Part of the Ingram-Green family tree (Great-great-grandmother)
Family background and early life
Elizabeth Jane Brown was born in Clerkenwell, London on 26 December 1829, the second of 11 children born to George Henry Brown (1805–1881) and Mary Oxley née Jelliman (1808–1872).
George Henry Brown and Mary Oxley Jelliman married at St Saviour’s Church, Southwark (now Southwark Cathedral) on 24 September 1827. Their first child, Mary Anne was born in Clerkenwell 6 months later, on 4 April 1828, followed by Elizabeth Jane on 26 December 1829. Over the next 20 years, the couple had a further nine children (5 girls, 4 boys).
Elizabeth and her younger brother, George James Brown (born 15 January 1832) were baptised together on 12 February 1832 at St Bartholomew the Great Church in Smithfield. On the baptism register, the family’s address was 23 Red Lion Street, Clerkenwell and George senior’s occupation was bootmaker.
At the first national in June 1841, the family were living at Barclay Street in St Pancras, where George was still employed as a boot maker. Ten years later, the family had moved to Brewers Street in St Pancras, where 20-year Elizabeth was still living with her parents.
Marriage and children
On 25 October 1853, 23-year old Elizabeth Jane Brown married 26-year old Thomas Litchfield Bosworth at St James’s Church, Sussex Gardens in Paddington. Both of the couple were recorded as living at 6 Cambridge Place, Paddington, then the home of Thomas’s parents, John and Frances Bosworth. On the marriage register, her father George Brown’s occupation was recorded as “baker”.
The couple’s first child, Annie Clark Bosworth was born at 3 Portland Road, Kensington on 30 May 1856. She was followed by John, born in Wandsworth on 19 August 1858 and Thomas, born in Clapham on 19 January 1861.
At the census in April 1861, the couple were living at Bromell’s Buildings in Clapham with Annie and 3-month old Thomas, and a 19-year old domestic servant. 2-year old John was being looked after by Jane and Harry Budd at Matrimony Hill, about ½ mile to the north. [Bromell’s Buildings was part of the Clapham Rectory Estate and the warren of streets and “squalid cottages” was demolished and redeveloped in about 1898.]
After the birth of a fourth child, William, born 11 September 1863, all four children were baptised at Holy Trinity Church, Clapham on 11 November 1863. The baptism was conducted by Revd. Henry Whitehead, who had been influential in determining the source of the cholera epidemic in 1854 in Soho.
Sadly, Thomas died in June 1866, aged 5.
During the next six years, the family moved away from Clapham approximately 11 miles to Leytonstone in north-east London, where Thomas set up a butcher’s shop at 18 Leytonstone High Street.
Three further children were born at Leytonstone:
Frank, born 5 January 1869, baptised 31 January 1869
Harry, born 22 October 1870, baptised 20 November 1870
Florence, born 1 February 1876, baptised 6 April 1876
The three children were all baptised at St John the Baptist Church, Leytonstone.
At the census in April 1871, Thomas and Elizabeth were living at 18 High Street with four of their children, Annie, William, Frank and 6-month old Harry. John, aged 12, was now at Leicester House School in Carshalton. As well as an 18-year old domestic servant, the property was also home to three butcher’s assistants, including 14-year old Mary Dearmer.
Elizabeth, died in September 1877, aged just 47, leaving Thomas with seven children, with three under 10 years old, including 18-month old Florence.
Sources
Ancestry.co.uk:
1841 England Census
1851 England Census
1861 England Census
1871 England Census
Essex, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1918
London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906
London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921
Borough Photos: Lambeth