Bussicott

 

 

 

Eliza Bussicott




Eliza was born in Pimlico in 1839 and we know she was with her mother aged 12 in 1851.   

I could not trace her in the 1861 Census but she married James Salter and they had a son Alfred Salter born in Pimlico in 1865 and a daughter Ada born in Pimlico in 1869. 

In the April 1871 Census they were living in 2 Cheyne Row West in Old Church district of Chelsea

Name DOB Born In Age Profession
James Salter 1841 Pimlico 30 House decorator
Eliza Salter 1842 Pimlico 29  
Alfred Salter 1865 Pimlico 6  
Ada Salter 1869 Pimlico 2  

Then they have another child Christabel born in 1872. 

Then sometime in the 1870’s Eliza must have died as in the 1881 census James Salter (a widower) is living as a lodger in 7 Grosvenor Cottages in St Georges Hanover Square. He is still a house decorator.

Alfred Salter at 16 has presumably left home by 1881. However in the 1881 census Ada now aged 13 and Christabel aged 9 are living with Emma Hancock at 6 Wood Buildings Chelsea, who is described as a charwoman. The two children are both described as Nurse Child. 

James Salter remarried to a Mary Balaam in 1899. 

In 1891 we know that Ada was living at the home of a Mr Leigh working as a servant. He was an attendant at the Natural History Museum. 

As for Christabel at aged 18 in 1891 she was in a Girls Home – the Ealsham Howe Memorial Home in Forest Rise.  

Christine Wilmot has been in touch via the Internet and she has traced Christabel as her great grandmother. She says that Christabel met Christine’s great grandfather Sidney and they married on 5th February 1901. At the time of the marriage they were living at Moss near Doncaster. Christabel and Sidney had two children Dorothy (Dolly) and Gladys. 
Christine has her family history on tribal pages and a photograph of Christabel can be found here

Legend: 
BC= birth certificate
MC= marriage certificate
DC= death certificate