♀Esther Morgan

Esther Morgan (born 29 March 1824) was the daughter of a Westminster dyer and the first of at least seven children baptized to her parents, James Morgan (born about 1800) and Esther Neave (born about 1803). She was the great-grand-aunt of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), the sister of Emily Eliza Morgan (1838–1895), Roger’s great-grandmother.

Esther was born on 29 March 1824 and baptized on 18 July of that year at St James, Piccadilly, in Westminster, Middlesex, less than four months after her birth. The register gives the family’s abode as Bury Street and her father’s trade as dyer. Her sisters Mary Ann and Elizabeth and her brother James were baptized in the same church over the next eight years, all to the same parents, at the same address and in the same trade. By 1838 the family is found at York Street, on the Surrey side, where her sister Emily Eliza was baptized; the move from Bury Street is inferred from the names, trade and children, not shown by an address.

Esther is not among the children listed with her parents at Christchurch, Surrey, in the 1841 census, when she would have been about seventeen, and the records do not explain her absence. Her later life is not set down here.