weller-brighton

[banoffeebabs]

Nope, on this cert. the fathers name is William Gazzard-brush maker.I think his father was Eli-am still looking.
Have checked and Elisabeth Gazzard was one of 13 children-still can't trace any others on the censuses.

Babs.

[PaulineJ]

What records led you to the deduction that elizabeth was one of 13 kids.?

Who, when &where are the others supposed to be?

Pauline

[Roy G]

Hi Babs
We Rootschatters would love to help you further, so can I quickly get back to basics and go over what you have so far on the Gaz(z)ard front.

Elizabeth, the daughter of William Gaz(z)ard was born in Woolwich in 1884 and married Albert E Weller in Brighton in 1908.  She would therefore have been 24 when she married.  3 questions
[1] What was her occupation when she married?
[2] Was there any indication that William Gaz(z)ard was alive or dead at the time of the marriage?
[3] Were there any other Gaz(z)ards as witnesses on that marriage cert?

You have also told us that she was probably one of 13 children, but have given us no indication of any of the names (especially the more unusual ones) or the ages of her siblings, nor any idea whether she was amongst the eldest or youngest.  Nor do we know when she came to Brighton or what brought her there. 

Observations
She would not have been on the 1881 census, but her father should have been (either married or unmarried)  If married, it is possible that there were elder siblings on that census too.  Think you need to apply for a copy of her birth cert from 1884 if nothing else, to see her father's occupation then, the family address and her mother's maiden name.

That info should then help you find the parents with Elizabeth on the 1891 census and from there you can track back to 1881 and forward to 1901.
There appear to be no William Gaz(z)ards as brushmakers on the 1901, so I suspect the father had another profession earlier.   

Roy G

[Roy G]

Three post scripts

The 1901 census has only one Gazard in Brighton and that was a 16 year old domestic servant (b1884) called Edna.  An Edna Gazzard was born in Essex in 1884, so this is quite possibly just a coincidence that your Elizabeth was born close by in Woolwich in the same year rather than an ancestor that sought a name change. 

There is also an Essex marriage between a possible candidate to your ancestor's father William Gazzard and a Sarah Ann Cranmer in 1865.  Would the Cranmer name have come up in any other research that you have done?

Should the father William have been dead, there was also a marriage of a Sarah Ann Gazzard from Essex to a Frederick William Fuller, in Brighton in 1896.  Perhaps you could not find the 12 siblings because that number also included half brothers & sisters?

Just a few thoughts.

Roy G