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Descendants of William Mansell

Generation No. 2

2. ELIZA² MANSELL (WILLIAM¹) was born October 06, 1863 in Brierly Hill, Staffordshire, England, and died May 17, 1943 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. She married BENJAMIN J. BILLINGHAM Abt. 1883 in Brierly Hill, Staffordshire, England, son of EDWARD BILLINGHAM and ELIZABETH PRESTON. He was born March 03, 1864 in Staffordshire, England, and died February 09, 1928 in Mars BTL, Pa..

Notes for ELIZA MANSELL:
Benjamin Billingham and Eliza Mansell were born in England, and married at Brierly Hill, Staffordshire, in 1883. They had seven children who survived infancy, one of whom died at ten.

Lizzy and Mattie were born in England. Bertha was the first child born in the United States. She had a twin brother, Clarence, who died after three days. The other children who gre to adulthood were Sadie, Minnie and Walter.

Benjamin was very strict, and too poor to allow any of the girls to go to school beyond the eighth grade. They had to get married or go to work. In time, they all married. Benjamin worked in the steel mills untill he retired and bought a little farm outside Pittsburgh.

It was fun for the grandchildren to visit them, because their house was an old homestead, and the only water in the house came from the hand pump at the kitchen sink. The bathroom was a two-hole outhouse. Grandmother had to cook all the meals on a wood-burning stove. The "refrigerator" was the dirt cellar deep under the house. At night, the grandchildren walked to the neighbor's house to get fresh milk, eggs and vegetables.

A short time after they moved to the farm, Benjamin had a heart attack and died before the doctor could arrive. Eliza sold the farm and lived with her daughter Minnie. She often went to California to visit Bertha. She made all of her clothes from the same pattern: a long black dress with a little white collar.

Eliza never lost her English accent. She always dropped the letter "H", so she would say, "Where is me 'at?" for "Where is my hat?" She would say to the children, "Be off with you", and we knew it was time to leave.
(Personal account of Margaret Lucille (Lindsay) Robertson)

More About ELIZA MANSELL:
Burial: Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Notes for BENJAMIN J. BILLINGHAM:
Benjamin worked in the mills when first cam to Pittsburgh. Sent for Elizabeth, and the two girls, Martha and Lizzie. Retired to a small farm in Mars, Pennsylvania and died there. Came to American with 2 of his 4 brothers (Jim and Clyde?). 2 of these brothers went to Scotland or Australia (names not known) - (Genealogy of Ralph Boden from the research of Jim Robertson)

More About BENJAMIN J. BILLINGHAM:
Burial: Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Children of ELIZA MANSELL and BENJAMIN BILLINGHAM are:

3.	i.	ELIZABETH³ BILLINGHAM, b. May 01, 1884, Brierly Hill, Staffordshire, England; d. October 31, 1918, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
4.	ii.	MARTHA MARIA BILLINGHAM, b. May 28, 1886, Brierly Hill, Stafford, England; d. November 24, 1973, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
5.	iii.	BERTHA AMELIA BILLINGHAM, b. November 23, 1888, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; d. May 27, 1975, Glendale, Los Angeles County, California.
	iv.	CLARENCE BILLINGHAM, b. November 23, 1888, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; d. November 26, 1888.
	v.	EMILY JANE BILLINGHAM, b. July 15, 1891, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; d. February 19, 1902.
6.	vi.	SARAH ANNE BILLINGHAM, b. February 08, 1894, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania USA; d. May 20, 1962, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania USA.
	vii.	MINNIE LOUISA BILLINGHAM, b. June 22, 1896, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; d. February 15, 1982; m. JOE FAMOUS, Abt. 1915.
	viii.	WALTER BENJAMIN BILLINGHAM, b. November 07, 1898, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; d. January 18, 1980, Hartford Connecticut; m. BERTHA SHEA, Abt. 1919; b. May 03, 1901; d. January 1987, Hartford Connecticut.

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