Birth: 17 March 1867 9 Bright Street, Bromley, Middlesex, UK
Father: John Free 1840-1914
Mother: Eliza Lashmar 1842-1879
Christening: 28 April 1867 St Michael and All Angels, Bromley, Middlesex, UK
Marriage: Believed not married
Death: 24 September 1938 Cray Valley Hospital, St. Pauls Cray, Kent, UK
None known
Birth of Eliza Free in FreeBMD in April-June 1867 in Poplar (1c 622).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1917 for Eliza Free baptised on 28 April 1867 at Bromley St Michael and All Angels, Tower Hamlets, parents John and Eliza Free. "Page 78 Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of S Michael and All Angels Bromley in the County of Middlesex in the Year 1867 1867 April 25 Born Mar 17 1867 No. 617 Eliza, parents John, an Engine Driver, and Eliza Free of 9 Bright Street.
Her brother was born in Poplar in 1869.
In the 1871 census as Eliza Free aged 4, born in Poplar, Middlesex, and living with her parents (John and Eliza Free), brother (Charles) and sister (Ellen) at 21 Bright Street, Bromley St Leonard, London.
Her sisters were born in Bromley in 1871 and 1873.
Her mother died in 1879.
In the 1881 census as Eliza Free aged 14, born in Bromley, Middlesex, a dress maker, and living with her widowed father (John), brother (Charles) and three sisters (Ellen, Emma and Paulina) at 17 Bright Street, Bromley St Leonard, London.
Her father married Emma Beaumont in Poplar in 1881.
In the 1891 census as Eliza Free aged 24, born in Bow, London, single, and a housemaid living with Henry Parry Gilbey (aged 67, born in Bishop Stortford, Hertfordshire and a wine merchant), his wife (Catherine aged 60 and born in St Martins, London), his married daughter (Reda Kate Belber aged 28 and born in Bloomsbury, London), her husband and two sons and eleven other servants at 1 Park Crescent, St Marylebone All Souls, London.
In the 1901 census as Eliza Free aged 34, born in Bromley, Bow, London, single, and a housemaid living with James S Bridgett (aged 77, born in Kingswood, Gloucestershire and a retired sugar merchant), his wife (Mary B aged 75 and born in Kennington, London), his neice (Margaret F Rouse aged 21, born in Bradford, Yorkshire and single), a visitor (Helen Legge aged 51, born in Brighton and single) and eight other servants at Stoke Park, Stoke next Guildford, Surrey.
In the 1911 census as Eliza Free aged 44, born in Bromley by Bow, Essex, single, and a housemaid living with Frances Emily Legard (aged 61, born in Ash, Lancashire, widowed), her cousin (Hope Hamilton aged 46, born in London and single), her son (Arnold Bexley Vansittart), her three daughters (Sibell Alice Vansittart, Honoria Edith Vansittart and Marjorie Maria Vansittart), and fifteen other servants in seventeen rooms at 24 Cadogan Square, Chelsea, London S W.
Death of Eliza Free in FreeBMD in July-September 1938 aged 71 in Bromley (2a 742).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for Emma Free died 24 September 1938 in Kent probate 9 November 1938 in London. "Free Eliza of 22 Broxbourne-road Orpington Kent spinster died 24 September 1938 at Cray Valley Hospital St. Pauls Cray Kent Probate London 9 November to Edward Croxford retired civil servant and Thomas Sanderson printers clerk. Effects £ 732 19s. 4d." Edward Croxford was the husband of her sister Paulina and was living at 22 Broxbourne Road, and Thomas Sanderson was the husband of her sister Emma.
Note that Bromley, Middlesex and Bromley, Kent are two very different places.
Eliza Free was my eighth cousin three times removed.
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