1871 Census:

Eliza was five years old at the time of the 1871 census. Her name is given as Lizzie by the enumerator. The Mortlocks lived at High Street, Holywell with Needingworth in Huntingdonshire.

Eliza's father Thomas is shown as a bricklayer. He was aged 28. Her mother Eliza was 29.

Eliza (Lizzie) was the fourth of five children at the time of the 1871 census: Samuel was 10, Emma was 8, Hepzibah was 7 and Thomas was 3.

Eliza was born at Needingworth, Huntingdonshire, today modern Cambridgeshire, as were her mother and the other children. Her father Thomas was born at Swavesey in Cambridgeshire. Despite being in different counties, Swavesey and Needingworth are adjacent villages. The transcript for their entry is here.

Eliza was fifteen years old at the time of the 1881 census. She was living as a servant in the family of James Walter Stephens at Alexandra Place, St Ives, Huntingdonshire.

Eliza is shown as a general servant (domestic). James Stephens was a Grocer and Draper, aged 29. His wife Emma was 33.

Eliza was born at Needingworth, Huntingdonshire. James Stephens was born in St Ives. His wife Emma was born in Needingworth, the same as Eliza (significant?). They had three children born in Fenstanton and St Ives. The transcript for their entry is here.

Eliza's father Thomas was thirty-nine years old at the time of the 1881 census. The Mortlocks lived at High Street, Holywell with Needingworth in Huntingdonshire.

Thomas is shown as a bricklayer. His wife Eliza was forty years old. The Mortlock family had nine children living home at the time of the 1881 census. They were Samuel 20, Thomas 13, Kate 9, John 7, Jannett (baptised Jennetta) 5, Julia 4 , Ruth 3, Martha 1 and an unnamed infant, almost certainly Alice, aged 3 days.

Thomas's place of birth is shown as Swavesey, Cambridgeshire. All the rest of the family were born at Needingworth, Huntingdonshire. The transcript for their entry is here.




1885: Eliza married William Huckle Cornwell on the 22nd March at St Andrew, Histon, Cambridgeshire. They were both 21 years old. The witnesses were John Royal Hounsham and Hannah Cornwell.

1891 Census:

Eliza was twenty-seven years old at the time of the 1891 census. She was married. The Cornwell family were living on High Street, Histon, Cambridgeshire. The road still exists on the outskirts of the city of Cambridge.

Eliza's husband William is shown as an agricultural labourer. He was also aged 27. His birth year is also shown as 1864.

Eliza had three children at the time of the 1891 census: Charles was 5, Lily was 3 and Walter was 1.

Eliza was born at Needingworth in Huntingdonshire. Her husband William was born in Histon. The children were all born in Histon. The transcript for their entry is here.

Eliza was thirty-seven years old at the time of the 1901 census. The Cornwell family were living on Dry Drayton Road, Oakington, Cambridgeshire. Dry Drayton road still exists and is home to one of the largest glasshouses in Cambridgeshire.

Her husband William is shown as a bricklayer's labourer, aged 38. His birth year is given as 1863.

Eliza had seven children living at home at the time of the 1901 census: Charles was 15, Lily was 13, Walter was 11, Violet was 9, Catherine was 7, Frances was 5, and Ruth was 1.

Eliza was born at Needingworth in Huntingdonshire. Her husband William was born in Histon: the children were all born in Histon except for Ruth who was born in Oakington. The transcript for their entry is here.

1911 Census:

Eliza was forty-seven years old at the time of the 1911 census. The Cornwell family were living on Dry Drayton Road, Oakington, Cambridgeshire, as they were in 1901. Dry Drayton road still exists.

Eliza is shown as a farm labourer, her husband William as a roadman, also aged 47. They had been married for 26 years.

Eliza had seven children: Charles was 25, Walter 21, Violet 18, Frances 15, Ruth 11, William 9 and my grandfather Stanley 7.

Eliza was born in Needingworth in Huntingdonshire. The children were all born in either Oakington, Cambridgeshire, or the neighbouring village of Histon, today a suburb of Cambridge. Her husband William was also born in Histon. The transcript for their entry is here. The page itself is here.

1921 Census:

On the night of the 1921 census, Eliza was staying with her daughter Ruth Wheeldon and husband John Wheeldon at Hamstall Ridware, Staffordshire. Eliza was 55 years old. Her son-in-law John was a plate layer for the civil engineering department of the Rugeley TU. As well as John and Ruth, their two year old daughter Cynthia was also in the household. The census return is here.

The Cornwell family were living at Wheeler Street, Oakington, Cambridgeshire. William was 54 and is shown as a roadman (repairer) for Cambridge County Council. Also in the household on census night were Frances, aged 26 whose occupation was shown as household duties, and William, 19, a driver for Laurie and MacConnall department store in Fitzroy Street, Cambridge and Edmund, who was a month short of his 18th birthday. He was recorded as being a bricklayer's labourer for Mortlock builders of Willingham (his mother's family). The census return is here.