Eliza Sharpe (Sharp) [Belcher] (1870-1946)

Dates

Birth: 21 January 1870 Donisthorpe, Derbyshire, UK
Father: James Sharpe 1824-1901
Mother: Mary Evans 1830-1876

Christening: Unknown

Marriage: April-June 1890 Ashby de la Zouch, Leiscestershire< UK
Husband: Frank Belcher 1868-1944

Death: January-March 1946 Shardlow, Derbyshire, UK

Children

Mary Elizabeth Belcher 1890
Alice May Belcher [Payne] 1895-1982
Fancis Joseph Belcher 1897
James William Belcher 1905-1980
Another child died before 1911

Notes

Birth of Eliza Sharpe in FreeBMD in January-March 1870 in Ashby Z (7a 96).

In the 1871 census as Eliza Sharp (sic - on the original) aged 1, born in Donisthorpe Derbyshire, and living with her parents (James and Mary), three brothers (Harry, Thomas and William) and two sisters (Elizabeth and Mary) in Ashby de la Zouch, Leiscestershire.

Her mother died in Moira on 2 May 1876.

In the 1881 census as Eliza Sharpe aged 11, born in Moira, Leicestershire, and living with her widowed father (James), two brothers (Harry and Thomas), sister (Ellen), and a servant (Marta Berry aged 42, born in Henlow, Bedfordshire, single and a housekeeper) in Furnace, Ashby de la Zouch, Leiscestershire.

Marriage of Eliza Sharp and Frank Belcher in FreeBMD in April-June 1890 in Ashby Z (7a 221).

Her daughter was born in Ashby de la Zouch in 1890.

In the 1891 census as Eliza Belcher aged 21, born in Moira, Leicestershire, and living with her husband (Frank) and daughter (Mary E) in four rooms at the 1st Lodge (of Willesley Hall), Willesley, Derbyshire.

Her daughter was born in Walshall in 1895 and son in Ashby de la Zouch in 1897.

In the 1901 census as Eliza Belcher aged 30, born in Funnace, Nottinghamshire (sic - on the original), and living with her husband (Frank), son (Francis J) and two daughters (Mary E and Alice M) at ? Farm, Moira Road, in Ashby Woulds, Leicestershire.

Her son was born in Moira in 1905.

In the 1911 census as Eliza Belcher aged 40, born in Moira, Leicestershire, married for twentyone years with five children one having died, and living with her husband (Frank) and two sons (Joseph and William) in four rooms in Cockspur Road, Donisthorpe, Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire.

In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Eliza Belcher born 21 January 1870, married, and living with Frank Belcher (husband?) and Alice M Roach at 27 Boulton Street, Shardlow, Derbyshire.

Her husband died in Shardlow in 1944.

Death of Eliza Belcher in FreeBMD in January-March 1946 in Shardlow (7b 617).

There are 44 entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Eliza Sharpe.

Note that Donisthorpe was transfered from Derbyshire to Leicestershire in 1888.

Relationship

Eliza Sharpe was the mother of James William Belcher, husband of Rachel Maud Brown, partner of Andrew Thomas Bloomfield, Felicity's half second cousin three times removed.

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