Elizabeth Longbottom (b1839)

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Elizabeth Longbottom, the daughter of Thomas Richardson Longbottom and Ann Pegg, was born on 4 Aug 1839, and baptised three weeks later, on 25 Aug 1839, at St Werburgh, Derby.

At the age of 19 she married Andrew Higinbotham. Andrew was much older than Elizabeth. It would seem that they met through Elizabeth's father's work - Andrew was a bookbinder by trade, as was Elizabeth's father.

Elizabeth too worked in this trade - on two census returns she is a book folder or book sewer. It can be assumed that she was probably folding and sewing books even when this wasn't recorded on the census returns - as women's work often wasn't recorded.

Though she spent the first 30 years or so of her life in Derby, living close to the printing offices, she and Andrew later moved to Leeds.

Elizabeth outlived Andrew by many years. I've not found the record of her death, as yet, but know she was alive at the time of the 1901 census, still living in Leeds. Her son, also Andrew, was by then working in the printing/publishing trade too, as a printer compositor.