See also
Name:
Elizabeth Thornton
Sex:
Female
Father:
Mother:
Birth:
2 Jan 1859
Her Baptismal Register entry gives her date of birth although she was baptised 3 years after her birth. Why the long delay is not known. However, her birth registration confirms the year and quarter. Although the 1861 Census gives her birthplace as Bethnal Green, London, she was born in Bethnal Green, Middlesex as Bethnal Green was only a London district (from 1837) for the purpose of registration. Before 1889 the civil parish of Bethnal Green was in Middlesex.
Census (living with parents):
7 Apr 1861 (age 2)
1861 Census - living with parents
Baptism:
25 Jul 1861 (age 2)
St Bartholomew's Church1
Address: Coventry Road, Bethnal Green, Middlesex
Her siblings Caroline, Mary Ann, and Martha were baptised on the same occasion, which would have been attended by their parents, presumably after the incumbent had persuaded their parents that they should have all their children baptised.
Present (sibling):
25 Jul 1861 (age 2)
Present at Baptism of her sister Caroline Ann
Present (sibling):
25 Jul 1861 (age 2)
Present at Baptism of her sister Mary Ann
Present (sibling):
25 Jul 1861 (age 2)
Present at Baptism of her sister Martha
Present (sibling):
17 Mar 1867 (age 8)
Present at Baptism of her sister Louisa
Present (sibling):
18 Jul 1869 (age 10)
Present at Baptism of her sister Emma
Census (living with parents):
2 Apr 1871 (age 12)
1871 Census - living with parents
No records for Elizabeth can be found after the 1871 Census. An 1881 Census record for an Elizabeth Dowell working as servant in a Coffee House at 25 Fish Street Hill (The Swan), St Michael Crooked Lane, London was found to be for a different Elizabeth Dowell by the register entry for her marriage to an Alfred Walker which showed her father to be a Charles Thornton who was coachman and not Thomas Thornton ("our" Elizabeth's father) who was chair maker.4 5
Parish Register for Baptism of Elizabeth Thornton, St Bartholomew, Bethnal Green, Middlesex, 25 July 1861, London Metropolitan Archives.
General Register Office, Civil Registration Index (England & Wales) for Birth of Elizabeth Thornton, (Period, Jan-Mar 1859). Custom Id: Births 1859 Q1 Bethnal Green, Vol. 1c, Page 277; Cit. Date: Q1 1859. General Register Office. Call Number: CRI(E&W) Births.
1861 Census for Household of Thomas Thornton in Bethnal Green, London, (Ancestry website). Custom Id: RG9/256, Folio 89, Page 34, Schedule 217; Name, age and birthplace. Cit. Date: 7 April 1861. National Archives. Call Number: RG10/502.
1881 England, Wales & Scotland census, 25 Fish Street Hill (The Swan), St Michael Crooked Lane, London, RG11/380, Folio 76, Page 3, Schedule 12, head of household: Henry James Phipps, National Archives.
Parish Register for Marriage of Alfred Walker and Elizabeth Thornton, St Boltolph, Aldgate, Middlesex, 18 February 1883, London Metropolitan Archives.