Elizabeth Howlett
1856-1916
Elizabeth was the only daughter of Thomas Howlett and his wife Caroline Clark of Mildenhall.
Elizabeth's father died aged 23 after a 9 month illness in 1858, leaving her young mother to look after her alone until she re-married to Robert Coe.
Elizabeth married James Gilbert - a farmer of Littleport in 1878 and by the time of the 1881 Census, they were living at the Gilbert farm at Burnt Chimney Drove, Littleport, farming 55 acres and employing one man and one boy.
James and Elizabeth had nine children although two of these did not survive into adulthood.
Elizabeth pre-deceased her husband by just under four months and her mother by about 11 months.
Further Details
Born:
3rd March 1856 at Kenny Hill near Mildenhall, Suffolk.
Married:
- James Gilbert (1848-1916) on 15th February 1878 at Littleport Church in Cambridgeshire.
Children
- Caroline Gilbert (1878-?) married Arthur John Oakes.
- Mary Gilbert (1879-?) married Jabez Arthur Peacock (1875-?).
- William Gilbert (1880-?) married Selina Crag (1880-?).
- Hannah Gilbert (1881-1883)
- Ellen Gilbert (1883-?) married Frank Gotobed.
- Clara Emma Gilbert (1884-1973) married Alfred Newman (1883-1969)
- Florence Emily Gilbert (1887)
- Elizabeth Emily Gilbert (1888-?) married James Gibson.
- Amelia Gilbert (1892-?) married Nathaniel Neale.
Died:
19th August 1916, aged 59 years, at Littleport, Cambridgeshire.
Buried:
22nd August 1916, with her husband James and grandson Willie Gilbert in Littleport cemetery, Cambridgeshire.