Birth: 6 June 1850 Chesthunt, Hertfordshire, UK
Father: William Dye 1810-1883
Mother: Eliza Wallace (Walliee, Wallis) 1811-1891
Christening: 14 July 1850 St Mary the Virgin, Chesthunt, Hertfordshire, UK
Marriage: 14 September 1889 St Mary the Virgin, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, UK
Husband: John Wiggs (Higgs) 1859-1916
Death: 28 November 1929 Edmonton, Hertfordshire, UK
Burial: 5 December 1929 Hertfordshire, UK
None known
Birth of Eliza Dye in FreeBMD in April-June 1850 in Edmonton (3 132). Her twin brother was registered on the same page.
Entry in Ancestry All England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Eliza Dye baptised 14 July 1850 in Chesthunt, Herts, parents William And Eliza Dye.
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, Christening Index, 1530-1980 for Eliza Dye born 6 June 1850 and christened 14 July 1850 in Chesthunt, Herts, parents William And Eliza Dye.
Entry in FreeReg for the birth of Eliza Dye on 6 June 1850 and her baptism on 14 July 1850 at St Mary the Virgin, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, parents William, a labourer of Flamstead End, Cheshunt, and Eliza Dye, a note adding she was a twin. Her brother was baptised in the previous entry.
In the 1851 census as Eliza Dye aged 10 months, born in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, and living with her parents (William and Eliza), four brothers (Alfred, James, John and Joseph), sister (Mary) and two lodgers (Daniel Wallis (brother-in-law?) aged 15 and born in Cheshunt and John Aurbury aged 15 and born in Middlesex) in Flamstead End, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire.
Her sister was born on 10 October 1853, registered in October-December 1853 in Edmonton, and baptised on 6 November 1853 at St Mary the Virgin, Cheshunt when they were living at Flamstead End.
In the 1861 censu as Eliza Dye aged 10, born in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, and living with her parents (William and Eliza), four brothers (Alfred, James, John and Joseph), two sisters (Emily and Mary Ann) and uncle (Daniel Wallis), and four cousins (George, Eliza, Emma and Lucy Wallis) in Flamstead End, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire.
In the 1871 census as Elisa (sic - in the index, Eliza on the original) Dye aged 20, born in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, single, a general servant out of employment, and living with her parents (William and Elisa), three brothers (Alfred, John and Joseph), two sisters (Emily and Mary Sage), nephew (William Sage), second cousin (George Wallis) and a visitor (uncle? - Daniel Wallis) in Flamstead End, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire.
In the 1881 census as Eliza Dye aged 29, born in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, single, a laundress, and living with her parents (William and Eliza), brother (Alfred), and nephew (William) in Flamstead End, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire.
Her father died on 11 June 1883 and was on buried 14 June 1883 in Hertfordshire.
Marriage of Eliza Dye and John Wiggs in FreeBMD in July-September 1889 in Edmonton (3A 350)
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973 for Eliza Dye aged 39 father William Dye and John Higgs (sic) in 1889 in Cheshunt, Hrtf.
Entry in FreeReg for the marriage of Eliza Dye aged 39 and a spinster of Cheshunt father William Dye deceased, and John Wiggs aged 33 and a bachelor and labourer of Cheshunt father Joseph Wiggs deceased, on 14 September 1889 at St Mary the Virgin, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, witnessed by George William Andrews (brother-in-law?) and H G Stratton.
In the 1891 census as Eliza Wiggs aged 39, born in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, and living with her husband (John) in four rooms at Flamstead End, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire.
In the 1901 census as Eliza Wiggs aged 49, born in Flamstead End, Hertfordshire, and living with her husband (John) and nephew (John Dye aged 20, single and a general labourer - I cannot locate any other reference to him) at Flamstead End, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire.
In the 1911 census as Eliza Wigg (sic - in the index, Wiggs on the original) aged 60, born in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, married for 22 years with no children, and living with her brother (Alfred) in four rooms at Flamstead End, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. I cannot locate her husband.
Her brother died on 28 August 1916 and was buried on 31 August 1916 in Hertfordshire.
Her husband died on 2 October 1916 in Edmonton and was buried on 6 October 1916 in Hertfordshire.
In the the 1921 census as Eliza Wiggs aged 70, born in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, widowed and living with Henry and William Dye at The Bridge, Flamstead End, Cheshunt, Middlesex. I suspect that Henry Dye was Henry Scrivener son of George and Caroline formerly Murray.
Death of Eliza Wiggs in FreeBMD in October-December 1929 aged 78 in Edmonton (3A 648).
Entry in Deceased Online for Eiza Wiggs died 28 November 1929 and buried 5 December 1929 in Hertfordshire.
There are eighteen entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Eliza Dye.
Note that although Edmonton was in Middlesex it included Cheshunt which was in Hertfordshire. Flamstead End is a mile NW of Cheshunt on the other (west) side of A10.
Eliza Dye was the sister of Emily Dye, mother of Edith Mary Andrews, wife of George Andrew Henry Barton, second cousin once removed of Dennis Alfred Barton, my brother-in-law.
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