Author: Lambert, Eliza
Biography:
LAMBERT, Eliza (1807-51: ancestry.co.uk)
She was baptised on 30 Nov. 1807 at All Saints, Derby, the eldest of at least four children of Thomas Fairfax Lambert (1784-1813) and Charlotte Webster (1787-1856), who had married at St. Werburgh, Derby, on 4 Nov. 1805. Her father died, aged 29, in 1813, and her mother later married William Henry Jones (c. 1791-1853), tape manufacturer, on 7 May 1820 at All Saints. They went on to have at least three children. He later became a tea dealer, bookseller, and book agent. There are a number of occasional poems to members of her birth and second families in Poetic Strains (1830). The family was recorded in the 1841 census as living at Green Lane, Derby, with three teenage children from the second marriage, Eliza, and an eight-year-old, Jane Lambert, whose status in the family is unknown: she cannot have been from the first marriage, is unlikely to have been Eliza’s illegitimate issue (although that is a possibility), and may have been a granddaughter or relative. Eliza’s occupation was given as dressmaker. The family later moved to 10 Sitwell Street where she died on 5 Feb. 1851, aged 42 (sic) and was buried at Normanton cemetery. She had been suffering from consumption for a year. (ancestry.co.uk 3 Mar. 2024; findmypast.co.uk 3 Mar. 2024; Derbyshire Courier 8 Feb. 1851; Derby Mercury 12 Feb. 1851; GRO death cert.) AA