Monday 24 October 2016

Emily Stephenson

Emily Stephenson, Tom and Eliza's last child, was born in Iford, close to Lewes, in the third quarter of 1890.

Iford Village.jpg

Iford
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She disappears from the record early, and was clearly unknown to Alice Edgar's son Wilfred, who said his mother's family consisted of three sisters (Alice, Bessie and Blanche) and William. I suspect she is the Emily Stephenson whose death was registered in the East Preston District of Sussex in the first quarter of 1900. Tom and Eliza are known to have been living in this District, but I suggested in a previous post that an illegible entry in the 1901 Census refers to their daughter Blanche, who was maid in a school in Goring-on-Sea, which is in East Preston.

According to the 1911 Census, Eliza had lost two children. I think Emily was one of them, and that she had a sister or brother who died in between two censuses.










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