George PALMER and Eliza ROSIER.

The ROSIER surname is believed to have come from France, when the Huguenots faced persecution they emigrated and many came to England. The 1881 census shows a large number of Rosiers in the Wiltshire/Berkshire area, in 1998 there was still a large number in that area.
In both the 1881 and 1998 surveys only 21 Rosiers per million population existed.
Eliza Rosier (bn 1827) had a niece Hannah Rosier (bn
6th October 1861) who married Lorenzo Edward Quelch who became Lord Mayor of Reading. He also found time, along with his brother, to organise strikes in the Bermondsey dockyards in the early 1900s, they belonged to the Social Democrats, the fore-runner to the Labour party.

St Michael and All Angels ~ the Inkpen Parish church.



George Palmer was baptised on the 22 March 1825 in Inkpen son of Charles Palmer and Sarah Ball who married on the 2 November 1822 in Burghclere. George was one of nine children.
Eliza Rosier was baptised on the 16 September 1827 in Kintbury, daughter of Thomas Rosier and Elizabeth Murfot, Eliza was one of ten traced children.
George married Eliza on the 14th October 1847 at the Parish Church, Kintbury.
The 1851 census shows George (labourer) and Eliza living at Geat Common Inkpen with Thomas and Eliza (3).
Great Common is still the address for Eliza (32) in the 1861 census, with three boys Thomas (10) a ploughboy (left school?), George (7) and Charles (3). Eliza is a widow as George was killed by lightning on the 16 Jun 1857 coming home from work. He was sheltering under a tree with a Joseph Buxsey who was also killed. A double gravestone appears in the Inkpen Parish churchyard for the two farm workers.
By 1871 Eliza was living at Upper Green Inkpen with George (17), Charles (13) and Sylvia (4) for company.
1881 and Eliza is living with a daughter Sylvia (14), Eliza is a seamstress, Sylvia's birth certificate lists her as Sylvia Honey Eliza and no father listed (dob 10 Nov 1866). A neighbour was a William Honey, possibly Sylvia's father.
The 1891 census shows that Eliza (tailoress) is living at Great Common with her daughter Sylvi (24 and a dressmaker), Sylvia's husband Sidney Cooper, a shoeing smith apprentice, and two grandchildren Daisy Sylvia Morris Palmer (4) and Florence Edith Cooper 8 months old and born in Inkpen. Daisy died in July 1891. Sidney and Sylvia had a total of eight children.
In 1901 Eliza (74) was still living with daughter Sylvia (34) and her family, Eliza died on the 26th April 1907 in Bolney Court Lodge, Harpsden, Oxfordshire aged 78.
Her informant was Sylvia, whose address was given as Rose Cottage Dorney, near Windsor.