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BATTERHAM, Elizabeth
1848 - 1915 (67 years) Has 40 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
1815 - 1899 (84 years)-
Name BATTERHAM, Elizabeth Birth 1848 West Walton, Norfolk 
Gender Female Burial 1915 West Walton, Norfolk, England Death 10 Jun 1915 Wisbech Registration District, Cambridgeshire Person ID I1427 Edgoose Last Modified 30 Jan 2026
Father BATTERHAM, Joseph, b. 1815, Walsoken, Norfolk d. 28 Dec 1899, West Walton, Norfolk (Age 84 years) Mother OLDFIELD, Mary Ann, b. 9 Jan 1821, West Walton, Norfolk d. 17 Jul 1910, West Walton, Norfolk (Age 89 years) Marriage 1842 Wisbech Registration District, Cambridgeshire Family ID F162 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family LOVOCK, George, b. 1854, Bourne Registration District, Lincolnshire d. 1 Sep 1910, Boston, Lincolnshire, England (Age 56 years) Marriage 28 Nov 1877 The Parish Church Of St. James, Doncaster, Yorkshire Family ID F815 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
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Birth - 1848 - West Walton, Norfolk 
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ELIZABETH BATTERHAM 1848-1915
The birth of an Elizabeth BATTERHAM was registered in 1848.
(GRO September Q 1848 Wisbech 14 171).
At the time of the 1851 census Joseph BATTERHAM, aged 35 and born at Walsoken in Norfolk, was the farmer of six acres of land and lived at South Field, West Walton, Wisbeach. The rest of the family were all born in West Walton:
Mary BATTERHAM, his 30 year old wife;
Joseph BATTERHAM, their 8 year old son, a scholar;
Mary A. BATTERHAM, their 6 year old daughter, a scholar;
Maria BATTERHAM, their 4 year old daughter, a scholar;
*Elizabeth BATTERHAM, their 2 year old daughter, a scholar.
Ann OLDFIELD (nee EDGOOSE and Mary BATTERHAM's mother), a 52 year old annuitant, was a visitor.
(HO/107/1766/564/19).
From the 1861 census of Chappel (sic) Row, Walsoken, Norfolk:
Francis BETTERHAM (sic), head, aged 65 (i.e. born 1795-1796), widow, agricultural labourer, born at Holm Hill (sic), Norfolk;
*Eliza BETTERHAM, granddaughter, aged 12, scholar, born at West Walton, Norfolk;
Leshoma BETTERHAM, granddaughter, aged 5, scholar, born at West Walton.
RG9/1052/68/12)
The marriage between Elizabeth BATTERHAM and George LOVOCK was registered in 1877.
George LOVOCK, a twenty three year old bachelor, a signalman, living at The Carry (?), Doncaster, Yorkshire, and son of Charles LOVOCK, farm labourer, married 24 year old spinster Elizabeth BATTERHAM of Cleveland Street, Doncaster, and daughter of Joseph Batterham, gardener, at the Parish Church of St. James Doncaster, Yorkshire, on 28 November 1877. Witnesses were John WELLS and Elizabeth Sarah HAYNES.
(Marriage Certificate)
From the 1901 census of 8, West Street, Paddock Grove, head, married, aged 46, railway signalman, born at Swayfield, Lincolnshire;
George LOVOCK, head, married, aged 46, railway signalman, born at Swayfield, Lincolnshire;
*Elizabeth LOVOCK, wife, married, aged 50, born at West Walton, Norfolk;
Lillian E. HOULTBY, boarder, aged 18, milliner, born at Louth, Lincolnshire.
(RG13/3046/7/6)
According to a gravestone in Boston's Marian Road Cemetery, George LOVOCk died on 1 December 1910.
(Lincolnshire MIs)
LOVOCK George William of 8 Paddock-grove Boston Lincolnshire died 1 December 1910 Administration Lincoln 4 September to Elizabeth LOVOCK widow. Effects £448
(National Probate Calendar 1912)
From the 1911 census of 8 Paddock Grove, Boston, Lincolnshire:
*Elizabeth LOVOCK, head, aged 60, widow, no children, born at West Walton, Norfolk;
Lucy SHAW, boarder, aged 26, single, milliner, born at Friskney, Lincolnshire.
(RG14PN19597 RG78PN1176 RD415 SD3 ED9 SN108)
Elizabeth LOVOCK died on 10 June 1915 and was buried in West Walton Cemetery, Norfolk, aged 66.
(GRO June Q Wisbech 3b 727)
(Cemetery headstone)
(revised 19.05.2017)