Birth: 12 April 1840 Dockenfield, Hampshire, UK
Father: Richard Gosden 1793-1867
Mother: Charlotte Dudman 1897-1869
Christening: 10 May 1840 St Mary, the Virgin, Frensham, Surrey, UK
Marriage: 29 May 1862 St James, Holloway, Islington, Middlesex, UK
Husband: James Henry Curtis 1839-1932
Death: 9 July 1918 Mono, Dufferin, Ontario, Canada
Buried: Plot 39, St Andrew Section, Forest Lawn Cemetery, Mono, Orangeville, Dufferin, Ontario, Canada.
Henry James Curtis 1862-1944
Fanny Curtis 1863-1958
William Henry Curtis 1867-1943
Charles Curtis 1868-1957
David Curtis 1869-1945
Frederick George Curtis 1871-1939
Albert Curtis 1873-1965
Ernest Curtis 1875-1971
Eliza Mary Curtis 1878-1894
Arthur Edward Curtis 1880-1904
Annie Louise Curtis [Rintoul] 1882-1937
Birth of Eliza Gosden in FreeBMD in April-June 1840 in Farnham (4 122).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Eliza Gosden baptised on 10 May 1840 in Frensham, Surrey, parents Richard and Charlotte Gosden.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Baptisms, 1813-1912 for Eliza Gosden baptised on 11 March (sic) 1840 at Frensham, St Mary, parents Richard and Charlotte Gosden. "Baptisms folemized in the Parifh of Frensham in the County of Surrey in the Year 1840 18 May 10th No. 1105 Eliza Daughter of Richard, [a] Carpenter, and Chalotte Gosden of Frensham".
In the 1841 census as Eliza Gosden aged 1, born in Hampshire, and living wth John Deadman (grandfather?), Stephen Ardo (half-brother?), Richard and Charlott Gosden (parents?), George Gosden (brother?) and Sara and Eliza Gosden (sisters?) in Dockenfield, Hampshire.
In the 1851 census as Eliza Garden (sic - in the index, Gosden on the original) aged 10, born in Dockenfield, Hampshire, and living with her parents (Bich??de and Charlotte ), brother (George), and nephew (William) at Batts Corner, Dockenfield, Extra Parochial Farnham, Surrey.
I cannot locate her in the 1861 census.
Marriage of Eliza Gosden and James Curtis in FreeBMD in April-June 1962 in Islington (1b 276).
Two entries in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1930 for the banns of Eliza Gosden and James Curtis at St James, Holloway, Islington "Page 49 The Year 1862 [...] No. 508 Banns of Marriage between James Curtis Bachelor and Eliza Gosden Spinster both of this Parish were published as follows: 1st, on Sunday May 4th [...] 2d, on Sunday May 11 [...] 3d, on Sunday May 18", and for the marriage of Eliza Gosden, father Richard Gosden, and James Curtis on 29 May 1862 at St James, Holloway, Islington. "Page 26 1862 Marriage solemnized at St James Church in the Parish of Islington in the County of Middlesex [No.] 71 May 29th James Curtis [of] full age, [a] Bachelor and Bricklayer [of] St. James Holloway, [father] William Curtis, [a] Carpenter, [and] Eliza Gosden [of] full age, [a] Spinster [of] St James Holloway, [father] Richard Gosden, [a] Carpenter. Married in the Church of St James according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns [...] in the Presence of David Curtis and Frances Curtis".
Her first son was born in Richmond in 1862, daughter in Islington in 1863, two sons in Richmond in 1867 and 1868, and two sons in Kingston in 1869 and 1871.
In the 1871 census as Eliza Curtis aged 30, born in Farnham, Surrey, and living with her husband (James), five sons (Charley, David, George, Harry and William), daughter (Jane) and a visitor (Eliza Morrison aged 11 and born in London, Middlesex) at 7 Dino Cottages, Hurbert Road, Wimbledon, Surrey.
Entry in Ancestry Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935 for Eliza Curtis aged 32 arrived on 9 July 1872 at Quebec, Canada on Mississippi from Liverpool accompanied by Jas (husband), and Fanny, Harry, William Chales, David and George (children).
In the 1881 census as Eliza Curtis aged 40, born in England and living with her husband (James), eight sons (Albert, Athur, Charles, David, Earnest, Henry J, George and William) and two daughters (Eliza M and Fanney) in York, Ontario. The original is illegible.
In the 1891 census as Eliza Curtis aged 50, born in England, parents born in England, and living with her husband (James), four sons (Albert, Arthur E, Earnest and George) and two daughters (Anna L and Eliza M) in Mono, Cardwell, Ontario, Canada.
In the 1901 census as Eliza Curtis aged 61, born on 12 April 1840 in England, parents born in England, immigrated in 1872, and living with her husband (James), three sons (Arthur E, Earnest and George) and daughter (Annie Louise) in Mono, Cardwell, Ontario, Canada.
In the 1911 census as Eliza Curtis aged 71, born in England in April 1840, immigrated in 1872, and living with her husband (Whitfield Jessop - sic, in the index, James on the orginal) and son (George) in Mono, Dufferin, Ontario.
Entry in Ancestry Ontario, Canada, Deaths, 1869-1938 and Deaths Overseas, 1939-1947 for Eliza Curtis born in Surrey, England, a farmer's wife, on 9 July 1918 aged 78 in Mono, Dufferin, Ontario, Canada of Myocarditis.
Entry in FindaGrave for Eliza Gosden Curtis born 12 April 1840, died 9 July 1918 and buried in Plot 39, St Andrew Section, Forest Lawn Cemetery, Orangeville, Dufferin, Ontario, Canada.
There are fifty four entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Eliza Gosden.
Eliza Gosden was the daughter of Charlotte Dudman, sister of Harriet Dudman, wife of Charles Croucher, my second great grandfather,.
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