Eliza Young [Burgess] (1853-1922)


Dates

Birth: January-March 1853 Southwick, Sussex, UK
Father: William Young 1802-1861/81
Mother: Mary Harlote c1806-1882

Christening: Unknown

Marriage: 5 October 1856 Southwick, Sussex, UK
Husband: William Burgess 1831-1913

Death: July-September 1822 Littlehampton, Sussex, UK

Children

Eliza Emma Burgess [Richardson] 1857-a1886
Harry Burgess 1860-1951
Jane Hooker Burgess [Flavin] 1863-1951
Isabella Knight Burgess [Allen] 1865-1921
Alice Knight Burgess 1867-a1893
William Thomas Knight Burgess 1870-1942
Kate Mary Burgess [Betsworth] 1873-1923
Richard John P Burgess 1876-a1899
Harry Edward O Burgess 1879-1958

There were two children with the first name Harry, although the second was known as Edward.

Notes

Birth of Eliza Young in FreeBMD in January-March 1838 in Steyning (7 413).

In the 1841 census as Elzia Young aged 3, born in Sussex, and living with William and Mary (parents?), Abraham and William (brothers?), and Jane and Mary (sisters?) in Church Street, Southwick, Sussex.

In the 1851 census as Eliza Young aged 13, born in Southwick, Sussex, and living with her parents (William and Mary), two brothers (Abraham and George), and two sisters (Emma and Mary) in Church Street, Southwick, Sussex.

Marriage of Eliza Young and William Burgess in FreeBMD in October-December 1856 in Steyning (2b 417).

Marriage of Eliza Young and William Burgess in the IGI on 5 October 1856 in Southwick, Sussex.

In the 1861 census as Eliza Burgess aged 23, born in Southwick, Sussex, and living with her husband (William), son (Harry) and daughter (Eliza Emma) who were lodging at 32 New England Street, Brighton St Peter, Sussex.

Her children were born in Brighton up to Alice in 1867, but Thomas was born in Caterham, Surrey in 1870.

In the 1871 census as Eliza Burgers (sic - in the index, correct on the original) aged 33, born in Southwick, Sussex, and living with her husband (William), two sons (Harry and William K T), and four daughters (Alice K, Eliza E, Isabel and Jane H) in the Village, Shere, Surrey.

Kate was born in Dorking in 1873, but Richard was born in Lyminster in 1876.

In the 1881 census as Eliza Burgess aged 43, born in Southwick, Sussex, and living with her husband (Willm), three sons (Edwd, Harry, and John) and three daughters (Alice, Isabella and Kate) in Wick Street, Leominster, Sussex.

In the 1891 census as Eliza Burgess aged 53, born in Southwick, Sussex, and living with her husband (William), three sons (Harry E O, Richard P and William) in Wick Street, Lyminster, Sussex.

In the 1901 census as Elza Burgers (sic - in the index, correct on the original), aged 62, born in Southwick, Sussex, and living with her husband (William) in Wick Street, Lyminster, Sussex.

In the 1911 census as Elza Burgess aged 73 and living with William (husband?) in Littlehampton, Steyning, Sussex.

Her husband died in East Preston in 1913.

Death of Eliza Burgess in FreeBMD in July-September 1922 aged 84 in E Preston (2b 386) which included Littlehampton.

There is an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Eliza Young born in 1838 in Southwick, Sussex, parents William Edward and Mary Young, her marriage to William Burgess, her son, and her death in 1922 in Littlehampton, Sussex.

Note Leominster changed its name to Lyminster and is on A264 between A27 and A259.

Relationship

Eliza Young was the first cousin once removed of Ellen, wife of Thomas Paine, my eighth cousin three times removed.

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