Person’s Profile
Ellen (Brown) Laidlaw(1825/6-1860)
Description
former employee of Anne Sturges Bourne
Biography
CMY refers in 1871 to
Margaret Elizabeth Laidlaw, daughter of
William Laidlaw, Anne Sturges Bourne's farm bailiff. Margaret's mother is described as a former lady's maid. Ellen Brown (b. Cranbrook, Kent 1825/6) was lady's maid to Sturges Bourne at the time of the 1851 census. She married Laidlaw in the New Forest in 1852, and had several small children at the time of her death in the April quarter of 1860. [1851 census; death and marriage registers]
