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Charlotte Young (1809–1835)
Charlotte Elton (1835–1850)
Charlotte Kerr (1850–1887)

1809–87

Second of eight daughters of vice-admiral James Young and his wife Charlotte Ann of Barton End, Horsley, near Stroud, Gloucestershire. Elder sister of Sophia, wife of Bartholomew James Sulivan. Married James Frederick Elton (1810–44, son of Jacob Elton and his wife Charlotte Young), lieutenant, Fortieth Regiment of Foot, in Horsley in 1835; living in Westbury on Trym, Gloucestershire, 1841. Married James Kerr of the Civil Department, Dublin Castle, at Kings Stanley, Gloucestershire, in 1850. Widowed by 1871. Lived in Hove, Sussex, 1881.

Sources

BMD (Death index)

Census returns of England and Wales 1841 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/359/4/9/12), 1871 (RG10/2460/12/16), 1881 (RG11/1098/32/7)

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1995 (Ancestry.com, accessed 27 May 2021)

Essex, England, Church of England baptisms, marriages and burials, 1538–1812 (Ancestry.com, accessed 18 June 2020)

Gloucester Journal, 6 April 1850, p. 3

Gloucestershire, England, Church of England baptisms, marriages and burials, 1538–1813 (Ancestry.com, accessed 18 June 2020)

Gloucestershire, England, Church of England marriages and banns, 1754–1938 (Ancestry.com, accessed 18 June 2020)

Sulivan ed. 1896, p. xii

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.

Sulivan, Henry Norton, ed. 1896. Life and letters of the late Admiral Sir Bartholomew James Sulivan, KCB, 1810–1890. London: John Murray.

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