Eliza Matilda Barrand was child No 4 of John Barrand and Eleanor West and was born on the 3rd December, 1849 Birth Ref Eliza Matilda Barrard St. Giles 1850 - 1st Qtr (1 - 74) although no actual birth record for an Eliza Matilda Barrand was registered, she was recorded as Eliza Matilda Barrard and she was certainly baptised on the 9th May, 1852 on the same day as her younger sister, Sarah Sophia. The family lived at 23, Union Street in 1851 and 1852, although it was at King’s Head Yard that Eliza was born. This is part of Duke Street, Lincoln Inns. The White Horse PH was at No. 2 Kings Head Yard.
She is shown on the census for 1851, 1861 and possibly 1871, although in 1871 there is an “Eliza M. Barran” employed as a servant but it is an unlikely record as it is not in London. Eliza however had an illegitimate son, Amos, born in the Islington Workhouse on the 3rd February, 1876 and baptised on the 23rd March, 1876. She is described in the baptism records as a “single woman”. They were discharged from the hospital when Amos was 2 months old. They were again admitted to the hospital when Amos developed fever in 1877 the following year and discharged shortly afterwards. Amos continued with the Barrand name as his father is unknown. There is no sign of Eliza Matilda on the 1881 census or of Amos, but Eliza appears again on the 1891 census as a charwoman in Islington. Eliza died in the Great Northern Hospital on the 28th October, 1894 - aged 43, and her death certificate shows that she was the daughter of John Barrand, a jeweller journeyman. The death certificate also shows she was employed as a laundress and died of heart disease. Eliza’s sister Sarah Sophia Wood was present at the death and Sarah’s address is shown as 53, Andover Road, Islington. Eliza Matilda was buried in Islington Cemetery on the 1st November, 1894. Death Ref: Islington 1894 - 4th Qtr (1b - 125)
ELIZA MATILDA BARRAND Female No: 1023 on the Registers
Event(s):
Birth: 03 DEC 1849
Christening: 09 MAY 1852 Old Church, Saint Pancras, London, England
Parents: Father: JOHN BARRAND
Mother: ELEANOR WEST
Source Information:
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C047935 1847 0598171 Film 6900163 Film
IGI Record of the birth of Eliza Matilda Barrand 1849
Birth Certificate Eliza Matilda Barrand
Map showing Kings Head Yard St. Giles The Barrands lived at No: 1.
| John b 04/11/1752 d 1830 - 1840 Frances bc 1753 d 14/02/1831 = c 1778 William Potter b 1750 d 1818 Thomas bc 1755 d 1810 = 22/06/1781 Susan Cook bc 1752 d 1822 James b 1756 d 1756 Mary b ? d ? = 20/05/1783 John Jones Sarah b 1761 d 1833 James Mather b 1761 d 1823 Mary Turpin b 1732 d 1821 John Barraud b 1728 d c 1765 Re-married in 1772 to William Pether = 12/12/1772 William b 1760 = 29/05/1803 Margaret Callow b 1764 d 1837 = 04/03/1783 = 27/11/1752 Elizabeth b 1763 d 1827 Thomas b 1783 d 1836 Peter Cook b 1785 d 1839 Elizabeth b 1787 Ann b 1789 d ? John b 1791 d 1871 Joseph b 1793 d 1839 Eliza Cook b 1795 = 11/11/1804 Sarah Eliz. Took b 1780 d 1852 = 05/09/1810 Eliz. Corry b 1784 d 1837 = 15/11/1812 John Stead b 1778 d ? Ann Routeledge b 1795 d 1857 = 27/03/1827 Eleanor Page b 1795 d 1845 = 24/08/1815 James Able b 1779 d 1849 William b 1782 d 1835 = 06/04/ 1804 Alice Young b 1774 d 1833 = 29/11/1813 Robert W, b 1815 d 1839 Thomas b 1822 d ? Emigrated = 16/02/1846 Caroline Anderson b 1826 Arthur b 1824 d ? (Eliza) b 1826 To Australia Phoebe b 1828 d 1829 James b 1830 d 1914 Alfred b 1834/36 d 1854 John b 1818 d 1867 Emma Lash b 1829 d 1894 = 09/08/1852 George Richard b 1820 d 1872 Emma Chivers b 1825 d 1890 = 19/05/1844 = 16/03/1841 Eleanor West b 1821 d 1859 Susan b 1817 d 1876 William Baskett b 1818 d 1899 = 09/12/1844 Eleanor Nancy b 1844 d 1890 John Thomas b 1845 d 1878 Arthur Archibald b 1848 To USA Eliza Matilda b 1849 d 1894 Sarah Sophia b 1850 d 1877 Susannah Mary b 1855 d 1897 Elizabeth Emma b 1857 No records after 1871 Amos b 1876 d 1947 | ||||||||||||
Baptism record of Eliza Matilda Barrand
1851 Census, aged 1
1861 Census, aged 11
1871 census a servant ?? on Ancestry or Findmypast
1881 census not found on Ancestry or Findmypast
Discharge 1876 Discharge from workhouse Hospital 1877 Hospital 1878
1891 Census age 42
Death Certificate of Eliza Matilda Barrand 1894
Burial record of Eliza Matilda Barrand Gt. Northern Hospital: age 42, buried: 01/11/1894
Amos Barrand was the only child of Eliza Barrand, and his father is unknown. Amos was born in the Islington Infirmary on the 3rd February, 1876 and baptised on the 23rd March, 1876. There is no record of a birth of Amos Barrand in the BMD registers, but there is a record of an Amos Frederick Barnard, born in 1876. Birth Ref: Islington 1876 - 1st Qtr (1b - 399) It is most probable that this is the son of Eliza Matilda Barrand as it is known she was living at the Islington Workhouse at the time of the birth of her son, and the birth was registered by the master of the workhouse. Certainly, the birth certificate shows the mother as Eliza, but her surname is recorded as Barnard and there is no father’s name recorded. Amos was admitted to the workhouse hospital many times and clearly he was a very sick child. There are over 12 admissions and discharge records during the first 10 years of Amos’s life. On Amos's marriage certificate, his father's name is recorded as Amos Barrand (deceased) a clerk. Neither Amos nor Eliza, his mother shows on the 1881 census, but they both show on the 1891 census. In 1901, Amos was working in the shoe trade and by 1911 he was a boot maker's dealer in London. Amos married Emma Amelia Hanslow in Thanet on the 3rd April, 1904. Marriage Ref: Thanet 1904 - 2nd Qtr (2a - 2077). On the marriage certificate, Amos’s father is again recorded as “Amos Barrand” deceased, which is incorrect as his father is not known. Emma Amelia Hanslow was born in 1880, a daughter of James Hanslow, a coachmaker from Ramsgate, and Dinah Symonds who was an illegitimate child of Eliza Symonds from Bridport in Dorset, and she died in 1938, aged 58. Death Ref: St. Pancras 1938 - 3rd Qtr (1b - 112) Amos died in 1948 - aged 72 Death Ref: Hampstead 1948 - 2nd Qtr (5c - 743) at his address of 23 Haverstock Road, Hornsey, and was buried on the 8th June, 1848 in Islington Cemetery.
In 1925 only Amos and Amelia are shown on the voters’ lists in Pancras, and in 1930 their daughter, Constance is living with them. After Amelia's death in 1938, the records show that Marjorie Emma, their youngest daughter lived with Amos.
They had 2 children; Constance Daisy Dorothy, born on the 21st March, 1905 in Thanet. Birth Ref: Thanet 1905 - 1st Qtr (2a - 1096) It would appear from the probate record of Amos in 1948, that Constance was already married in 1948 and she certainly changed her name to Constance Roberts in 1962 by deed poll, and the notice was placed in the London gazette. The problem here is that Constance Roberts was mentioned in Amos’s will in 1948 as “a married woman” but in 1962, she is mentioned as a spinster. It seems that Constance may have already married by 1948, but Constance was still registered as Barrand in the 1938 registers. The only possible record is that of a Constance Roberts marrying a John H. Roberts in Halstead (Essex) in October of 1967. Ref: Halstead 4th Qtr (4a-1669) and this appears to be the correct marriage.
In the records for 1939, I believe the census shows Constance as married to a John Herbert Roberts (b 21st June 1892) who was a draughtsman and map-maker and Constance was a housewife both living in Begwood Court, Hendon. Certainly the date of birth for Constance is correct as 21st March, 1905. I am not sure, but there is mention of a Constance Roberts in 1963 living in Marylebone along with an Ada Roberts and a Phyllis Roberts. I cannot be certain but there is a death record of a Constance Roberts in Ipswich in 1995, with a birth date of 21st March, 1905, at the age of 90. Ref: Aug 1995, Ipswich - Reg A15B District 7171B Entry 199.
John Herbert Roberts died in 1970 in Ipswich 2nd Qtr - 4b 2482
Probate record of Constance Roberts
Birth Certificate of Amos Barrand (Barnard)
Eliza and Amos discharge from Workhouse
Baptism record of Amos Barrand
Name: Amos Frederick Barnard
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1876
Registration district: Islington
Inferred County: Greater London, London, Middlesex
Volume: 1b
Page: 399
Parish Record of the birth of Amos Frederick Barnard
1881 census - not found
1891 Census, age 15
1901 Census, age 25
Marriage certificate of Amos Barrand and Emma Amelia Hanslow
1911 Census
Birth Certificate of Constance Daisy Dorothy Barrand
Extract from London Gazette, 10th August, 1962.
Notice is hereby given that by a deed poll dated 9th August, 1962, and enrolled in the Supreme Court of Justice on 10th August, 1962, CONSTANCE ROBERTS, of 1, The Driveway, Cuffley, Potters Bar in the County of Middlesex (Spinster, a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by birth), abandoned the surname of Barrand and former christian names of Daisy Dorothy - Dated 10th Day of August, 1962.
Signed Constance Roberts, formerly Constance Daisy Dorothy Barrand.
Their 2nd child was Marjorie Emma, born in St. Pancras on 20th July, 1915. Birth Ref: St. Pancras 1915 - 3rd Qtr (1b - 180) and in 1939 she was still living with Amos Barrand in Haverstock Road, working as shorthand typist and at the age of 41, she married Frederick George Whittingham Bennett, aged 53 on the 10th April, 1957 at the Register Office in Hampstead Marriage Ref: Hampstead 1957 - 2nd Qtr (5c - 1402) Marjorie’s sister, Constance (now Constance Roberts) was a witness at the marriage. It is most likely that Frederick Bennett died in 1991 aged 87 in Potters Bar, and Marjorie died in 2002 at the age of 86 in Barnet. Death Ref: Barnet 2002 (87E - 194)
Constance Barrand also lived in Potters Bar in 1962.
1939 Census
Birth Certificate of Marjorie Emma Barrand
Marriage Certificate of Marjorie Emma Barrand
Will of Amos Barrand
Burial record of Amos Barrand, Hornsey age 72 - Buried: 08/06/1948