Eliza Whiting 1837-1862

Parents:     David Whiting and Sarah Ragg (1)
Born:          6th November 1837 in Burton End, Haverhill. (1,2)
Baptised:   8th November 1837 at St Mary's Parish Church, Haverhill. (1)
Married:      Samuel Moore, batchelor, labourer, of Withersfield, son of Edward Moore, labourer, on 18th October 1856 at St Mary's Church, Withersfield. Witnessed by George Whiting and Mary Ann Turner(?)(3,4)
Children:    Ellen Whiting/Moore b.1856(5) died aged 14
Died:           1862 in Withersfield. Buried on 13th June 1862 at St Mary's Church, Withersfield. (6,8)

Bio:             Eliza is living in Burton End, Haverhill with her parents and siblings on the 1841 census. She is in the same situation for the 1851 census, living at home with her parents and elder brother George. She married Samuel Moore, of Withersfield in 1856 and went to live with him there. She appears here on the 1861 census, living nextdoor to Samuel's parents and with a child, Ellen, who was baptised at Withersfield Church on 12th April 1857.(9) She is four on the census, and was born as a Whiting in Haverhill before Eliza's marriage.(5) Eliza was to die in 1862, and Samuel married again several years later to Susan Burton.(7)

Eliza's daughter Ellen died in Burton End aged 14 and was buried at Haverhill Cemetery on 19th October 1870.(8)

 image of Death Certificate courtesy of the GRO. © Crown Copyright.

Sources:      

(1) Suffolk Records Office, Bury St Edmunds, Parish Registers of St Mary's Church, Haverhill. Fiche 578/4/p9 of 37
(2) Birth Register. 4th Quarter 1837, Risbridge District, Volume 12 Page 289
(3) Suffolk Records Office, Bury St Edmunds, Parish Registers of St Mary's Church, Withersfield. Fiche 653/4/p4
(4) Marriage Register. 4th Quarter 1856, Risbridge District, Volume 12 Page 825
(5) Birth Register. 3rd Quarter 1856, Risbridge District, Volume 4a Page 333
(6) Death Register. 2nd Quarter 1862, Risbridge District, Volume 4a Page 242
(7) Marriage Register. 4th Quarter 1865, Risbridge District, Volume 4a Page 799
(8) SFHS, Suffolk Burial Index, issue 2, 1538-1900
(9) SFHS, Suffolk Baptism Index, Clare Deanery, 1813-1900