Reeve, Elizabeth

Summary

Father: Jonah Reeve
Mother: Elizabeth Houston

Birth: 10 Jan 1774
Birth Source: Baptism

Death: 25 Dec 1846
Death Source: Headstone

Spouse1: John Worsley, m. 21 Oct 1793

Narrative

Children of John Worsley and Elizabeth Reeve:

1. Elizabeth Worsley, b. 23 Dec 1795 in Wash Street, St. Andrews Parish, Town of Hertford
2. George Worsley, b. 27 Jul 1797 in Wash Street, St. Andrews Parish, Town of Hertford
3. Sarah Reeve Worsley, b. 27 Nov 1798 in Wash Street, St. Andrews Parish, Town of Hertford
4. Maria Worsley, b. 15 May 1800 in Wash Street, St. Andrews Parish, Town of Hertford
5. Rebeckah Worsley, b. 22 Oct 1803 in Bocking Parish, Essex County
6. Martha Worsley, b. 19 Oct 1807 in Woodstreet, St Michael Parish, City of London, Middlesex County
7. James Alfred Worsley, b. 15 Apr 1811 in Woodstreet, St Michael Parish, City of London, Middlesex County

Her birth and baptism were recorded in Bocking Independent Registers:
Elizabeth Reeve, Daughter of Jonah Reeve, Grocer and of Elizabeth his Wife, of the Parish of Bocking in the Couty of Essex (born on the Tenth Day of January 1774) was baptized on the third day of February 1774 By the Revd Mr Peyto of Coggeshall (Piece 1500, folio 13)

The following items of interest were copied from the blog of Delores Dickson as taken from the Diary of a Ms. Livermore which is found in the Essex Record Office in Chelmsford, Essex:

• Monday October 21, 1793 was married at Bocking Church, Elizabeth Reeve daughter of Jonas & Elizabeth Reeve large traders in ye grocer, drapers and milliner way to Mr. Lee who was an apprentice in the same shop. Are now going to live in Hertfordshire to keep ship the ye cloth members of ye Revd Mr. Thorogood Church Bocking Meeting

She is referred to as "Elizabeth Worsley (the wife of John Worsley)" in her mother's will.

The above births of the children were registered on 12 Feb 1819 by Thos Morgan in Dr Williams' Library Registry Birth Certificates. The entries are taken together with parents listed as "John Worsley, & Elizabeth, Daughter of Jonah Reeve." The original certificates are available as well.

The Worsleys moved to Ontario, Canada, where she, John, and children George, Martha, Rebecca, and James Alfred are buried together in the Woodlawn Memorial Park in Guelph.

Research Notes

Sources

Baptism:    RG4, Essex Independent Registers, Piece 1500 (Bocking, 1738-1794), folios 13
Marriage1:  Diary of a Ms. Livermore, Essex Record Office in Chelmsford, Essex (see blog by Delores Dickson)
Burial:       Findagrave - Elizabeth Worsley - Woodlawn Memorial Park, Guelph, Wellington County, Ontario

RG4: Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths, Piece 4663: Dr Williams' Library Registry, Birth Certificates, 1817-1820, folio 192 (Ancestry)

Findagrave - John Worsley - Woodlawn Memorial Park, Guelph, Wellington County, Ontario
Findagrave - George Worsley - Woodlawn Memorial Park, Guelph, Wellington County, Ontario
Findagrave - Rebecca Worsley - Woodlawn Memorial Park, Guelph, Wellington County, Ontario
Findagrave - Martha Worsley - Woodlawn Memorial Park, Guelph, Wellington County, Ontario
Findagrave - James Alfred Worsley - Woodlawn Memorial Park, Guelph, Wellington County, Ontario