I have been told by an elderly relative that my 2xGreat Grandmother, Eliza Lyons, left Cambridgeshire to be a nurse to King Alfonso of Spain. She would have left after 1861 and probably before 1871. Can anyone suggest how I might be able to follow this up?
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London - MOON DARVELL CRAGGS COLE DUTFIELD SAMSON WALLIS THOMPSON MURRAY TREGANOWAN BENDEL POTTERTON North Yorkshire - DOBSON ALLANSON COOPER CLARK WARDLE STEEL FRANK Dorset - KING (Blandford, Dorchester) KING PERCY (Sturminster Newton) Cambridgeshire - LYON SIMPSON WINTER TABRAHAM HAWKES FYNCKELL Norfolk - PRESS ROUSE STEWARD Warwickshire - RUSSELL (Coventry) Suffolk - PRESS WHYTE Berkshire (Shrivenham) & Wiltshire - REEVES CARVEY MOXHAM TRINDER Somerset (Porlock) HUISH
Alfonso XII was born 1857 and Alfonso XIII was born 1881.
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Southern or Southan [Hereford , Monmouthshire & Glos], Jenkins, Meredith and Morgan [Monmouthshire and Glos.], Murrill, Damary, Damry, Ray, Lawrence [all Middx. & London], Nethway from Kenn or Yatton. Also Riley and Lyons in South Africa. Any census information included in this post is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Thank you for the information. I think she was more likely to have been nurse to Alfonso XII as she left her only daughter with relatives. Her daughter would have been 20 in 1881.
Ceci
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London - MOON DARVELL CRAGGS COLE DUTFIELD SAMSON WALLIS THOMPSON MURRAY TREGANOWAN BENDEL POTTERTON North Yorkshire - DOBSON ALLANSON COOPER CLARK WARDLE STEEL FRANK Dorset - KING (Blandford, Dorchester) KING PERCY (Sturminster Newton) Cambridgeshire - LYON SIMPSON WINTER TABRAHAM HAWKES FYNCKELL Norfolk - PRESS ROUSE STEWARD Warwickshire - RUSSELL (Coventry) Suffolk - PRESS WHYTE Berkshire (Shrivenham) & Wiltshire - REEVES CARVEY MOXHAM TRINDER Somerset (Porlock) HUISH