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Elizabeth Lincoln (née Giddings
Elizabeth Lincoln (née Giddings).

Elizabeth Giddings
1831-1920

Elizabeth Giddings was the fourth of the eight children of Daniel Watson Giddings and his wife Sarah Jane Franks of March, Cambridgeshire.

In 1852, at the age of 21, Elizabeth illegitimately gave birth to her first child, a daughter whom she named Sarah Elizabeth.

Elizabeth appears on the 1861 census at Burrow Moor, March as an Agricultural Labourer and by 1862, Elizabeth has married to Charles Lincoln (originally from Potton, Bedfordshire) and the couple moved to Little Downham Fen and were living at the Railway House on Main Drove.

By the time of the 1871 Little Downham Census, the couple are joined by their daughter Jane, aged 7 and by the time of the 1881 Little Downham Census, Charles and Elizabeth are alone again at the Railway House. At this time and also at a railway house nearby, lived her daughter Sarah, with her husband James Martin and their family.

After Charles pre-deceased her in 1887, she moved to Main Street, Little Downham and by the time of the 1891 census she is listed as a 58 year old widow, working as a Laundress. Ten years later, still on Main Street, she's noted as a Charwoman (a cleaning lady - 'char' derived from 'chore').

Elizabeth was a Baptist.


Further Details

Born:
1831, March, Cambridgeshire.

Baptised:
13th August 1831 at the General Baptist Church, March, Cambridgeshire.

Married:

Children:

Died:
17th July 1920 at Tower House, Cambridge Road, Ely, aged 88 years. She died of a combination of Mitral Disease and Syncope.

Buried:
Little Downham cemetery, Grave number L70.