Part of the Ingram-Green family tree (Great-great-grandmother)
Family background and early life
Eliza Skingley was born in about December 1839 at South Ockendon, Essex. She was the youngest of six children born to Thomas Skingley (1785–1874) and his wife, Susannah née Tunbridge (1795–1862). She was baptised at St Nicholas of Myra’s Church, South Ockendon on 8 December 1839.
Thomas Skingley and Susannah Tunbridge had been married at St Botolph’s Church, Aldgate on 12 October 1817. Over the next 12 years, the couple had four sons and two daughters.
By the time of the first national census in June 1841, the family were living at South Ockendon, where 56-year old Thomas was employed as a gardener for Thomas Bennett Sturgeon, a Merino sheep breeder, at South Ockendon Hall.
Ten years later, Thomas and Susannah, with their two youngest children were still at South Ockendon. 66-year old Thomas was still employed as an estate gardener.
At the 1861 census, Thomas was now working as a manservant for George Maconachie M.A. at Orsett, about four miles east of South Ockendon. Susannah, meanwhile, was living with her daughter, Caroline (Mills) and family in Rainham.
Eliza, aged 22, had now moved out of the family home and was working as a cook in the home of George Meggy, the proprietor of the Chelmsford Chronicle, at New Bridge Street, Chelmsford.
Marriage and children
On 4 October 1862, 22-year old Eliza Skingley married 28-year old Joseph Henry Green (an agricultural labourer) at the Church of St Helen & St Giles, Rainham (then part of Romford, Essex, but now on the London Borough of Havering).
The couple had five children, four of whom died young, leaving only one son, Joseph George, born in August 1864, to become an adult.
At the 1871 census, Joseph and Eliza were living in West Thurrock with 6-year old Joseph George (recorded as George) and a 2-year old son, Lee. [No further record of Lee Green has been found, nor any of the other children.] The residential address is simply recorded as “low house”, with no street indicated.
By the next census, the couple had left the land and moved to East Ham, where Joseph was employed as a labourer at a gas works. Together with their only surviving son, Joseph (also a gasworks labourer, aged 17), the family were living at Crescent Road, North side, East Ham.
The couple remained in the East Ham area until Joseph died in December 1911, age 77. He was buried at St Mary Magdalene’s Church, East Ham on 21 December.
Eliza outlived her husband for 4½ years and died in April 1916. She was buried alongside Thomas at St Mary Magdalene’s Church, East Ham on 26 April 1916.
Sources
Ancestry.co.uk:
1841 England Census
1851 England Census
1861 England Census
1861 England Census
1871 England Census
1881 England Census
1891 England Census
1901 England Census
1911 England Census
Essex, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1918
Essex, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1994
Essex, England, Church of England Marriages, 1754-1935
Freereg.org.uk:
South Ockendon St Nicholas parish register:
8 December 1839. Baptism of Eliza Skingley