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1861 England Census
about Elizabeth Sowerby Name: Elizabeth Sowerby
Age: 4
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1857
Relation: Daughter
Father's Name: James Sowerby
Mother's Name: Elizabeth Sowerby
Gender: Female
Where born: Caldbeck, Cumberland, England

Civil parish: Sebergham Low
County/Island: Cumberland
Country: England

Registration district: Wigton
Sub-registration district: Caldbeck
ED, institution, or vessel: 12
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 44
Piece: 3931
Folio: 36
Page Number: 10
Household Members: Name Age
James Sowerby 37
Elizabeth Sowerby 33
Joseph Sowerby 12
Robert Sowerby 10
Thomas Sowerby 8
Mary Ann Sowerby 6
Elizabeth Sowerby 4
Sarah Sowerby 2
James Sowerby 2 Months
John Patinson 73

But father is an ag lab. (Far cry from gentleman!)

I am trying to trace my great grandmother. According to her marriage certificate, her name was Elizabeth Julia Rose Dottie Sowerby, and was born c1857. Her father is listed as James Sowerby, deceased, Gentleman. The marriage to George Muras Walton took place in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1878. After the wedding, she is known as Rose Walton, and the census records of 1881-1911 state she was born in Newcastle.

There are no census records which link an Elizabeth Sowerby to Newcastle before the marriage, or any using her other names. I have checked with Newcatle Registry Office and there is no listing of her birth. I thought there was a possible match with an Elizabeth Sowerby in Caldbeck, Westmorland. The registry office in Wigton has nothing to match. I am waiting for response from Whitehaven which is checking parish records in the area.

Basically I need to find a James Sowerby who fathered an Elizabeth Sowerby c1857. Maybe all the names she uses in the marriage certificate do appear on her birth certificate, but I am not certain.

Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions on this?

Regards

Philip Walton