Tuesday 7 July 2020

Great x3 Aunt Eliza Brealey

My Great x3 Aunt Eliza (1859 - 1860) was the younger sister of my Great Great Grandmother Emma Mutters (nee Brealey) (1855 - 1924).


Eliza was born around February 1859 in Holy Trinity, Exeter, Devon, to George Brealey (about 28), a carpenter, and Joanna Brealy (nee Sampson) (about 39), a former servant and housewife.

Eliza was baptised on 10th April 1859 in Holy Trinity, Exeter.

Eliza was the youngest of three children (two daughters and one son):

  • Emma  1855 - 1924  (68 or 69 years old)
  • Charles  1857 - 1923  (65 years old)
  • Eliza  1859 - 1860  (13 months old)

In Jan/Feb/Mar 1860, Eliza sadly passed away, aged only thirteen months, in Exeter. Eliza was buried on 25th March 1860 in Holy Trinity, Exeter.

Eliza's record of burial gives at age at death in March 1860 as thirteen months old. If this is correct, that puts her birth around February 1859; however, her birth wasn't registered until Apr/May/Jun 1859. As today, parents had forty-two days to register the birth of a child; it might have been Eliza's birth was registered in the early April, if she was born in the February.

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