Birth: 1835 Tacolneston, Norfolk, UK
Father: William Coleman 1807-1865
Mother: Mary Buck 1811-1866
Christening: 19 April 1835 All Saints, Tacolneston, Norfolk, UK
Marriage: October-December 1871 Depwade, Norfolk, UK
Husband: Henry Rockett Aldridge (Aldrich, Rocket, Rockett) 1847-1924
Death: 1891-1901
Father unknown
John Coleman c1860-1925
Belhthier Coleman c1863-a1871
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Eliza Coleman baptised 19 April 1835 in Tacolneston, Norfolk, parents William Coleman and Mary Buck.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Bishop's Transcripts, 1579-1935 for Eliza Coleman baptised 19 April 1835 in Tacolneston, parents William Coleman and Mary Buck.
Three entries in FreeReg for Eliza Coleman baptised on 19 April 1835 at All Saints, Tacolneston, Norfolk, parents William Coleman, a shoe-maker and Mary Buck of Tacolneston in two.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Bishop's Transcripts, 1579-1935 and in Norfolk, England, Transcripts of Church of England Baptism, Marriage and Burial Registers, 1600-1935 for Eliza Coleman baptised 19 April 1835 in Tacolneston, parents William Coleman and Mary Buck. "Page 43 Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Tacolneston, in the County of Norfolk in the Year 1835 [...] April 19th No. 343 Eliza Daughtr of William [a] Shoe-maker & Mary Coleman late Buck [of] Tacolneston,".
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1922 for Eliza Coleman baptised 19 April 1835 in Tacolneston, parents William Coleman and Mary Buck. "Page 43 Baptisms folemnized in the Parifh of Tacolneston, in the County of Norfolk in the Year 1835 [...] April 19th No. 343 Eliza Daughtr of William [a] Shoe-maker & Mary Coleman [of] Tacolneston".
Her sister was baptised on 1 May 1836, her two brothers on 20 May 1838 and 14 February 1841, all at All Saints, Tacolneston, Norfolk.
In the 1841 census as Elisa Coloma (sic) aged 6, born in Norfolk, and living with Eliza (grandmother?), William and Mary (parents?), Denis and John (brothers?), Charlotte and Elizebeth (sisters?) (all surnames Coloma in the index, original illegible) and William Buck (aged 11) on the Turnpike, Tacolneston, Norfolk
Her brother was baptised on 10 March 1844 at All Saints, Tacolneston, Norfolk.
In the 1851 census as Eliza Coleman aged 16, born in Tacolnestone, Norfolk, single, and a servant living with Robert Knights (aged 63, born in Deopham, Norfolk, a farmer of 230 employng 7 labourers), his wife (Mary aged 53 and born in Brand, Norfolk), two sons (Dennis aged 13, born in Tacolnestone, Norfolk, and Elden aged 27, born in Deopham, Norfolk, both single and farmer's sons), and three daughters (Elizabeth aged 16, born in Tacolnestone, Norfolk, Mary Ann aged 26, born in Deopham, Norfolk, and Sarah Ann aged 23, born in Tacolnestone, Norfolk, all single and farmers daughters) in Tacolnestone, Norfolk.
Her son was born circa 1860, but I cannot locate any information except the census entry which states Tacolneston.
In the 1861 census as Eliza Coleman aged 26, single and living with her parents (William and Mary), two brothers (Fredric and George), sister (Mary), and daughter (sic - in the index, son on the original) (John) in Tacolneston, Norfolk.
Her daughter was born circa 1963 but I cannot locate any information, except the census entry which states Tacolneston
In the 1871 census as Eliza Coleman aged 36, born in Tacolneston, Norfolk, single and living with her son (John) and daughter (Belhthier), and Henry Rocket (future husband?) in Tacolneston, Norfolk.
Marriage of Eliza Coleman and Henry Rockett Aldrich in FreeBMD in October-December 1871 in Depwade (4B 582).
Several members of the families moved to the Durham coal mining district.
In the 1881 census as Eliza Rockett aged 43, born in Taccolston (sic - on the original), Norfolk, and living with her husband (Henry), son (John Coleman) and daughter (Bessey Coleman) in Colliery Houses, Whickham, Durham.
In the 1891 census as Eliza Rockett aged 52, born in Fackelstone (sic - on the original), Norfolk, and living with her husband (Henry), son (John Rockett) and granddaughter (Mary Elizabeth Rockett) in two rooms at Colliery Row, Marley Hill, Whickham, Durham.
I cannot locate her death but her husband was a widower in tthe 1901 census.
There are thirty five entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Eliza Coleman.
Tacolneston is 12 miles SW of Norwich on B1113.
Eliza Coleman was the wife of Henry Rockett Aldridge (Aldrich, Rockett), father of Henry Rockett, husband of Doris Grieveson, second cousin once removed of Peter Purves, husband of Isabella Richardson Steele, wife of Robert James Gordon, father of Irene Alice Gordon, wife of George William Barton, brother of Dennis Alfred Barton, my brother-in-law.
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