Thomas Morfee and Elizabeth Pankhurst

[trish1120]

Yes, I saw that Elizabeth Pankhurst too on FreeREG.
But Familysearch has a Burial of a EP, 30 September 1827, Burwash, age 15, which may be the same Elizabeth.

Trish

[sillgen]

I wonder if the EM who was buried in 1846 died of a complication of childbirth as there is a baptism for John, son of Thomas Morfee, Mariner, and Elizabeth baptised in June 1846.  An earlier baptism for Elizabeth Ellen in 1841 shows their address as Hill Street.  I expect you have all this but the Sussex Family History site has good records for members and it is not expensive to join.

[Geordie Mag]

Thanks for the info about the death of an Elizabeth Pankhurst. I expect that is the Elizabeth whose birth I found. I keep an eye open for deaths in the first years of life, (there was a time when I could trot out statistics about the percentage of children who failed to make it to the age of 5) but she had got through the early hurdles. Good job I haven't constructed an entire family tree around her.
Yes, thanks, I have got the info about the Morfees' various addresses. In fact, what re-triggered my interest in the Morfees was walking past a sign pointing to Gloucester Cottages last month, when on a fleeting visit to Hastings for a family funeral. I remembered that that was a place they lived.
I too wondered whether Elizabeth died in childbirth. Interestingly, John in census returns is variously mentioned  as "dumb" and "crippled" which made me suspect a difficult birth leading to death for the mother and a handicapped child. Difficult to work out what was wrong with him from terse census returns.