Eliza Harper

  Noted events in her life were:

• source. Kerry Gamble (nee Botten)

• fact. Eliza's Birth Registration - Vol 5c Page 144. 1871 Census Shows - Eliza HARPER (Visitor - age 12) with her brother Silas (Farm Servant Indoor - age 14) at Tywardreath with the HORE family. There is a 9 month old child Minniel HORE who is noted as having Parents Away. RG10 / 2259 33 3 13 Eliza HARPER / William REED Marriage Registration - Vol 8e Page 964. Marriage certificate shows Eliza was aged 19 and William was aged 24. The marriage was witnesses by Thomas SHUTTLEWORTH and Stephen HARPER, Eliza's father, Stephen put his mark as X. (Information supplied by Valerie Harper who owns the original certificate) 1881 Census - Shows Eliza [Surname spelt REID] (age 22) living at 30 South Row, Roose, Barrow In Furness with her husband William (Iron Miner - age 29) and their children Alfred (age 4), Amelia ( age 2) and William H. (age 4 months). RG11 4293 / 20 34 1891 Census Shows - Eliza (age 31) living at 25 South Row, Roose, Barrow In Furness with her husband William REED (Iron Ore Miner - age 38) and their children Alfred (Iron Ore Miner - age 14), Amelia (Scholar - age 12), William H (age 10), Stephen (age 8), John (age 6), Ernest (age 4) and Silis (age 2). RG12 / 3488 101 8. 1901 Census - Shows Eliza REED (age 42) living at 37 South Row, Roose, Barrow In Furness, Lancashire, England with her husband William (Iron Ore Miner - age 48) and their children William Hy (Labourer Shipyard - age 20), Stephen (Labourer Shipyard - age 18), John (Iron Ore Miner - age 16), Ernest (age 14), Silas (age 12), Mary (age 9), James (age 7), Daisy (age 4) and Frederick (age 2). RG13 4015 / 115 7

Eliza married William Reed, son of Nicholas Reed and Amelia Bawden, on 10 Feb 1877 in Ulverston, Lancashire England. (William Reed was born on 17 Jan 1852 in Helston, Cornwall England and died on 10 Dec 1929 in Barrow-In-Furness, Lancashire, Cumbria England ³⁷⁶.)