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Elizabeth Whittingham Fowler was born in Malmesbury, Wiltshire County, England. Her birth record, a copy of which was obtained from the General Register Office, shows that she was born on May 09, 1845. The event was registered on June 19th of that year. Elizabeth's parents were John Fowler, a shoemaker, and Martha Callaway (or "Calloway") Fowler. [Birth Entry, No. 271, for Elizabeth Whittingham Fowler (Register of Births in Malmesbury, Wiltshire County, England; copy issued on September 13, 2002, at the General Register Office, BXBZ 636462).] Malmesbury church records show that Elizabeth's baptism didn't take place until July 20, 1856, the same day as the baptisms of her six brothers (Samuel, John Matthew, Frederick, Joseph, Frank, and William Vincent) (Elizabeth W. Fowler's Brothers). [Bishop's transcripts for Malmesbury, Wiltshire County, England (Salt Lake City, Utah: The Genealogical Society of Utah, 1985-1989), FHL BRITISH Film 1596128 (Item 2).]

Although the year of Elizabeth's emigration from England to the United States is uncertain, an entry for an "Elizabeth W. Fowler" appears on an 1863 manifest for the S.S. Edinburgh. The ship sailed from Liverpool and arrived on December 24, 1863, at the Port of New York. This Elizabeth was the approximate age, nineteen years old, that my Elizabeth would have been. My correlation works well because Elizabeth married William Munson Weaver about 1865. In addition, William R. Weaver, the second son and third child of Elizabeth and William M., was born on December 03, 1870, in New York City. [Lucius E. Weaver, History and Genealogy of a Branch of the Weaver Family (Rochester, N. Y.: The Du Bois Press, 1928; facsimile reprint, Salem, Mass.: Higginson Book Company), 508, 579.] During the 1870s, Elizabeth and William M. moved their family to Colorado and spent a number of years in and around South Pueblo and Denver. In 1882, the family returned to New York City. Elizabeth died on January 20, 1899, on Macon Street, Brooklyn. [City of New York, Borough of Brooklyn, Death Certificate No. 1342.] She was buried on January 23, 1899, in Woodlawn Cemetery, the Bronx, New York. [Woodlawn Cemetery interment records.]

Elizabeth W. Fowler's Brothers

[Most of the following information is supported by General Register Office copies of Malmesbury birth, marriage, and death entries.]

• Samuel Fowler (b. June 09, 1838, Westport, Malmesbury; m. August 10, 1859, in Malmesbury, Frances Caroline Jacobs; d. June 08, 1874, Malmesbury)
  
  
• John Matthew Fowler (b. March 12, 1840, Westport, Malmesbury; m. October 08, 1865, in New York, New York, Margaret Shaw; d. July 24, 1915, New York)
  
  
• Frederick Fowler (b. March 29, 1842, Malmesbury; marriage and death unknown)
  
  
• Joseph Fowler (b. May 22, 1848, Malmesbury; marriage and death unknown)
  
  
• Frank Fowler (b. May 24, 1850, Malmesbury; d. September 03, 1862, Malmesbury)
  
  
• William Vincent Fowler (b. December 30, 1852, Malmesbury; marriage and death unknown)

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