Elizabeth Butt was born on 27 July 1846 in Christchurch, Dorset.
Sundial Cottage, Christchurch (not where she lived, but very pretty, and for sale!)
She was the daughter of William Thomas Butt and Fanny Briant. We know that her mother died when she was just a baby. At the age of four, she was living with her grandmother Elizabeth (her father’s mother), in Mill Lane, Christchurch.
I’m not sure where she was in 1861, but by 1868 she had moved to Parkstone, Dorset. She married a shoemaker, Joseph Samuel Allen, in Canford Magna, Dorset, on 6 April 1868. This village is also known as Great Canford, and is on the River Stour.
The 1871 census shows them living in Back Lane, Parkstone, with the first two of their ten children: Elizabeth Frances Mary (2) and William Joseph (1).
In 1881 they are at 4 Laurel Cottages in Sloop Lane. Elizabeth was listed as “boot maker’s wife” which was then crossed out (they were only supposed to list women by their own occupation, not their husband’s). By now, four more children had been born: Susan Emma (7); Ida (5), Reginald Woodford (4) and Emma Letta (1).
By the time of the 1891 census, Elizabeth was 44. Several of the chidren were now working (William as a gardener, Susan as a draper’s assistant, Ida as a domestic servant, and Reginald as a carpenter’s apprentice). The four youngest were Mary Maud, Floris, Margaret and seven-month-old Evelyn. They had moved to 4 Lilac Cottage in North Road.
They were still at this address in 1901, now with six children still at home, and also Ida’s newborn baby Ewart. Joseph and two of his sons were now working as gardeners.
Elizabeth lived until the age of 95, so we have a record of her in the 1939 Register, with her daughter Margaret, a dressmaker.
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