Elizabeth Ann Seymour

[West Yorkshire Maggy]

Name - Elizabeth Ann Seymour
Date and place of birth - 14/3/1856 at Copper House, Phillack, Cornwall
Names of parents - Christopher Seymour and Clarinda Richards (nee Williams)
Date and place of baptism - not known
Details of each of his or her marriages - she married Rees Morgan, 16/3/1880 at Neath, Glamorgan
Addresses where they lived -
1861 - Bodriggy Row, Phillack, Cornwall - Scholar
1871 - 59 Giants Grave, Briton Ferry - Scholar (listed as Elizabeth Ann Vigors)
1881 - 104 North Street, Normanby in Middlesbrough - Married
1891 - 103 Wood Street, Eston, North Yorkshire - Married
1901 - 103 Wood Street, Eston, North Yorkshire - Married
1911 - 116 Laing Street, Grangetown - Married
1926 - 116 Laing Street, Eston (address at her death)
Date, place and cause of death - 19/5/1926, Eston, Middlesbrough.
She died of Bronchitis and Heart Failure, aged 70
Date and place of burial / cremation - not known
Details of will / administration of their estate - not known
Memorial inscription - not known

I would love to know why my great grandmother moved from her birth place, Hayle/Phillack, Cornwall to Briton Ferry, near Neath, Glamorgan and then why her and her husband, Rees Morgan moved to the Middlesbrough area.

The other mystery is that my mum always thought that her grandmother was call Elizabeth Ann Vigors.

Sorry just realise I've put this in the wrong place, can one of the mods move it for me please.

[West Yorkshire Maggy]

Thanks, a senior moment, I think :confused:

[Margaret in Burton]

Quote: The other mystery is that my mum always thought that her grandmother was call Elizabeth Ann Vigors.

Have you investigated another marriage?

[Margaret in Burton]

Elizabeth Ann Vigors appears on the 1871 census

RG10; Piece: 5427; Folio: 32; Page: 12

She is in Briton Ferry and was born in Hayle Cornwall in 1856 (too many coincidences I reckon for it not to be the same person)

She is the sister in law of the family
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[West Yorkshire Maggy]

I couldn't find another marriage, but she did have family called Vigors. She was with them in 1871, and her name was given as Vigors, but I'm 99% sure it was the same person. Maybe she was brought up for a while by the Vigors family and maybe that's why she moved from Cornwall?

My grandmothers birth certificate gives her parents as Rees Morgan and Elizabeth Ann Seymour.

[West Yorkshire Maggy]

We posted at the same time Margaret...lol... yes that's the one!

[Margaret in Burton]

I would think she moved to Briton Ferry to live with her sister. Did their parents die?

I'm assuming Catherine Vigors is her sister?

[Margaret in Burton]

Did Elizabeth's husband moved to the north east for work?

[West Yorkshire Maggy]

Catherine was her sister, but her their parents didn't die until 1880 and 1894.

Maybe they did move because of her husbands job. He worked in the steelworks.

[Merry]

Maybe she moved to her sister's home to help look after her sister's children?

[West Yorkshire Maggy]

Maybe she did Merry. I get so frustrated though, because I want to know these things....lol.... and will probably never find out for certain:(