Author talk:Emma Sheppard

Latest comment: 10 years ago by Billinghurst in topic Sources

Sources edit

  • Preface to book in 1860 gives residence as Fromefield House, Frome, Somerset
  • Census records (1861 & 1871) state wife of JP/Magistrate for Somerset and Woollen manufacturer, born c,1814, Bath, Somerset

Emma Brown m. George Wood Sheppard. Family history detail available. Husband listed as a widower in 1881 census. From searches of FreeBMD, there are a number of possible deaths, though no one that is clearly evident as this person. Record death as 1870s. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:35, 6 October 2013 (UTC)Reply

Census edit

  • 1871 England

Name: Emma Sheppard
Age: 57
Relation: Wife
Gender: Female
Where born: Bath
Civil Parish: Frome
Town: Frome
County/Island: Somerset
Country: England
Registration district: Frome
Sub-registration district: Frome
ED, institution, or vessel: 13
Household schedule number: 77
Piece: 2432
Folio: 86
Page Number: 5
Household Members:
Name Age
George W Sheppard 63
Emma Sheppard 57
Emma F Sheppard 28
Susan E S Sheppard 27
Isabel B Sheppard 23
Philip A S Sheppard 7
Evelyn Sheppard 6
George G B Sheppard 5
Ellen M Doyle 41
Julia Hagley 14
Hannah E Presley 29
Mary E Vines 20
Emma J Barnett 20
Eliza Stride 39
Ellen Wright 20
Elizabeth Hebbert 40
Mary Shambrook 38

Burial edit

  • Anglican parish registers, Somerset Heritage Service; Taunton, Somerset, England; Reference Number: D\P\wal.sw/2/1/67

Name: Emma Sheppard
Age: 57
Burial Date: 5 Aug 1871
Burial Place: Frome Holy Trinity, Somerset, England
Parish as it Appears: Holy Trinity Frome