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[terrysfamily]

It looks as though all 3 Kezia's are yours

Lancashire Birth indexes for the years: 1861

Surname: ENION
Forename(s) Kezia
Sub-District Hindley
Registers At Wigan & Leigh
Mother's Maiden Name BROWN
(LancashireBMD)

Burial: 10 Mar 1867 St David, Haigh, Lancashire, England
Kezia Enion -
Age: 5 years
Abode: Wigan
Grave: one Breadth
Buried by: J. Davidson Curate
Register: Burials 1864 - 1872, Page 67, Entry 532
Source: Original register at Wigan Archives
(LancashireOPC)

Lancashire Birth indexes for the years: 1871

Surname: ENION
Forename(s) Kezia
Sub-District Wigan
Registers At Wigan & Leigh
Mother's Maiden Name BROWN
(LancashireBMD)

Burial: 17 Nov 1872 St David, Haigh, Lancashire, England
Kezia Enion -
Age: 1 year
Abode: Aspull
Buried by: W. B. Bryan Vicar
Register: Burials 1864 - 1872, Page 199, Entry 1587
Source: Original register at Wigan Archives
(LancashireOPC)

Baptisms: 8 Sep 1878 St Stephen, Farnworth with Kearsley, Lancashire, England
Keziah Ennion - Child of Robert Ennion, (deceased) & Nancy
Abode: Gees Houses K M
Source: Registers held at Kearsley St Stephen
(LancashireOPC)

Burial: 5 May 1879 St Stephen, Farnworth with Kearsley, Lancashire, England
Keziah Ennion -
Age: 9 mth
Abode: Gees Houses
Source: Registers held at St Stephens
(LancashireOPC)

[terrysfamily]

These 2 births and burials should explain why the children didn't show up on any censuses. i.e. they were born and died between censuses

(LancashireOPC)
Register: Burials 1872 - 1876,
All Source Original registers at Wigan Archives

Baptisms: 24 May 1874 St David, Haigh, Lancashire, England
Nancy Enion - Child of Robert Enion & Nancy
Abode: Aspull
Occupation: Underlooker
Baptised by: W. B. Bryan Vicar
Page 164, Entry 1305

Burial: 24 Nov 1874 St David, Haigh, Lancashire, England
Nancy Enion -
Age: 6 mos.
Abode: Hindley
Buried by: W. B. Bryan Vicar
Page 57, Entry 429

Baptisms: 6 May 1873 St David, Haigh, Lancashire, England
Mary Ellen Enion - Child of Robert Enion & Nancy
Abode: Aspull
Occupation: Underlooker
Baptised by: W. B. Bryan Vicar
Page 146, Entry 1166

Burial: 18 Jan 1874 St David, Haigh, Lancashire, England
Mary Ellen Enion -
Age: 8 mths.
Abode: Aspull
Buried by: W. B. Bryan Vicar
Page 26, Entry 206

Terry

[Coromandel]

Kezia no. 2
. . . Her age on the census is consistent with her being the Kezia Enion whose birth was registered in the first quarter of 1871 in the Wigan district. She may well be the 1 year old Kezia Enion whose death was registered in the Wigan district in the last quarter of 1872 (though you would expect her to had her second birthday by then).

Oh dear, ignore this! Bad maths and bad grammar in the same sentence. The sun seems to have frazzled my brain.

[terrysfamily]

I can find only one marriage in Lancashire between an ENION and a BROWN and that's Robert and Nancy

Another couple of ENION children born with the mothers mane BROWN

Lancashire Birth indexes for the years: 1860

Surname: ENION
Forename(s) Jonathan
Sub-District Wigan
Registers At Wigan & Leigh
Mother's Maiden Name BROWN
(LancashireBMD)

Lancashire Death indexes for the years: 1860
Surname: ENION
Forename(s) Jonathan
Age 0
Sub-District Wigan
Registers At Wigan & Leigh

Now I know the son Jonathan who was killed in the mining accident was born in 1866 so it's not him. This must be yet another child who didn't make it to the census.

Lancashire Birth indexes for the years: 1870

Surname: ENION
Forename(s) George
Sub-District Wigan
Registers At Wigan & Leigh
Mother's Maiden Name BROWN
(LancashireBMD)

Burial: 29 Jun 1870 St David, Haigh, Lancashire, England
George Enion -
Age: 4 mths.
Abode: Wigan
Buried by: T. W. McCririck Curate
Register: Burials 1864 - 1872, Page 151, Entry 1206
Source: Original register at Wigan Archives

All the rest have now been accounted for.

[Coromandel]

I was looking for any newspaper reports connected with your Enions. Robert and his sons David (13) and Jonathan (12) are listed among the dead in some of the long reports about the 1878 pit disaster which you mentioned in your original post. I also came across a report of an 1873 omnibus accident in Wigan in which a Mrs Enion of Scot Lane, Aspull, and Robert Enion were injured. I can post details if you don't already have them.

P.S. my goodness, Terry, even more infant deaths: I have lost count of how many you have found now. Poor Nancy, she must have had such a tough life.

[linda.casson]

I would love details of the omnibus incident -thank you for all your help-I agree-what a tough life they had.
Regards Linda

[Coromandel]

I would love details of the omnibus incident

Here they are, from The Bradford Observer, 14 April 1873:

'SHOCKING OMNIBUS ACCIDENT NEAR WIGAN.
SIXTEEN PERSONS INJURED.
On Saturday afternoon an extraordinary accident occurred to an omnibus belonging to the Wigan and Aspull Omnibus Company. The vehicles of the company run from the centres of the townships of Haigh and Aspull down a steep and ill-paved road to Wigan, and the accident now recorded took place at one of the steepest and worst paved portions of the journey - a spot known as Evans' Brow, about three miles from the centre of the borough of Wigan. About two o'clock on Saturday a new omnibus drawn by three horses and heavily laden with colliers and their wives about to market at Wigan, reached the top of this hill and as the descent was commenced the brake snapped and the bus descended the brow at a fearful pace. At one of the bends of the road a wheel caught against the kerbstone and in a few seconds more the right hand corner of the vehicle came in contact with the projecting wall of cottage and a scene of terrible confusion was the result. A large portion of the wall struck was destroyed. The wood and iron work at the front of the 'bus was smashed, one wheel was shivered, and the body of the vehicle was turned over. The driver, who kept his position, and nearly every one of the many passengers, were more or less injured, as those outside were hurled violently to the ground and those inside experienced two very severe shocks....'

A list of casualties and their injuries follows, including 'Mrs. Enion, Scot Lane, Aspull, badly shaken'. She seems to have got off quite lightly: there were many broken broken bones and one small child was 'not expected to recover'. The reason I think it may be your Mrs Enion is that later in the article it goes on to say 'One man named Robert Enion jumped off just before the accident, and sustained severe bruises to the hands and face.' The bus had apparently been 'very much overcrowded'; the driver had even asked some of his passengers to get off while he went down the hill, 'but his advice was not taken'.'

[linda.casson]

Thanks for that-yes it must be them-it is so interesting to get snippets like this-it really does give an insight into their lives
Regards Linda