Eliza WARD 1846 d/o Elizabeth (General)

by holly , Friday, October 29, 2010, 15:09 (5144 days ago) @ Simone

thank you so much - as you said - it is so complicated. You are brilliant working it all out.

If Phoebe had all the illegitimate children (sounds as if they were all children of John Burns) I could envisage a situation where when Eliza married Peter she could have put her uncle Richard as her father and just changed the surname to Ward from Webb!! Alternatively, I wonder if Charles had the first or second Christian name of Richard!

I totally agree with an illegitimate child being raised by their grandparents - I actually taught a teenager who was in that position and had only recently discovered that an elder sister was actually their mother!

So my Eliza is the daughter of Charles and Charlotte. On the 1851 census they have George (1847).

I would love any information you might have - many thanks. I am going to try to work out your other thread links.