Elizabeth (Briggs) Trevor (abt. 1769 - 1853)

Born about 1769 in Great Linford, Buckinghamshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Trevor (Humphreys) Trevor LLD. — married 31 May 1792 in St. Oswald, Chester, Cheshire

Descendants

Died 28 Apr 1853 at about age 84 in Llanvaelog, Anglesey, Wales

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Biography

Elizabeth was born about 1769 one of the eight children of the Reverend John Briggs, Rector of Calverton, and later Chancellor of Chester, and his wife Judith Porteus daughter of the Reverend Robert Porteus, Rector of Cockayne Hatley.

Elizabeth married the young Reverend Thomas Trevor Trevor in the Cathedral at Chester on 7 May 1792. They resided for the first few years of their marriage at Whittington, Shropshire where the eldest two of their thirteen children were born, and then later at the Vicarage of Eastham whilst they also had the Rectory of West Kirby and her husband was a Prebendary of Chester. In the organisation of church life, this meant her husband had a 'living' and income generated from managing church farmlands, a salary from the vicarage, and a salary for administrative duties with the Chester Cathedral and were not wealthy but also not exceedingly poor.

Elizabeth lived a long life, passing away aged eighty four, with only one child out living her.

She lost the first of her children, her six month old daughter Maria in 1798. In 1801 her third son, Salusbury died aged 5. In 1810 her eldest son Thomas died aged 18, and in 1817 her last child and youngest daughter died aged 9 months. A year later, having survived joining the Navy and being involved in naval warfare on HMS Severn in Algeria, her fourth son, 18 year old Edward died while home on leave.

Almost ten years passed with good news and sons marrying, and then began a sequence of deaths that took all but two of her remaining children and her husband in a 3 year period. There are no records indicating cause of death, but with so many family members dying within months of each other, tuberculosis would be high on the suspected causes list.

The horror stretch of sorrow commenced in November 1826 when her 20 year old daughter Frances Harriet died. Just two months later daughter Mary Elizabeth died aged 18, three weeks later her husband the Reverend Thomas Trevor Trevor also died and a mere 3 weeks later her eldest daughter, 28 year old Mildred Judith also died. A little more than eighteen months passed and another daughter17 year old Laura died in October 1829, and eight months later her last remaining daughter, Catherine Isabella also died aged 18.

Elizabeth had vacated the Vicarage at Eastham following the death of her husband, and established a household at 17 Nicholas St, Chester.

In 1841 her 5th son, and one of only two children remaining, Captain Robert Salusbury Trevor, was killed in Afghanistan. His wife Mary and her seven children returned from India and took up residence in the house at 17 Nicholas St that she owned, and she appears to have moved in with her last remaining son and his family.

She was residing at the house of the Reverend John William Trevor, in the Rectory at Llanvaelog, Anglesey, when she died aged 84 in 1853.

Buried 4 May 1853. Llanfaelog, Anglesey, Wales. ^[1]

Residence 1851 Beaumaris, Beaumaris, Anglesey, Wales. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S1506169755 Archives Wales; Wales; Anglesey Baptisms, Marriages and Burials Ancestry Record 62098 #92251
2. ↑ Source: #S1506168229 Class: HO107; Piece: 2517; Folio: 218; Page: 38; GSU roll: 104291 Ancestry Record 8861 #16302034

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