Eliza Burt Waterman (1840 - 1916)

Born 1840 in High Halden, Kent, England

Ancestors

Died 1916 at about age 76 in Biddenden, Kent, England

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Biography

The birth of Eliza Burt Waterman was registered at Tenterden, Kent, in the second quarter of 1840 and she was christened at High Halden on 27th September that year. Her first name is, of course, her mother's own name. Her second name, Burt, I would suggest may derive from the Burt family of Wittersham. Though I cannot be certain, I think it likely that Eliza Morris was connected with them through Abigail Swadling, who I have posited as her stepmother. (Susannah Swadling of Rolvenden married Robert Burt in 1801.) This is conjecture but seems to me the most likely origin.

Eliza Burt Waterman was with her parents in 1841, 1851 and 1861 (see the Profile of her sister Isabella). Soon after, she went to work as a domestic servant (including periods as a nurse and as a lady's maid) for the Tylden-Patterson family at Dashmonden, Biddenden, Kent. They were landowners who had military connections and also acted as Justices of the Peace for Kent. Eliza worked for them (living in) from before 1871 until her death in 1916. She was not completely isolated from her family because the censuses show that some of her nieces were also in service there:- in 1871, Mary and Lucy Milton and in 1881, Eliza Ann Milton and Jane Goodwin.

Sources

• High Halden baptismal register.

• Census returns.

• Civil registration records