UK
Father: Joseph Clarke c1824-1908
Mother: Mary Crowdy 1826-1887
Christening: 24 June 1862 Rugby, Warwickshire, UK
Marriage: 22 May 1879 Holy Trinity Church, St Andrew, Rugby, Warwickshire, UK
Husband: John Elson 1859-1901
Marriage: July-September 1912 Rugby, Warwickshire, UK
Husband: Henry Anderson c1853-1917
Death: April-June 1927 Rugby, Warwickshire, UK
By John
Elizabeth Elson [Wilkins] 1879-a1911
Edward John Elson 1881-1969
Henry Ernest Elson 1888-1954
Alfred William Elson 1890-1918
Ernest Percy Elson 1897
Louisa Mary Elson [Keates] 1898-1948
Florence Elson 1899-a1911
Birth of Elizabeth Clarke in FreeBMD in April-June 1862 in Rugby (6d 461).
Christening of Elizabeth Clarke in Ancestry Warwickshire, England, Baptisms, 1813-1910 on 24 June 1862 in Rugby, parents Josph and Mary Clarke. "Page 80 Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Rugby in the County of Warwick in the Year 1862 [...] 1862 June 24 No. 635 Elizabeth, parents Joseph, a labourer, and Mary Clarke of Rugby".
In the 1871 census as Elizabeth Clarke aged 8, born in Rugby, Warwickshire, and living with her parents (Joseph and Mary), brother Edward and two sisters (Mary and Sarah) in Gas Street, Rugby, Warwickshire.
Marriage of Elizabeth Clarke and John Elson in FreeBMD in April-June 1879 in Rugby (6d 611).
Entry in Ancestry All England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for Elizabeth Clarke aged 17, father Joseph Clarke, and and John Elson on 22 May 1879 at Holy Trinity, Rugby, Warwick.
Entry in Ancestry Warwickshire, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1910 for Elizabeth Clarke aged 17, father Joseph Clarke, and John Elson aged 19, father John Elson, on 22 May 1879 at Rugby St Andrew. "Page 28 1879 Marriage solemnized at Holy Trinity Church in the Parish of St Andrew Rugby in the County of Warwick. No. 56 May 22 1879 John Elson aged 19, a Bachelor and Labourer of 34 Queen Street, father John Elson, a Bricklayer, and Elizabeth Clarke aged 17, a Spinster of 19 Gas Street, father Joseph Clarke, a Labourer. Married in the Holy Trinity Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns [...] in the Presence of us Richard Clarke and Sarah Jeffs".
In the 1881 census as Elizabeth Elson aged 20, born in Rugby, Warwickshire, and living with her husband (John), and daughter (Elizabeth) at 38 Church Street, Rugby, Warwickshire.
In the 1891 census as Elizabeth Elson aged 29, born in Rugby, Warwickwickshire, and living with her husband (John), three sons (Alfred, Harry and John) and daughter (Elizabeth) at 56 Cambridge Street, Rugby, Warwickshire. Her father was living at number 54 and brother at number 55.
In the 1901 census as Elizabeth Elson aged 39, born in Rugby, Warwickshire, and living with her husband (John), four sons (Alfred, Ernest, Henry and John), and three daughters (Elizabeth, Florie and Louie) at 184 Lawford Road, Bilton, Warwickshire.
Her husband died in Rugby at the end of 1901.
In the 1911 census as Elizabeth Elson aged 50, born in Rugby, Warwickshire, widowed, married for 30 years with seven children, one of whom had died, and living with her son (Ernest) and daughter (Louisa) in six rooms at 39 Pinfold Street, Bilton, Warwickshire.
Marriage of Elizabeth Elson and Henry Anderson in FreeBMD in July-September 1912 in Rugby (6d 1184).
Her husband died in Rugby in 1917.
Death of Elizabeth Anderson in FreeBMD in April-June 1927 aged 65 in Rugby (6d 708).
There are six entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Elizabeth Clarke born in Rugby in 1862, and married to John Elson in Rugby in 1879, one gives her father as John Clarke, four others as Joseph Clarke, and three her mother as Mary Crowdy, and several her children although there are several errors.
Elizabeth Clarke was the mother of Elizabeth Elson, wife of John Frederic Wilkins, husband of Kate Luff, my half first cousin twice removed.
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