I would appreciate some help with Elizabeth Williams Ashley.
I am horribly confused and will probably miss a pertinent fact out, please bear with me.
Elizabeth Williams Ashley is the daughter of Thomas Ashley, a butcher, and Harriet Cole, and baptised 29th April 1832 in Abson, Gloucestershire.
I have her with Thomas and second wife Mary in the 1841 census, together with sisters Eleanor and Sarah. I’ve yet to find her in 1851, 1861 or 1871 census.
In 1861 Thomas and Mary have a grandson with them, together with daughters Selina and Sarah. He is Thomas A Cox, born 1857 in Glamorgan. Birth registration is for Thomas Ashley Cox in April 1857 in Cardiff- MMN is Ashley.
I am also wondering if Eleanor could be Selina? I can find birth regs and baptisms for Selina and Sarah, but nothing for an Eleanor.
A search of the census in Wales gives an Eber Cox together with wife Emma, and son Thomas. There’s a marriage between Heber Cox and an Emma Ashley in December qtr 1852 in Newport. Could Emma be either Eleanor or Elizabeth?
Elizabeth next turns up in Bristol in 1876, marrying a widowed Jacob Long. Her name is given as Elizabeth Williams Ashley, and she says she is a spinster. She and Jacob are together in the 1881 (together with an Elizabeth Cox, cannot read the relationship to head) and 1891 census. Jacob dies In 1892. There’s a possibility for a widowed Elizabeth in the 1901 census in Cardiff, and another possibility in the 1911 census in Oldland Common, Bristol.
If you have stayed with me so far, well done! If anyone could shed any light on this, I’d be really grateful.
