Elizabeth Crawford

   Cause of her death was Senile debility.

   Other names for Elizabeth were Eliza Bisset, Elisabeth Crawfurd and Crawfurd Elizabeth.

  Noted events in her life were:

• She had a residence in Nov 1846 in 30 Reather Street, Manchester, England.

• She worked as a Nurse in 1851.

• She appeared on the census in 1851 in 16 Lowndes Square, Upper Chelsea, Chelsea, Middlesex, England. Recorded (aged 39) living in the house of her employer, Edward Sherlock Gooch MP (48, MP, JP, Landed Proprietor), his wife Harriet (32) and their children Elizabeth (10, scholar at home), Diana (9, scholar at home), Edward (7, scholar at home), Harriet (6, scholar at home), Charlotte (5, scholar at home) and Francis (6m). Also in the house were Mary Pope (24, governess), Samuel Copeman (40, butler), George Mills (22, footman), Elizabeth Martin (40, cook), Mary James (28, ladys maid), Mary Tilling (29, housemaid), Agnes Bisset (23, nurse), Louisa Reynolds (16, nurse) and Grace MacKenzie (23, kitchen maid).

• She worked as a Nurse in 1861.

• She appeared on the census in 1861 in Pitsligo Road, St Cuthbert, Edinburgh, Scotland. Recorded (aged 52) as a widowed nurse living and working for David Paterson (fundholder) and his family. There were 3 nurses in the house as well as an additional wet nurse for the family, which had 5 children.

• She appeared on the census in 1871 in Newbigging, Dalmeny, Linlithgowshire, Scotland. Recorded (aged 62) as a visitor to the home of Robert Hastings (35, agricultural labourer), his wife Agnes (35), their children Robert (11), Janet (10), Andrew (5) and Margaret (3), as well as Mary Hill (1) who was boarding with them.

• She appeared on the census in 1881 in 5 Camden Crescent, Walcot, Bath, Somerset, England. Recorded (aged 72) as a visitor to a lodging house run by Eliza Bendall (67, lodging house keeper). Also in the house were servants Elizabeth Bendall (63) and Sarah Taylor (15), as well as visitors and lodgers John W Rolt (21, dividends), Frederick Hallam (22, domestic groom), Jane Fuller (68, dividends) and her ladys nurse Eliza Laich (49).

• She was ill with senile debility in 1891.

Elizabeth married James Bisset, son of Archibald Bisset and Kathrine Orr, on 7 Sep 1845 in Barony, Lanarkshire, Scotland. (James Bisset was born in 1816 in Kirkliston, Linlithgowshire, Scotland, christened on 4 Aug 1816 in Kirkliston, Linlithgowshire, Scotland, died on 24 May 1847 in Morningside, Edinburgh, Scotland and was buried in 1847 in Cramond, Edinburgh, Scotland.) The cause of his death was Consumption.

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They had marriage banns published on 7 Sep 1845 in Barony, Lanarkshire, Scotland. James Bisset, engineer, and Elizabeth Crawford both residing in Barony Parish.