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Elizabeth JUSTHAM

Elizabeth JUSTHAM

Female 1739 - Abt 1815  (76 years)    Has 26 ancestors and 690 descendants in this family tree.


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  • Name Elizabeth JUSTHAM 
    Relationshipwith Teresa Ann GOATHAM
    Born 1739  Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location 
    • (assumed from baptism)
    Baptised 12 Jun 1739  St. Andrew’s Church, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location 
    • PR entry shows "Elizabeth Jutson", dau of Stephen and Thomasin
    Gender Female 
    Miscellaneous 1747  Stoke Damerel, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location 
    Orphaned 
    • When she was aged just about 8 Elizabeth lost both of her parents, one dying in May, the other in June. Two grandparents remained alive, her maternal grandfather and paternal grandmother, but the former died shortly after, in July the same year. One of her 6 siblings had died the previous year, the others (if still living) were aged from 1 to 15; the remaining sibling closest to her in age, John, was certainly still living, but at some point moved down to Falmouth. I suspect this was an arrangement made by the Buckland overseers - I have seen a reference to them sending boys as apprentices to Falmouth, not quite at the right time for John but it would explain him being there rather than in Buckland. Hopefully Elizabeth, bereft of so many close family in a short time, received the support she needed from her remaining grandmother. It may not be unrelated to her need for closeness that the year after her grandmother died, when Elizabeth was 16, she gave birth to an illegitimate son. 

      I wonder what happened to the family?
    Residence 1815  Lillipit, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location 
    • Elizabeth was living in this hamlet at the time of her death
    Died Abt Jan 1815  Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location 
    • (assumed from burial)
    Buried 4 Feb 1815  St. Andrew’s Church, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    • From DFHS index of PR entries (on FMP, viewed 1 May 2013)

      Shows Elizabeth Merrifield, of Lillipeek [Lillipit] - just south of Milton Combe, Milton being where Elizabeth's son died (and may have spent his working life) and where her grandson and possibly most of her family lived.
      Crucially, the burial entry shows her as aged 76, i.e. suggesting she was born about 1738-9, and so tying in with the age suggested by her baptism.
    Siblings 3 brothers and 3 sisters 
    Patriarch & Matriarch
    Anthony JETSHAM,   b. Est 1630,   d. 1665  (Age ~ 35 years)  (Great Grandfather) 
    Margarett,   d. Mar 1737, Meavy, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location  (Grandmother) 
    Person ID I1154  All | Teresa's direct ancestors
    Last Modified 10 Jan 2024 

    Father Stephen JUSTHAM,   b. Abt 1706, Meavy, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt May 1747, Stoke Damerel, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 41 years) 
    Mother Thomasina NORTHMORE,   b. Abt 1710, Meavy, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location,   d. Jun 1747, Stoke Damerel, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 37 years) 
    Married 19 Oct 1731  St. Peter’s Church, Meavy, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F897  Family Group Page  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Richard ? PIKE ?,   b. Est 1736, (probably), Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Relationship Abt 1756 
    Unmarried: no evidence of a long-term relationship 
    • The overseers accounts for Buckland Monachorum show payments made to care for Elizabeth and her son, but there is no evidence of trying to establish who the father of her child was, nor of forcing a father to support his son.
    Married? Not married or evidence to suggest they didn't marry 
    Children
    +1. Richard Pike JUSTHAM,   b. Abt 1756, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location,   d. Jan 1826, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 70 years)
    ▻ Ann GUBBINS  m. 31 Jul 1779;   Alice NUTE  m. 5 Nov 1780
     
    Last Modified 17 Aug 2019 
    Family ID F896  Family Group Page  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Peter MEREFIELD,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married 24 Apr 1769  St. Mary’s Church, Sampford Spiney, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location 
    • From DFHS index of PR entries (on FMP, viewed 1 May 2013) and on Dartmoor Press (DP) CD
      Merefield, Peter to Jutsham, Elizabeth; DP info shows both were sojourners of the parish rather than longer-term residents.
      Not only was Justham (including variants) not a common surname, but the burial of an 'Elizabeth Merrifield' back in Buckland Monachorum ties in with this Elizabeth (she was the right age, and living in the same part of the parish as her son and grandson lived in), adding weight to my suggestion that this was her marriage. 

      The marriage register for marriages 1754-1812 is not available on FMP. The BT entry can be seen on FamilySearch:
      "Peter merefield and Elizabeth Jutsham both sojourners were married in this Church by Banns the 24th day of April 1769"

      No children found of this marriage - looking at baptisms in Devon, surname beginning Mer*, as on FMP on 1 May 2013. Also none on DP 'M' CD.
    Last Modified 16 Mar 2023 
    Family ID F5667  Family Group Page  |  Family Chart

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  • Sources 
    1. [S198] Buckland Monachorum - St. Andrew’s Church - m/f images, St. Andrew’s Church (Buckland Monachorum, Devon), Burial of Elizabeth Merrifield; DE/REG/57873/1-18 (Reliability: 3), 26 Aug 2013.
      [Name] Elizabeth Merrifield, [Abode] Lillipeek, [When buried] February 4th, [Age] 76, [By whom the Ceremony was performed] Rd Reed.
      Under heading "Burials in the Parish of Buckland Monachorum in the County of Devon in the Year 1814" - change to 1815 part way down page in left margin.