Born in Oxford, Massachusetts, United States
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died [date unknown]
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Biography
Lizzie was born in Oxford, Massachusetts, in 1883, the daughter of Charles and Emma Blanding. (Her birth record calls her "Lizzie Jane Benway" and shows her mother as Emma J. Blanding; father unknown.[1])
In 1896, she is listed as a resident at the Oxford Poor Farm. She was 12 years old and the only child.[2]
Lizzie was 16 years old when she was transferred from the State Almshouse at Tewksbury to the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded in Waltham. She remained a resident there for 2 years,[3] until she was removed by the Board of Charity, being deemed "improved".[4]
She married in 1911 to Patrick Bolger, a steamfitter, son of Joseph and Alice (Lane) Bolger.[5] Patrick died in 1919. At the time of the 1920 census, she was a servant living in the household of Marshal Barry of Worcester.[6]
Sources
- ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQDK-J51 : 10 February 2018), Lizzie Jane Benway, 28 Oct 1883
- ↑ Annual Report of the Town of Oxford for the Year Ending March 1, 1896], p. 36
- ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9T2-1BM : accessed 19 July 2019), Lizzie Blanding, Massachusetts School for the Feeble Minded in Waltham city, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
- ↑ Admissions for the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded, 1900, Transcribed by E. Childs, 2019, from Mass. Dept. of Mental Health - Institional Registers: Mass. School for the Feeble-Minded, FamilySearch.org
- ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N4FX-M9M : 25 May 2018), Patrick E Bolger and Lizzie J Blanding, 15 Feb 1911
- ↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFSS-VPK : accessed 19 July 2019), Lizzie Bolger in household of Marshal Barry, Worcester Ward 3, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
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