Elizabeth Higgs

  General Notes:

Aged 16 working as house servant for Thomas Belgrove - a butcher and publican - Swan Inn Church Street Swanbourne

  Noted events in her life were:

• Baptism, 12 Jul 1835, Drayton Parslow, Buckinghamshire England.

• Occupation: Various.

• source. & Nigel Goss who notes:
Elizabeth never married the mystery man King, Mary Ann's birth certificate 24th April 1857, shows her name as Mary Ann King in the column where Christian names are only given, with no father given. When she marries John Goss she is Mary Ann Higgs.
I believe but have yet to prove that there was a third husband (all from Bow Brickhill) and they proceed as follows:-
1841 Census Drayton Parslow age 6
Father Robert age 35
Mother Ann age 32
1851 Census Swanbourne age 16
"Home Servant" at Swan Inn Swanbourne
Thomas Belgrave Bucther / Publican
Jane Belgrave (sister) House Keeper
Name: Willm Collins Year of Registration: 1858
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep District: Newport Pagnell County: Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire Volume: 3a Page: 673
Name: Elizth Higgs Year of Registration: 1858
[1858] Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep District: Newport Pagnell County: Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire Volume: 3a Page: 673
Name: Thomas Clarke Year of Registration: 1865
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep District: Newport Pagnell County: Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire Volume: 3a Page: 739
Name: Elizabeth Collins Year of Registration: 1865
[1865] Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep District: Newport Pagnell County: Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire Volume: 3a Page: 739
Elizabeth Clark Year of Registration: 1888
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar District: Newport Pagnell County: Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire Volume: 3a Page: 725
Name: Samuel Chaplin Year of Registration: 1888
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar District: Newport Pagnell County: Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire Volume: 3a Page: 725
Name: Elizabeth Chaplin Death Registration Month/Year: 1918
Age at death (estimated): 82 Registration district: Newport Pagnell Inferred County: Buckinghamshire Volume: 3a Page: 937
John and Mary Ann's children are found living with Elizabeth (Chaplin) in the 1891 census.

• connection. Nigel Goss 's link to me is as follows:

Nigel Goss is the G grandson of John Goss (1856) who married Mary Ann Higgs (1857)
Her father was Unknown King and her mother was Elizabeth Higgs (1835)
Her father was Robert Higgs (1805) & he also had William Higgs (1846)
He had Sarah Higgs (c1877) who married Sidney Stevens (1865). He also married Priscilla Brown (1866) & they had Florence Stevens (1888) who married Frederick Weedon (1890)
His father was Frederick Weedon (1854)
His father was Joseph Weedon (1828)
His father was Joseph Weedon (1796)
His father was Edward Weedon (1758)
His father was John Weedon (1722) & he also had John Weedon (1750) who married Charlotte Stapleton (1797)
They had Mary Weedon (1831) who married George Males (1828)
His father was Samuel Males (1788)
His father was George Males (1752) & he also had Charles Males (1783) who married Elizabeth Huckle (1786)
Her father was John Huckle (1758)
His father was James Huckle (1724)
He had Henry Huckle (1761)
He had James Huckle (1781)
He had Henry Huckle (1811)
He had James Huckle (1842)
He had Eliza Huckle (1862) who married Walter Presland (1861)
They had Arthur Presland (1884) who married Annie Reeves (1890)
Her father was William Reeves (1866)
His father was Ephraim Reeves (1843) & he also had Elizabeth Reeves (1859) who married John Kilcommons (1859)
They had James Kilcommons (1887) who married May Davis (1895)
Her father was Thomas Davis (1868)
His father was George Davis (1846)
His father was Thomas Davis (c1805) & he also had Joseph Davies (1852)
He had G. A. Davies (1894)
He had Colin Davies (1925)
He had me Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

Elizabeth had a relationship with King. (King was born about 1830 in Buckinghamshire England.)

Elizabeth next married William Collins in 1858.³²⁴ (William Collins was born circa 1830 ³²⁴.)

Elizabeth next married Thomas Clarke in 1865. (Thomas Clarke was born in 1840 in Bow Brickhill, Buckinghamshire England and died before 1881 ³²⁴.)

Elizabeth next married Samuel (Sam) Chaplin in 1888.³²⁴ (Samuel (Sam) Chaplin was born in 1848 in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire England.)