Elizabeth Wood

  General Notes:

Louise Brown notes:
Name given on daughter's death certificate
Aged 53 in 1881 Census;

David Cunningham notes:
marriage certificate obtained: domestic servant, living in Sharperton at time of marriage

Canot find in 1901 census and her sonThomas is listed as the head of her home at 10 Edward Street so probably died 1891-1901

  Noted events in her life were:

• Census, 1891, Westgate, Newcastle Tyne, Northumberland, England. Age 64 and a widow, living at 10 Edward Street.
Birthplace given as Thropton (near Rothbury) but as Wallsend in 1881 and Rothbury in 1861

Elizabeth married William Nixon, son of Thomas Nixon and Ann, on 6 Apr 1851 in Alwinton, Northumberland, England.¹ (William Nixon was born in 1827 in Bellingham, Northumberland, England and died in 1881-1891.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Census, 1861, Westgate, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland, England. Living at 37 Westgate Street with 5 children

• Census, 1871, Westgate, Newcastle Tyne, Northumberland, England. Living at 10 Edward Street with 8 children

• Census, 1881, Westgate, Newcastle Tyne, Northumberland, England. Living at 10 Edward Street with 7 children
William's birthplace given as Blyth and Elizabeth's as Wallsend (cf 1871 census)
John Armstrong, age 22 and single was living with them as a boarder