Keziah French (Austen) Webb (1822 - 1885)

Born 10 Oct 1822 in Lympne, Kent, England

Wife of Bayley Pilcher — married 1841 in Kent, England

Wife of Robert Webb — married 1856 in Plainsfield, Illinois, USA

Descendants

Died 30 May 1885 at age 62 in Plainsfield, Illinois, USA

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Biography

Keziah was born in 1822. Keziah Austen ... She passed away in 1885.

Keziah French Austen, daughter of Robert and Anne Austen, was baptized in Lympne, Kent, England on 15 Dec 1822^[1]

She was living in Lympne in the 1841 census

1841 Census

Place: Lympne, Kent, England

Residence Note: Oat Hill Farm

Household Role Sex Age Birthplace

Robart Austin M 50-54 Kent

Ann Austin F 50-54 Kent

Kerne Austin F 20-24 Kent

Jane Austin F 20-24 Kent

Kesiah Austin F 15-19 Kent

Richard Austin M 13 Kent

Jemimah Austin F 7 Kent

William Hawkins M 20-24 Kent

James Brooks M 30-34 Kent^[2]

Keziah Austen (age 20), daughter of Robert Austen, married Bailey Pilcher, son of Thomas Pilcher, at St. Stephen, Lympne, Kent, England on 16 Nov 1841^[3]

1851 census - Folkestone, Kent, England

Household Role Sex Age Birthplace

Bayley Pilcher Head M 29 Harrisham, Kent

Kezia Pilcher Wife F 28 Lympne, Kent

Frederick Pilcher Son M 9 Lympne, Kent

Bayley Pilcher Son M 3 Hawkinge, Kent

Robert Pilcher Son M 1 Hawkinge, Kent

Eliza Marsh Servant F 12 Hawkinge, Kent

Sarah Hubbard Servant F 15 N K

Thomas Kennett Servant M 20 Postling, Kent

William Sharp Servant M 15 Folkestone Parish, Kent^[4]

Sometime between 1851 (census in England) and 1853 (when Bailey Pilcher died in Illinois) she, with her husband and children, emigrated to Plainfield, Illinois, USA.

After her husband, Bailey Pilcher, died, she married Robert Webb.

In 1856, Kizia F Pilcher married Robert Webb in Will, Illinois, United States.

1860 census Plainfield, Will, Illinois, United States

Household Role Sex Age Birthplace

Robert Webb M 53 England

Reziah Webb F 38 England

Rosea ( Keren) Pilcher F 15 England

Baily Pilcher M 13 England

Robert Pilcher M 11 England

Susan Pilcher F 6 Ill

John Pilcher (sic) M 1 Ill^[5]

1870 census Illinois, United States

Household Role Sex Age Birthplace

Robert Webb M 64 England

Kezia Webb F 48 England

John Webb M 12 Illinois

William Webb M 9 Illinois

Fannie Webb F 7 Illinois

Susan Pitcher F 16 Illinois^[6]

1870 census Plainfield, Will, Illinois, United States

Household Role Sex Age Birthplace

Kezia Webb Self F 58 England

William Webb Son M 19 Illinois, United States

Fanny Webb Daughter F 17 Illinois, United States^[7]

She died in 1885, and is buried in the Planfield Cemetary, Plainfield, Will, Illinois, United States. The gravestone gives her birth and death dates

Kezia F Webb

formerly wife of

B. Pilcher

Born Oct 10 1822

Died May 30 1885^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JM3W-154 : 6 December 2014, Keziah French Austen, 15 Dec 1822); citing Lympne, Kent, England, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 1,786,627.
2. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1841," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQ2Q-XQH : 4 September 2017), Kesiah Austin in household of Robart Austin, Lympne, Kent, England; from "1841 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO HO 107, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.
3. ↑ "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NNDD-HH7 : 10 December 2014), Bailey Pilcher and Keziah French Austin, 16 Nov 1841; citing St. Stephen, Lympne, Kent, England, reference item 3 n15, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 1,786,627.
4. ↑ : "England and Wales Census, 1851," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SG1X-B2X : 29 July 2017), Kezia Pilcher in household of Bayley Pilcher, Folkestone, Kent, England; citing Folkestone, Kent, England, p. 19, from "1851 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO HO 107, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXCQ-HGG : 28 July 2017), Reziah Webb in entry for Robert Webb, 1860.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6W1-HPD : 12 April 2016), Kezia Webb in household of Robert Webb, Illinois, United States; citing p. 16, family 117, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 545,791.
7. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX2S-9F5 : 14 August 2017), Kezia Webb, Plainfield, Will, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district ED 210, sheet 405D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0260; FHL microfilm 1,254,260.
8. ↑ Find A Grave Keziah French Austin Pilcher

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Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Roger Windsor for creating Austen-642 on 10 Oct 13.