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Elizabeth Hammond
chr.5 Dec 1784 South Bersted, Sussex, England
bur.18 May 1856 Littlehampton, Sussex, England
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m. 11 Nov 1777
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Elizabeth Hammond was baptised on 5th December 1784 at South Bersted in Sussex. She was the daughter of Sarah Hammond, formerly Stocker, and her husband George Hammond, a blacksmith. On 7th January 1811, aged 26, Elizabeth married Charles Willsher at South Bersted. He was from the nearby parish of Eastergate. They do not appear to have had any children. By 1820 they had moved to the town of Littlehampton, where Charles bought a prominent freehold house and shop in the Surrey Street / River Road area between the town centre and the harbour, where he established himself as a baker and corn merchant. Owning property gave him the right to vote, and in the 1820 and 1837 elections he is recorded as having voted for the Whig candidates. Back in South Bersted, Elizabeth’s mother died in 1827 and her father died in 1836. In 1839 Charles was prosecuted by the authorities in Littlehampton for failing to pay his poor and highway rates. The 1841 census finds Elizabeth and Charles living on River Road in Littlehampton, and Charles was described as a baker. Living with them they had Elizabeth’s sister Grace, and Elizabeth’s great-nephew William Butt, who appears to have been the son of Elizabeth’s brother George’s daughter Louisa. There were another two people in the household, one of whom was described as a shop boy, presumably working for Charles. The 1851 census finds Charles and Elizabeth living on Surrey Street in Littlehampton - quite likely at the same house as in 1841 as reports after Charles's death describe him as having run his business at the same premises for nearly forty years, and River Road and Silver Street run into each other. They still had Elizabeth’s great-nephew William Butt living with them, and also had Elizabeth’s niece Sarah Martin living with them, who was Elizabeth sister Sarah’s daughter. They also had a servant living with them described as a journeyman baker, again suggesting that he worked for Charles. Charles died at the age of 71. He was buried at Littlehampton on 25th November 1855. Elizabeth survived him by less than six months. She died in the Westhampnett district, which did not include Littlehampton, but was buried back in Littlehampton on 18th May 1856. She was also 71 when she died. After her death an auction of Charles’s property was held. His house in Littlehampton was described as being in excellent repair and was clearly a substantial building – it was described as having a shop, bakehouse, cellar, parlour, dining room, kitchen, washhouse, drawing room and six chambers (bedrooms). He also owned an eight roomed cottage with half an acre of garden at North Bersted, and had a lease of a piece of land in Littlehampton. References
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