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Elizabeth BRICKLAND(POWELL, Sissie)

1876 – 1946 · Chester, Cheshire
Father: Joseph BRICKLAND · Mother: Sarah SUDDONES
👶Birth
08/01/1876
🏛️ Victoria becomes Empress of India
Chester, Cheshire 📍 Free BMD
Ref: Chester 8a 414
Baptism
07/05/1876
St John the Baptist, Chester, Cheshire 📍 Ancestry.co.uk
🏠Lived (5)
1881
1 Crosskeys Court, Chester, Cheshire 📍 📎 Census
🏠Lived (15)
1891
🏛️ Free elementary education
17 Bridge Place, Lower Bridge Street, Chester, Cheshire 📍 1891 Census 📎 Census
💼Occupation (15)
1891
Scholar 1891 Census
💒Marriage (23)
1899
🏛️ Second Boer War
Arthur PAWLOUSKI
St Martin Church, Nicholas Street, Chester, Cheshire 📍 Free BMD
Ref: Chester 8a 728
🏠Lived (25)
1901
🏛️ Death of Queen Victoria
115 Rocky Lane, Walton-On-The-Hill, Liverpool, Merseyside 📍
with Arthur PAWLOUSKI 1901 Census 📎 Census

In 1901 Robina Laycock aged 17 born in Leeds lived with the family as a domestic servant

🏠Lived (29)
1905
4 Lower Breck Road, Liverpool, Merseyside 📍
with Arthur PAWLOUSKI 📎 Baptism
🏠Lived (35)
1911
🏛️ National Insurance Act
8 Lower Breck Road, Liverpool, Merseyside 📍
with Arthur PAWLOUSKI 📎 Census
🏠Lived (45)
1921
🏛️ Irish Free State established
Pear Tree Farm, Hermitage Road, Little Saughall, Cheshire, CH1 6AE 📍 1921 Census 📎 Census
🏠Lived (63)
1939
🏛️ Second World War
Upton Farm, Upton Lane, Chester, Cheshire 📍
with Arthur PAWLOUSKI 📎 Image
✝️Death (70)
24/02/1946
🏛️ National Health Service Act passed
Chester, Cheshire 📍 Free BMD
Grave Headstone
🪦Burial
28/02/1946
The Parish Church of the Holy Ascension, Upton, Chester, Cheshire 📍 British Newspaper Archive
Grave Headstone
📎 Grave 📎 Image 📎 Grave 📎 Grave 📎 Grave 📎 Newspaper

The original headstone read (since replaced):

IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
ELIZABETH POWELL
BORN 8th JANUARY 1876
DIED 24th FEBRUARY 1946

O FOR A TOUCH OF THE VANISHED HAND

ALSO OUR DEAR DAD
ARTHUR POWELL
(HUSBAND OF ABOVE)
PASSED AWAY 6th AUG. 1952
AGED 78 YEARS
EVER REMEMBERED

[Left Kerb]
ALSO HIS WIFE HILDA SAUNDERS, DIED 31, JAN 1990, AGED 84 YEARS.

The grave is to the far left hand side of the church looking from the road, near to the hedges and about a quarter back.

Replacement headstone

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🏠Lived (76)
1952
🏛️ Elizabeth II accedes to the throne
Holly Bank Farm, Great Sutton, Cheshire 📍
with Arthur PAWLOUSKI
Children with Arthur PAWLOUSKI
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b. 1901, 115 Rocky Lane, Walton-On-The-Hill, Liverpool, Merseyside
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b. 1902, 115 Rocky Lane, Walton-On-The-Hill, Liverpool, Merseyside · d. 1985, Birkenhead, Wirral, Cheshire · m. 1928 Margaret Kathleen HAIGHTON
F
b. 1905, 4 Lower Breck Road, Liverpool, Merseyside · d. 1990 · m. 1935 John Henry SAUNDERS
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b. 1908, Liverpool, Merseyside
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b. 1911 · m. 1941 James BEECH
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b. 1913, Liverpool, Merseyside · d. 2005 · m. 1937 Allan Russell WILLIS
M
b. 1915, Liverpool, Merseyside
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b. 1917, Liverpool, Merseyside · d. 2007 · m. 1969 Edgar RAMSEY
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b. 1923, Chester, Cheshire · d. 2003, Chester, Cheshire · m. 1949 Harold John LARGE
Notes

Also known as "Sissie"

Had 8 girls and one boy

According to Evelyn Brickland she used to put her hands over her ears when her husband would slaughter the pigs as she couldn't listen to them squealing.

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