Re: Eliza Hannah Kirk and Edward Halkyard
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Eliza Hannah Kirk and Edward Halkyard
Alan Fish 11/02/04
Edward and Eliza Hannah Halkyard had three children, all born in Oldham, as far as I know from the IGI. Mary was born in about 1877, Agnes, 1879, and Sarah in 1881. It seems that Eliza died in child birth or very soon after. I have found what appears to be the family in the 1881 census, Edward and the children match, but Edward is listed as a widower. Sarah is listed as 1 m, one month old, so she would have been born at the end of February or early March, since the census was taken on the 3rd April. Eliza must have died within that month. On that census, Edward's brother, James, and his wife, Mary, and what appears to be her three children from a previous marriage, are living with Edward. Her children are Margaret A. Short, William Short, and Elizabeth Short.