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Birth 01/05/1844 | Bratton, Wiltshire 📍 ⓘ1851 Census Find My Past Ref: Westbury 8/495 1881 Census 📎 View Father: David Snlelgrove, Farmer |
Lived (7) 1851 🏛️ Irish Potato Famine | Bratton, Wiltshire 📍 ⓘ1851 Census 📎 View |
Occupation (7) 1851 🏛️ Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace | Scholar ⓘ1851 Census |
Baptism 10/10/1852 | St James' Church, Church Road, Bratton, Wiltshire, BA13 4SY 📍 ⓘSandie Deacon Baptism Records 📎 View |
Marriage (22) 26/12/1866 🏛️ Transatlantic telegraph cable completed | William CORNISH St Stephens Church, Commercial Street, Spitalfields, Middlesex 📍 ⓘFree BMD Ref: Whitechapel 1c 874 📎 View 📎 View The witnesses were David Snelgrove and Harriet Cornish |
Lived (22) 1866 | Bratton, Wiltshire 📍 |
Lived (27) 1871 🏛️ Bank Holidays introduced | Bere's Mere Farm, nr Wellhead Lane, Westbury, Wiltshire 📍 with William CORNISH 📎 View |
Occupation (27) 1871 | Farm Bailiff's Wife |
Lived (29) 1873 | Wellhead, Westbury, Wiltshire 📍 with William CORNISH ⓘBirth Certificate |
Lived (37) 1881 | Plough Inn, Bratton Road, Westbury, Wiltshire 📍 with William CORNISH ⓘ1881 Census 📎 View In 1881 Annie B Cornish (Niece) born Westbury aged 8 Scholar was living with the family |
Lived (42) 1886 | Birchanger Farm, Bratton Road, Westbury, Wiltshire, BA13 4TA 📍 with William CORNISH ⓘBaptism Records |
Lived (47) 1891 🏛️ Free elementary education | Birchanger Farm, Bratton Road, Westbury, Wiltshire, BA13 4TA 📍 with William CORNISH ⓘ1891 Census 📎 View |
Lived (57) 1901 🏛️ Second Boer War | Birchanger Farm, Bratton Road, Westbury, Wiltshire, BA13 4TA 📍 with William CORNISH ⓘ1901 Census 📎 View |
Lived (67) 1911 🏛️ National Insurance Act | Birchanger Farm, Bratton Road, Westbury, Wiltshire, BA13 4TA 📍 ⓘ1911 Census Bratton History Association Kellys Directory 📎 View Kelly's Directory records that Mrs Cornish was the farmer at Birchanger in 1911. |
Lived (77) 1921 🏛️ Irish Free State established | Greenhill Farm, Southwick, Trowbridge, Wiltshire 📍 ⓘ1921 Census |
Will (80) 19/09/1924 | ⓘWill 📎 View |
Lived (83) 1927 | Greenhill Farm, Southwick, Trowbridge, Wiltshire 📍 ⓘProbate Index |
Death (83) 15/02/1927 | Greenhill Farm, Southwick, Trowbridge, Wiltshire 📍 Morbus Cordis (Heart Disease) ⓘFind My Past Ref: Westbury W. 5a 207 Aged 82 Grant of Probate Death Certificate 📎 View Aged 82. Widow of William Cornish, farmer. |
Burial 19/02/1927 | St James' Church, Church Road, Bratton, Wiltshire, BA13 4SY 📍 Old Churchyard ⓘWiltshire Burials Index Burial Records Find My Past 📎 View Name: Eliza Cornish |
Probate 03/05/1927 | Salisbury, Wiltshire 📍 Effects: £753 1s 9d ⓘProbate Index 📎 View |
Children with William CORNISH
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b. 1867, Easterton, Wiltshire · d. 1907, Birchanger Farm, Bratton Road, Westbury, Wiltshire, BA13 4TA
b. 1868, Easterton, Wiltshire · d. 1921, Blue Bell Farm, Earls Croome, Worcestershire · m. Naomi Ann GAISFORD
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b. 1870, Westbury, Wiltshire · d. 1954, North Bradley, Wiltshire
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b. 1872, Westbury, Wiltshire · d. 1955, 64 Bradley Road, Trowbridge, Wiltshire · m. William SCULL
b. 1873, Wellhead, Westbury, Wiltshire · d. 1959, Friern Hospital, Friern Barnet Road, London, Middlesex, N11 3BP · m. Catherine Rebecca SNELGROVE
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b. 1875, Westbury, Wiltshire · d. 1956, Trowbridge, Wiltshire · m. Frederick COOMBS
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b. 1876, Westbury, Wiltshire · d. 1959, Westbury & District Hospital, Westbury, Wiltshire · m. Edith Sarah SMITH
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b. 1880, Westbury, Wiltshire · d. 1965, 18 Manor Road, Taunton, Somerset · m. Sidney Herbert POWELL
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b. 1881, Westbury, Wiltshire · d. 1968, Trowbridge, Wiltshire · m. Lilian Maud SUTTON
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b. 1884, Bratton, Wiltshire · d. 1963, Trowbridge & District Hospital, Trowbridge, Wiltshire · m. Charles JONES
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b. 1885, Bratton, Wiltshire · d. 1963, Dilton Marsh, Wiltshire · m. Mary Elizabeth TARGETT
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b. 1888, Bratton, Wiltshire · d. 1975, Bodfari, 288 Southwick Road, North Bradley, Trowbridge, Wiltshire · m. Robert George WILSON
Notes
Left £250 by her sister Annabella BENNETT
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