Ella
Blanche
Birkbeck
formerly Lightbourn
Born about in Nassau, Bahamas
Ancestors 
Daughter of Paul Samuel Lightbourn
and Adeline (Saunders) Lightbourn
Sister of
Alice Lightbourn, Charles Lightbourn [half], Rebecca Mary (Lightbourne) Darrell [half], Sarah Elizabeth (Lightbourn) Sumner, James Horne Lightbourne, Julia Octavia Lightbourn, Arthur Francis (Lightbourn) Lightbourne, Harriet (Lightbourn) Cash and Roger Moore Lightbourn
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 78
in Louth, Lincolnshire, England
Profile last modified
| Created 5 Dec 2016
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Ella (Lightbourn) Birkbeck is part of a Bahamian family.
Biography
Ella Blanche Lightbourn was born in Nassau, Bahamas in 1865 to Paul Samuel Lightbourn and Adeline Saunders Lightbourn.
She married, in 1894, the Reverend Joseph Birkbeck, Wesleyan Methodist minister, at Liskeard, Cornwall, England. The couple had five children: Joseph Lightbourn, Florence, Percy Sumner, Paul William, and Francis Herbert Birkbeck.
Ella Blanche Lightbourn Birkbeck was a World War II civilian casualty killed by enemy action: "Birkbeck, Ella Blanche, age 78; of Barkston, Cornwall Terrace, Woodhall Spa. Daughter of the late Paul and Adelaide [Adeline] Lightbourn, of Nassau, Bahamas..; widow of the Revd. Joseph Birkbeck. Injured 18 August 1943 at Woodhall Spa; died 25 August 1943, at Louth and District Hospital." Her name is included on the Caribbean Roll of Honour, Caribbean Civilian War Dead, World War II.
Sources
1911 England Census for Ella Blanche L Birkbeck Hampshire, Andover, 05.
UK, WWII Civilian Deaths, 1939-1945 for Ella Blanche Birkbeck, England, Kent (Elham RD) - London (Westminster), Municipal Borough of Louth, Lincolnshire.
England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007, Louth, Lincolnshire, England, Vol 7a, page 514.
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995, 1945, Aaron-Byworth, Birkbeck, Ella Blanche.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ella by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' 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 Ella:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ella by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' 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 Ella:
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~1.56%
~3.12%
Kris Sjostrom 
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A936004 [compare]
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