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Elizabeth Blanche (Eliza) Burton (1806–1849)
Elizabeth Blanche (Eliza) Brasier (1849–1877)

1806/7–77

Daughter of Mary and Henry Burton. Married James Brasier, naval officer (1783/4–1864) in 1849.

Sources

BMD (Marriage index, Death index)

Burke’s landed gentry 1952

Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/1986/578/12)

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 21 June 2017)

Bibliography

BMD: General Register Office, England and Wales civil registration indexes. England & Wales birth index, 1837–1983. England and Wales marriage index, 1837–1983. England and Wales death index, 1837–1983. Online database. Provo, Utah: The Generations Network. 2006. www.ancestry.com.

Burke’s landed gentry: A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank but unvisited with heritable honours. Burke’s genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry. By John Burke et al. 1st–18th edition. London: Henry Colburn [and others]. 1833–1969.

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