Elizabeth Jane Somebody

Circumstantial evidence piles up around a suspect after dozens of others are eliminated from my inquiries.

Hours and hours spent on the George Adams and Elizabeth Jane Somebody mystery again.  She came and went through George's life between censuses, which has been the most unhelpful thing of all.  After trying every conceivable way to find a marriage, or death/burial record, for an Elizabeth Adams in the right time span and in the right part of the country, and coming up without any strong (or even weak) possibilities, I decided on a whim to just look for any other Elizabeths (ignoring last names) that had been buried at St.Clements in Bournemouth, which is where one of their children was buried.  Perhaps they didn't marry after all; this was one avenue I had not investigated.

Lo, there was one there that fit the bill: Elizabeth Fripp, aged 31 in 1875 - and she too lived on Victoria Rd. (the same road listed on church burial record for baby William Pitt Adams in 1878).  The date of burial for her was listed as August 30, 1875 - two months after William and Thomas were baptized.  [Family lore said that she died in childbirth, but as the only child they knew about was Thomas, they could have been a little off on this too.]

So, then I searched for Elizabeth Fripps born in 1843 or thereabouts, and the only close match I found was an Elizabeth JANE Fripp, born in Wimborne (spitting distance from Cranborne), and I started to think that this may at last be her.  The mother of  Elizabeth, Thomas, and William Adams was listed as an Elizabeth Jane.

Whatever the case turns out to be, this is literally the end of the line for me and E.J. Somebody, because there is nothing else that can be done without being in England to search records the old fashioned way and getting copies of death certificates.  And, she is not even an ancestor of ours, so this obsessing is getting me no further with adding to our own story.  Except, of course, that if she hadn't died, then Isabella would not have married George and family history would have been quite different, so she warrants a place in the story.