Eliza Cross 1828-1886

1830. Eliza Cross was baptised to single parent Maria Cross on 16/5/1830 in Winterbourne Whitechurch: her brother Henry was baptised on the same day, so Eliza was likely born 1-2 years earlier, as the 1841C sugests . A sister Anne was baptised 5/1/1834 to single parent Maria Cross . could not find baptisms for Mary ~1823, nor for Peter ~1845 - Ancestry, Dorset records - though there is an 1824 baptism for a Mary Ann to Thomas & Maria Cross in 1824 in WW and the 1851C does give Maria as a widow . A Thomas Cross is buried April 1837, stated age 61, in Hazelbury Bryan, about 5 miles NW of WW- could just be the father??

1841C Eliza Cross , 13, , living Whitechurch, Winterbourne Whitechurch, Blandford Union with her mother and 3 siblings

1847. Eliza Cross marries George Blanchard Blandford Jun 1847

1853. Elizabeth Blanchard was born Blandford Mar 1853 to George & Eliza

1861C Eliza Blanchard, 33, is living East St Lane Blanchford Dorset with her husband and 6 children, and her mother, Maria Cross, 63, also b. Kingston

1871C. Eliza Blanchard, 43 ,b. Kingston , a laundress, is living Abbey Cottage Holdenhurst, with her husband and 7 children.

1878. George James Blanchard dies Christchurch Dec 1878, stated age 51

1881C. Eliza Blanchard, 53, widow, laundress, is living Abbey Cottage , 2 Holdenhurst, Christchurch, with 5 children, a son in law, 2 grandchildren and her 86 year old mother

1886 Eliza Blanchard dies Christchurch Jun 1886, stated age 58.

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Maria Cross ~1797-1881

Going back a generation to Eliza's single mother Maria Cross. She is still alive in 1851, by then having had 5 children, Mary,Eliza, Henry, Anne, Peter

1851C Maria Cross, widow, at 33 Bryanston Street, Blandford . So Eliza has a sister, Ann, 1833-5

1861C. See above - with her married daughter, Eliza Blanchard

1871C. Maria Cross, pauper, a lodger, Bryanston Street, Blandford

1881C. See above - with her widowied daughter Eliza Blanchard

1881. Maria Cross dies Christchurch Jun 1881, stated age 85.