Elizabeth Jenner (1794–1821)
Elizabeth Weir (1821–1876)
1794/5–1876
Daughter of Elizabeth Jenner and Thomas Jenner, farmer, of Warr’s Farm, Chailey, Sussex. After her father’s death, lived in Lewes, Sussex, with her mother and sisters. Married John Weir, bank manager in Lewes and later administration clerk at Somerset House, London, in Lewes in 1821. Mother of John Jenner Weir and Harrison William Weir.
Sources
Census returns of England and Wales 1841 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/1052/2/33/20), 1851 (HO107/1581/[10/39]), 1861 (RG9/567/90/30), 1871 (RG10/1007/128/7)
England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestrylibraryedition.co.uk, accessed 2 December 2019)
England, select marriages, 1538–1973 (Ancestry.com, accessed 2 December 2019)
leweshistory.org.uk/2017/07/03/lewes-history-group-bulletin-83-june-2017/, accessed 18 December 2019
ODNB s.v. Weir, Harrison William
will of Thomas Jenner, her father (East Sussex Record Office HIL/5/7/1)
will of Thomas Jenner, her brother, d. 1834 (East Sussex RO SAS-WG/91)
will of Elizabeth Jenner, her mother (East Sussex RO HIL/5/7/3)
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
