Person:Elizabeth Thompson (204)

Elizabeth Thompson was baptised on 27th October 1776 at Weston in Hertfordshire, daughter of Richard and Ann Thompson.

On 26th November 1803, aged 27, she married George Copps at Weston. They went on to have six children baptised at Weston between 1804 and 1819. George worked as an agricultural labourer. Two of Elizabeth's children died in the 1820s, when they were in their teens.

Elizabeth died at the age of 57, being buried at Weston on 23rd December 1833. George survived her by about fifteen years.

1. ↑ Church of England. Weston Parish Registers, 1539-1932. (Hertford: Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies).

   Baptisms 1776 / Oct[ober] 27 / Elizabeth th[e] Daughter of Richard Tomson & Ann his Wife

   This baptism has been linked to the Elizabeth who married George Copps in 1803 on the basis that it is in the same parish in which she married and around the time implied by the age given when she died, and one of the witnesses to her marriage was a Richard Thompson, which was the name of the father of the Elizabeth baptised in 1776.

2. ↑ Burials register, in Church of England. Weston Parish Registers, 1539-1932. (Hertford: Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies).

   BURIALS in the Parish of Weston in the County of Hertford in the Year 1833
   No.	Name	Abode	When buried	Age	By whom the Ceremony was performed
   341	Elizabeth Cops	Weston	Dec[embe]r 23	57	Revd. Tho[ma]s Blackburne, Rector of Bygrave