The Lieflock Line, Wootton Rivers and Tangley Trees

Notes by Graham Lovelock:

I believe I first found George and Eliza in 1851, as so many of the 1841 films are really hard to decipher. According to my records they were at West Grafton, and their ages were given as 34 and 32, hence the deduction that Eliza was born in 1819 (possibly 1818). The piece in parentheses appears in my database, but could never have been captured in a file constructed on Lieflock Line lines.

I subsequently found them at West Grafton in 1861 (ages 44 and 33), in 1871 (ages 52 and 41), and in Great Bedwyn in 1881 (ages 64 and 51). By 1891 George had died and Eliza was recorded back at West Grafton aged 59. She gave her place of birth as Great Bedwyn in 1851 and 1881, but West Grafton on the other three occasions.

When the 1841 data was eventually added to the record it did help a little: the couple were at West Grafton living with Eliza's parents, which is how we know her mother's name was Ann. Eliza's age was recorded as 23 (not rounded up or down).

Some considerable time later I ventured into the East Grafton PRs, hunting down some completely separate Lovelocks, and that is when I discovered the burial of Eliza No 1 in 1844 and the marriage to Eliza No 2 in 1846. It seemed most unlikely, but there it was. Eliza No 2 was 18 at the time of the marriage, so I have probably mis-read the 1851 entry. That seems odd, as with George being 34, I had an example of the Enumerator's rendering of a 3. Perhaps someone will go back and check this some time.

James Concerning the illegitimate children living with George and Eliza (in the 1871 census record), I believe that Ann(ie) is the mother of William - there is a baptism record for him at East Grafton as follows: 1871 Jun 25 William son of Ann Lovelock (single woman)

Graham email 5 Nov 2004: I've not been able to find any information to help place her. There does not seem to be a baptism anywhere, although she does appear in the GRO data (1Q of 1865). Presumably she was not another daughter of Ann's, as Ann would only have been 14 in 1865, so she must be the daughter of one of Ann's older sisters Elizabeth and Charlotte.

I can't see any mention of her in 1881, but may have missed it. There is no death in our GRO data, but there is a marriage of a Sarah Ann in the Hungerford RD in 2Q of 1886.

James 19-Jan-07 Concerning the second illegitimate child living with George & Eliza in 1871, there is a FreeBMD birth record as follows: Births Mar 1865: Lovelock,Sarah Ann, Hungerford, 2c, 262 However, It's not clear who was the mother of Sarah Ann.