Elizabeth Holley

c1782-1867

Elizabeth was baptised on the 7^th July 1782 in Heytesbury, Wiltshire, the daughter of Charles and Melior Fletcher (nee Sevile) who were married on the 8^th August 1771, in Heytesbury. (Surname recorded as Flatcher at time of marriage)

Charles and Melior also had the following children baptised in Heytesbury:

Henry, baptised 7^th June 1772

Sarah, baptised 6^th November 1774

Charles, baptised 13^th December 1778

Elizabeth married George Hunt Holley on the 1^st February 1812 in Alverstoke, Hampshire.

They had the following children:

Harriet Hunt, baptised 19^th December 1812 in Heytesbury

Mary Ann, baptised 15^th November 1816, at St Nicolas, Newbury

William, baptised 25^th October 1819, at St Nicolas, Newbury

George, (aka Charles) baptised 18^th November 1822, at St Nicolas, Newbury

John, baptised 25^th September 1825, at St Nicolas, Newbury

Their son George died aged 2years 6 months, in 1825. He was buried (as Charles) on 2^nd May 1825, at St Nicolas, Newbury.

The 1841 census records George (55) as a Grocer’s Assistant, living in Northbrook Street, Newbury, with Elizabeth (60) and their children, Mary Ann (20) and John (15).

In 1851 George (69) was recorded as a Tallow Chandler, living in Jack of Newbury Yard, Newbury, with Elizabeth (71) and their daughter Mary Ann (33)

By 1852 Elizabeth’s husband George (70) was a Greenwich Pensioner. He died in 1865, aged 82, in Greenwich.

Elizabeth died aged 89 in 1867. She was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 26^th February.

Elizabeth’s widowed daughter Harriet Stevens was laid to rest with Elizabeth on the 2^nd June 1880. Her son-in-law George Purdue, (1^st husband of her daughter Mary Ann), is buried in the grave next to them.

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