| Elizabeth Ann Stebbings was living with her uncle Thomas and his wife Rachel as early as 1861 and continued to live with them for the rest of their lives, first at Crown Hill then Knights Hill, Lambeth and later at Norwood Villa, Foots Cray, Sidcup, Kent.
When Thomas died in 1897, he left £1000 and 17 freehold cottages on Willow Rd, Sydenham to his niece Elizabeth (compared with £250 which he gave to each of his other nieces and nephews).
Elizabeth continued to live at Norwood Villa after Rachel died in 1907.
When Elizabeth herself died in 1826, her estate was about £20,000. This also included 7 cottages in Shirley Road, Sidcup which she had inherited from her father. The bulk of her fortune went to her late brother Thomas' children who were in New Brunswick, Canada.
Thomas Stebbings seems to have emigrated to Canada between 1871 and 1881. He married Annie Goodwin and they had 4 children: Charles Frederick born in 1881, William George born in 1883 (and died in 1918), Elizabeth Augusta born in 1889 and Winnifred Goodwin born about 1891. Thomas died before his sister Elizabeth, but Elizabeth's will left her £1,000, also Elizabeth's gold watch and chain, and all her wearing apparel and clothes. At this time she was living at Weldon Street, Sackville, New Brunswick. The three surviving children were the main beneficiaries of Elizabeth's will, each receiving £500 and a third of the residue of Elizabeth's estate. Elizabeth also received a 5 stone diamond ring and Elizabeth's piano and Winnifred received a 3 stone diamond ring.
Charles Frederick Stebbings was a wheelwright in Norfolk in 1871, and in 1881 he was a carpenter, living with the Green family at Caleb Cottages, Foots Cray, Sicup, Kent. He married Ellen Rebecca Humphrey in 1884 and in 1891 they were living at Longlands Cottage, Footscray and Charles was a builder. Although his sister and brother both received bequests from Thomas Garnar's will (as did all Thomas' nephews and nieces), Charles is not mentioned in Thomas' will. Charles died in 1899 aged 44. He does not appear to have had any children as in 1901 his widow Ellen was living with her 83 year old mother Kate Humphrey at Shirley Cottage, Foots Cray. This may have been one of the cottages on Shirley Road that was left to Elizabeth by her father, Frederick Stebbings.
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