Descendants of John Burgar (1742-1797)
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Eleanor Burgar was born in 1853 in Aston, Warwickshire.16 Civil Registration of Births reference is Mar 1853
V 6d p 234 - Aston, Warwickshire16
She died in 1910 at Warwick, Warwickshire.16 Civil Registration of Death reference is Sep 1910 V 6d p 277. Aged 57 - Warwick, Warwickshire.16 She was registered as Helen Burgar, not Eleanor Burgar.
She is seen in the 1861 Census living with her father.
We believe that we may have found her in the 1871 census living as a servant.
In 1881 she is living with her widowed sister, Sarah (Burgar) Cope.
Eleanor has been difficult to find. Part of the reason for this is that she never married and was a servant for most of her life. This means that she probably was not in control of putting her name on the Census returns. This would have been done by her employer, the head of the house. The result would be that he/she would probably not know the exact spelling of her name. Also her first name varies, she is born as Eleanor, crops up as Emily, and is Helen when she dies.
She might be working in as a servant in Handsworth, Staffordshire as a domestic servant.14
See possible sighting in the 1901 Census