See also

Eliza COE (1843-1916)

Name: Eliza COE
Sex: Female
Father: James COE (1814-1875)
Mother: Maria WREN (1812-1852)

Individual Events and Attributes

Birth 26 May 1843 Woolwich1
Baptism 25 Jun 1843 (age 0) St Mary Magdalene Woolwich1
Census 1861 (age 18) London
10 Bath Street, off Christchurch Newgate St
Eliza was a children's maid working for the Garston family and taking care of their three young children aged 4, 3 and 1.
Occupation Domestic Service; Assorted addresses
Census 1871 (age 27-28) Lee, Kent
Turner Terrace
In 1871 she was still in service working as a cook for Charles Barry and his wife.
Census 1881 (age 37-38) Orpington, Kent
East Hall
Eliza was now a cook in the even more sumptuous household of a retired wine merchant Daniel and Emily Birkett and their brother-in-law Henry Soames plus five other servants.
Census 1891 (age 47-48) St. George Hanover Square
12 Hill Street
In 1891, still unmarried at the age of 47, she was working as a cook - and heading up a staff of six -for a wealthy elderly widow Julia Washington Hibbert.
Census 1901 (age 57-58) Paddington, London
66 Talbot Road
By 1901, however, Eliza had joined forces with her sister Margaret in running a boarding house in Paddington. At the time of the census they had one servant interestingly called Emeline Coe, aged 18, born in Glamorganshire, and five boarders.
Census 1911 (age 67-68) West Kensington, London
1 Horbury Crescent
Eliza and Margaret were still together in 1911, living in an "apartment house" at the home of a banker's family, the Maclennans.
Death 1916 (age 72-73) Paddington 1a 82

Individual Note

Sources

1"Eliza Coe Baptism, 26 May 1843, St Mary Magdalene Woolwich".