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Facts and Events
Elizabeth Tickle's origins have yet to be established for certain. Her first confirmed sighting is on 27th March 1720 when she was married at Stotfold in Bedfordshire to a labourer named John Collop. They appear to have had six children baptised at Stotfold between 1721 and 1738, although the eldest died when only a baby.
In 1730 Elizabeth appears to have been the victim of an assault; a Daniel Brittain said he wanted to kiss her and when she rejected his advances Brittain assaulted her.
Elizabeth's husband John appears to have died in either 1749 or 1756; the burial register gives insufficient information to say which is him. Either way Elizabeth outlived him by several years.
Elizabeth's first known grandchild was born in 1743 and she appears to have had at least fifteen grandchildren born in her lifetime, although some of them died young. Elizabeth's daughter Mary died shortly after giving birth to twins in 1766, aged 28.
Elizabeth was buried on 24th November 1769 at Stotfold.
References
- Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service. Transcript of Stotfold Parish Registers.
ch. 7 Mar 1696/7: Eliz d Tho & Ann Tickle
Whilst this baptism seems reasonably plausible, firm evidence proving it is the same Elizabeth Tickle who married John Collop has yet to be found.
- ↑ Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service. Transcript of Stotfold Parish Registers.
bur. 24 Nov 1769: Eliz Collip, widow
- Bedfordshire Quarter Sessions Rolls
QSR1730/67, 15 Apr 1730.
Bedd. The Examination of Elizabeth the Wife of John Collett Labourer of Stotfold in the s[ai]d County* taken upon Oath before me one of his Majestys Justices of the Peace for the said County this 15th Day of April 1730.
This Examinant being sworn saith that on Monday last one Daniel Brittain of Stotfold afores[ai]d Carpenter offer[e]d to kiss her the s[ai]d Elizabeth Collett in the House of Edw[ar]d Smith of the Parish afores[ai]d and upon her refusing to let him kiss her he made an Assault upon her the s[ai]d Elizabeth Collet & beat and [one word unclear due to smudging] her the s[ai]d Elizabeth Collett in Breach of the Peace & farther this Examinant saith not.
The mark X of Elizabeth Collett
* At this point the following words are struck out: "and also of John Bockerill Butcher of the s[ai]d Parish and also of William Kitchener Yeoman of the s[ai]d Parish"
Whilst the surname here is given as Collett rather than Collop, the name Collett does not appear the indexed Stotfold parish register transcript, and the two names are phonetically similar.
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