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Eliza (Best) Woodroffe (1841 - 1883)

Eliza Woodroffe formerly Best
Born in Kingsbury Episcopi, Somerset, England, United Kingdommap
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married 1863 in Paddington, New South Wales, Australiamap
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 42 in Petersham, New South Wales, Australiamap
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Biography

Eliza Best was baptised at Kingsbury Episopi on the 9th of May, 1841.[1] She was the daughter of Joseph Best and Hannah Gillett who were recorded as living at Thorney. The 1851 Census, when the family were living at Drayton, records that she was born at Drayton (the elder children are recorded as born at Kingsbury).

Eliza came to Australia with her elder sister Grace as an assisted immigrant on the Palmyra, arriving 27th May, 1859.[2]

She married Stephen Woodroffe at Paddington, NSW in 1863.[3]

She passed away at Petersham, NSW, on the 7th of June, 1883 at the age of 42.[4][5][6]

Sources

  1. Ancestry.com. Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914.
  2. Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896.
  3. NSW BDM: Marriage Registration 1172/1863
    WOODROFFE STEPHEN, BEST ELIZA, PADDINGTON
  4. NSW BDM: Death Registration 2967/1883
    WOODROFFE ELIZA, father: JOSEPH, mother: HANNAH, district PETERSHAM
  5. Family Notices (1883, June 23). The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1871 - 1912), p. 1194. Retrieved July 11, 2017, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article162081110
    WOODROFFE.— June 7, at Denison-road, Petersham, Eliza, beloved wife of Stephen Woodrolfe, aged 42 years.
  6. Family Notices (1883, June 18). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 1. Retrieved July 11, 2017, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13537163
    WOODROFFE.—June 7, at Denison-road, Petersham, Eliza, beloved wife of Stephen Woodroffe, aged 42 years. Thy will be done.
  • Maternal and paternal relationships have both been confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between B.R. and Greg Watson, his 3rd cousin. Their most-recent common ancestors are Joseph Best and Hannah Gillett, the great great grandparents of both B.R. and Greg Watson. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 4th-6th cousin, based on sharing 50 cM across 5 segments.




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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Eliza by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Eliza:

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