When I wrote “she must have had a tough time, I should have written “Alice must have had a tough time.....”

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1871

Ancestry’s transcription:

Name: Alice Caveen
Age: 24
Estimated birth year: 1847
Relation: Inmate
Gender: Female
Where born: Liverpool Lancashire England
Civil Parish: Walton on the Hill
Ecclesiastical parish: Walton St Mary
County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England
Registration district: West Derby
Sub-registration district: Walton
ED, institution, or vessel: West Derby Union Workhouse
Household schedule number: 1
Piece: 3835
Folio: 57
Page Number: 5
Household Members:

amongst a long list of names:
Caveen Alice unm 24 domestic servant b Liverpool
Caveen Robert 2 weeks b Walton on the Hill.

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The “tough time” relates to the fact that during her pregnancy she must have felt desolate. Her father and stepmother had retired to the IOM, her sisters Isabella and Elizabeth were both in Toxteth Park, married with very young children, and sister Jane was in domestic service. I haven’t discovered what happened to her 2 Manx-born brothers, John b 1837 and Robert b 1840. Perhaps the workhouse was Alice’s only option.

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Alice’s sister Jane:

1871
29 Beaumont St, Toxteth Park

Ancestry’s mistranscription (Careger should be Caveen):

NameAge

Catherine L French 35
John Low 32
Jane Careger 23
Walter Scott 28

notes:
Jane Caveen 23 unm general servant domestic b LP
Same address she gave at her marriage to Robert Lyon in 1872.

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Alice’s sister Isabella:

1871
Eden St, Tx Pk

NameAge

William Wilkinson 27
Isabelle Wilkinson 27
Elizth J Wilkinson 5
Sarah Wilkinson 3
William J Wilkinson 16/12

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Elizabeth Caveen nee Lewin with daughter Jane:

1881

7 Thomas St, Tx Pk

Ancestry’s transcription (Cavison should be Caveen):

Name Age
Robert Lyon 32
Jane Lyon 32
Margaret M. Lyon 5
William Lyon 3
Jane Lyon
Elizabeth Cavison 67
Mary A. Collister 78
John Lyon 7

notes:
Elizabeth Caveen mother in law widow b IOM (nee Lewin)

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Cemetery Register (Kirkdale, Lancs):
Name: Eliz Caveen
Age: 83
Record Type: Burial
Birth Date: abt 1807
Death Date: abt 1890
Burial Date: 26 Nov 1890
Burial Place: Liverpool, Lancashire, England

Image shows: last residence 41 Bianca St, Bootle.

Other online trees have decided that this Nov 1890 death was Elizabeth Caveen alias McLaughlan nee Hampton, but I suspect that the following burial / probate records were more likely to be Elizabeth nee Hampton’s:

CAVEEN, Elizabeth 78 Braddan 10 Mar 1889

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Name: Elizabeth Caveen
Death Date: 7 Mar 1889
Death Place: Isle of Man, England
Probate Date: 21 Aug 1889
Probate Registry: Principal Registry

Image shows:
“late of Mount Rule, Kk Braddan, IOM, widow, who died 7 March 1889 at Mount Rule, was proved at the Principal Registry by Thomas Caveen of 47 Low Hill, Liverpool, licensed victualler, the nephew the sole executor.”

This executor Thomas Caveen was b 1858 Castletown, son of Thomas Caveen and Mary Walker.

Jean C