Born in East Ward, Westmorland in 1842, Elizabeth was the eighth of 11 children of Willis Coates and Ann Heseltine. In 1861, she married Charles Fairless in Salford, now a suburb of Manchester but, in "The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844", Fredrich Engels described Salford as "really one large working-class quarter ... [a] very unhealthy, dirty and dilapidated district. They had four daughters and a son with births registered in Pendleton. From before the 1891 census until he died in 1906, Charles's occupation was listed as laundryman. Elizabeth died 4Q1911 in the Manchester suburb of Chorlton.
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