My cousin and I have been investigating a link that has emerged between Enos Crummett (1828-1886) and Eliza Jane Locke (c1865-1951). We believe they are father and daughter but are finding it difficult to get conclusive proof.
Eliza Jane Locke was born in Lambeth c.1865 (we believe her birthday was at the end of December). We haven’t been able to find her birth or in the 1871 census.
On 16th Aug 1881 she married James Norman Harrison at Pimlico St Peter. She gave her address as Wallis’s Yard, Westminster and her father, William Locke, a mariner.
They had 8 children between 1882 and 1897, the first in Cork, Ireland and the others in London. She registered 7 of the children and gave her name as Eliza Jane Harrison formerly Locke. However, her husband registered their 3rd child, Norman, born 1885, and gave the mother’s name as Eliza Jane Harrison formerly Crummett.
When she married her second husband in 1905 she gave her father’s name as Enos Locke (deceased).
After her husband died in 1901, she remarried to Arthur Edward Addison in 1905, had 3 further children and then emigrated to New Zealand with her new husband taking the Addison children but no Harrison children with her. She died in 1951.
So we have done a timeline to compare Enos Crummett’s life with that of Eliza Jane Locke and the only cross over is that Enos Crummett was living at 14 Wallis’s Yard, Westminster from 1878-1881, the same address Eliza Jane gave at her marriage in 1881.
Eno’s was born in Attleborough, Norfolk in 1828, he was imprisoned in Norwich in 1853 for larceny, spent a month in Southwark Workhouse in 1858, married twice – Sarah Ann Blatchley (1863) and Mary Ann Brien (1875). He died in 1886 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery.
Can anyone find either Enos Crummett or Eliza Jane Locke in 1871 or Eliza Jane Locke in 1881 (possibly she was working as a servant at182 Milkwood Road, Lambeth)? Has anyone any ideas we could investigate further or perhaps we have gone as far as we can with this one.
Sorry the post is a bit long but wanted to include as much as possible so as not to waste time looking for already known information. Thank you.
