Child of John Thomas and Elizabeth Wigham

01. Sarah Elizabeth Wigham (Lizzie)

1859-04-29 b. Northumberland Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland censuses; The British Friend; Brooker Pedigrees (Society of Genealogists Library)
1861 of 59-61 Northumberland Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, living with parents and one general servant TNA: RG 9/3821 f78 p4
1870-04-16 of Hartford House, Jamaica Mosscroft visitors' book
1871 of Newtown House, Caldewgate, Carlisle, Cumberland, living with grandmother, aunt, and two servants RG 11/5222 f92 p40
1884-03-05 m. Eugene Berkeley Baker (1852–1896, b. Wellfleet, Massachusetts, s. of Reuben Rich and Mary Cobb (Atwood) Baker), at Rural Hill, Jamaica The Friend; Brooker Pedigrees; 1900 United States Federal Census; Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records; Jamaica, Civil Registration Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1878–1930; MW Snow; son's passport application
Children: John Wigham (1887 – after 1942), Eugene Burkley (1889–1967), Mary Elizabeth (1890 – after 1942), Helen Caroline (1894 – after 1900), all born in Jamaica Brooker Pedigrees; 1900 United States Federal Census; draft registration card; passport application; 1940 United States Federal Census; Jamaica Births and Baptisms, 1752–1920," index, FamilySearch, Sarah Elizabeth Wigham Baker in entry for Eugene Burkley Baker, 01 Feb 1889; citing Williams Field, Port Antonio, Portland, Jamaica, reference 890; FHL microfilm 1,389,539; Find a Grave
1887 son born at Port Antonio, Portland, Jamaica US naturalization records index
1889-02-01 son born at Williams Field, Port Antonio, Portland, Jamaica; husband a fruit merchant Jamaica civil birth registration
1889-09-03 with her merchant husband and their two children, arrived Boston, Massachusetts from Port Antonio, aboard the SS Marmion, as visitors, travelling with an 11-year-old servant and 7 pieces of baggage Boston passenger lists
1890 daughter born at Port Antonio, Portland, Jamaica Jamaica, civil registration birth, marriage, and death records
1894
1898 immigrated to the USA 1900 United States Federal Census
1900 widow, living with her children, a Jamaican servant, and a boarder, in Wellfleet town, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA; owned her house, free of mortgage 1900 United States Federal Census
1900-06-11 with her children, arrived Boston, Massachusetts, from Port Morant, Jamaica, aboard the Admiral Farragut; good health Massachusetts, Passenger and Crew Lists
1910 with her family, living on her own income, in her mortgaged house at 52 Central Street, Newton Ward 4, Middlesex, Massachusetts 1910 United States federal census
1911 widow of Eugene B, of 52 Central, Newton Newton [1911] Directory
  of Amburndale, near Boston, Massachusetts Brooker Pedigrees
1920 living with her son and daughter at 1422 Commonwealth Avenue, Ward 25, Precinct 4, Boston, Massachusetts; alien, though her son John was now naturalised; no occupation 1920 United States Federal Census
1930 living in an apartment at 15 Queensberry Street, Ward 5, Boston City, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; with her is a Josephine E. Baker, b. in England cal 1888, single, described as her daughter. Josephine is not otherwise accounted for. 1930 United States Federal Census


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