Birth: October 1846 Linchmere, Sussex, UK
Father: James Combs (Combes) 1800-1865
Mother: Sarah Shepherd 1806-1864
Christening: 25 October 1846 St Peter, Linchmere, Sussex, UK
Marriage: 24 September 1868 St John the Evangelist, Hale, Surrey, UK
Husband: Albert Baker 1841-1929
Death: January-March 1926 2 Upper Shoreham Road, Kingston-by-Sea, West Sussex, UK
Burial: 19 January 1926 St Peter, Henfield, West Sussex, UK
Alice Edith (Edith Alice) Baker 1869-1887
Hector Combes Baker 1871-1896
There is no entry in FreeBMD for the birth of Elizabeth Combes in 1846, but there is an entry for Sarah Elizabeth Combes in October-December 1846 in Midhurst (7 443) - I assume the name Sarah was dropped before the christening and then given to the second daughter.
Christening of Elizabeth Combes in the IGI on 25 October 1846 in Linchmere, Sussex, parents James and Sarah Combes. The same information is in Ancestry All England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975.
Entry in Ancestry West Sussex, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1920 for Elizabeth Combes baptised 25 October 1846 in Linchmere, parents James and Sarah Combes. "Page 78 Baptisms folemnized in the Parifh of Linchmere in the County of Sufsex in the Year 1846 7 [...] October 25 No. 621 Elizabeth Daughter of James [a] Farmer [and] Sarah Combes [of] Linchmere".
Her sister was baptised on 2 July 1848 at St Peter, Linchmere when they were living in Linchmere.
In the 1851 census as Elizabeth Combes aged 4, born in Linchmere, Sussex, and living with her parents (James and Sarah Combes), sister (Sarah), and four servants (James Stacey aged 22 and born in Bepton, George Young aged 10 (sic - in the index, 20 on the original) and born in Farnhurst, Abeneligo Luff aged 14 and born in Linchmere, and Harriett Frogley aged 19 and born in Linchmere, all single) at Bridge Farm, Linchmere, Sussex.
In the 1861 census as Elizabeth Combes aged 14, born in Linchmere, Sussex, and living with her father (James), a servant (Daniel Bramel aged 27, single and born in Bramshott, Hampshire and a carter) and a visitor (Mary Frogley aged 52, born in Linchmere, married, and a washer woman) at Bridge Farm, Linchmere, Sussex. Her mother was visiting friends or relatives at 302 Euston Road, Regents Park, St Pancras, Middlesex.
Her mother died on 31 December 1864 and was buried on 31 December 1864 at St Peter, Linchmere, and her father died on 15 January 1865 at Bridge Farm, Linchmere and was buried on 21 January 1865 at St Peter, Linchmere.
Marriage of Elizabeth Combes and Albert Baker in FreeBMD in 1868 in Farnham (2A 125).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for Elizabeth Combes, father James Combes, and Albert Baker on 24 September 1867 (sic) in Hale, Surrey.
Entry in Ancestry All Surrey, England, Marriages, 1754-1937 for Elizabeth Combes aged 22, father James Combes, and Albert Baker on 24 September 1868 at Hale, St John the Evangelist. "1868. Marriage solemnized at the District Church in the District Hale in the County of Surrey. [No.] 245 Sept 24 Albert Baker [aged] 27 [a] Bachelor [and] Farmer [of] Hale [father] William Baker [a] Farmer, [and] Elizabeth Combes [aged] 22 [a] Spinster [of] Runfold father James Combes deceased. Married in the District Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church [...] in the Presence of us George A Deaton and Sarah Combes".
Her daughter was registered in July-September 1869 in Farnham and baptised on 7 November 1869 at St Peter, Wrecclesham when they were living in Wrecclesham.
Her son was registered in April-June 1871 in Farnham.
In the 1871 census as Elizabeth Baker aged 24, born in Lynchemer (sic), Sussex, and living with her husband (Albert), son (Hester), daughter (Alice Edith), a nurse (Elizabeth Plasters aged 51, born in Barnstaple, Devon and widowed), a carter (Joseph Wooder aged 17 and born in Frensham, Surrey), and a servant (Mary Milam aged 15 and born in Binsted, Hampshire) in Wrecclesham Street, Wrecclesham, Farnham, Surrey.
Her son was baptised on 7 May 1871 at St Peter, Wrecclesham when they were living in Wrecclsham.
In the 1881 census as Elizabeth Baker aged 34, born in Linchmear (sic), Sussex, and visiting with her husband (Albert) James Curtis (aged 56, born in Bramshott, Hampshire and a grocer) and his wife (Jane aged 58 and born in Petersfield, Hampshire) at The Oaks, Headley, Hampshire. Her two children were living with Albert's widowed father in Farringdon, Hampshire.
In the 1891 census as Elizabeth Baker aged 41, born in Lynchmere, Sussex, and living with her husband (Albert) and son (Hector C) in Vine Cottage, Bentley, Hampshire.
In the 1901 census as Elizabeth Baker aged 51, born in Lynchoun (sic), Sussex, and living with her husband (Albert) at Buxted Lodge, Hadlow Down, Mayfield, East Sussex.
In the 1911 census as Elizabeth Baker aged 64, born in Linchmere, Sussex, married for 40 years, with two children both having died, a cook working on her own account, and living with her husband (Albert) and a boarder (Arthur Victor Dunnaway aged 20, born in Chichester, Sussex, single and a coachman) in four rooms at Alpha Cottages, Felpham Street, Felpham, Bognor, Sussex.
I cannot locate the family in the 1921 census.
Death of Elizabeth Baker in FreeBMD in January-March 1926 aged 79 in Steyning (2B 399).
Entry in Ancestry West Sussex, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1995 for the burial of Elizabeth Baker on 19 January 1926 in Henfield, Sussex. "Page 85 Burial in the Parish of Henfield in the Diocese of Chichester and County of Sussex in the Year 1926 1926 Elizabeth Baker No. 673 [of] 2 Upper Shoreham Road, Kingston by Sea [on] January 19th 1926 [aged] 79 years".
There are five entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Elizabeth Combes.
Elizabeth Combes was the wife of Albert Baker, my second cousin three times removed.
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