Eliza Ann ALSTON [6815]

  General Notes:

At her fathers death Eliza, then aged 26, inherited and became managing owner of the family company together with similar control of the coal depot [until 1875] and the beach aggregates business. She also became principal shareholder of the Chalkwell tannery at Sittingbourne and a managing owner of the London based oyster merchants, Hole & Dodd.

1881 Census records Eliza as an oyster merchant employing 25 men & 3 boys born St Olaves LND.

Eliza Alston
Birth Date: 30 Jul 1831
Baptism Date: 28 Sep 1831
Baptism Place: Saint Olave Hart Street,London,London,England
Father: David Thomas Alston
Mother: Elizabeth
FHL Film Number: 557013

Eliza Hole
Age: 63
Birth Date: 1832
Death Date: 27 Jul 1895
Death Place: Milton-Next-Sittingbourne, Kent, England
FHL Film Number: 1473711
Reference ID: yr 1887-1895 p 400

Eliza was a legatee under James Harmer's will 1843

  Other Records

1. Census: England, 30 Mar 1851, Ingress Abbey Greenhithe Swanscombe KEN. Eliza is described as a visitor unmarried aged 19 born City of London HO107/1607

2. Census: England, 8 Apr 1861, Chalkwell House Milton KEN. Eliza is recorded as a wife aged 29 born St Olaves Hart St LON

3. Census: England, 2 Apr 1871, Chalkwell Milton KEN. Eliza is recorded as a wife aged 39 born MDX LND

4. Census: England, 3 Apr 1881, Chalkwell House Milton KEN. Eliza is recorded as a wife aged 49 an oyster merchant employing 25 men and 3 boys born St Olaves LON

5. Census: England, 5 Apr 1891, Lewisham LND. Eliza is recorded as head of house a widow aged 59 living on her own means born St Olaves LND

Eliza married John Binford HOLE [16561] [MRIN: 5922], son of Charles HOLE [16567] and Susan [20904], on 11 Jan 1853 in St Olave City London. (John Binford HOLE [16561] was born about 1827 in Greenham BRK and died on 4 Mar 1889 in Milton Kent.)