Elizabeth Richardson

Elizabeth Richardson

• Father: John Richardson
• Mother: Unknown (?)

• Elizabeth Richardson was born circa 1855 in Carlisle, Cumberland, England.
• She married Joseph Mitchell Graham, son of Richard Graham, on 26 December 1878 in Carlisle, Cumberland, England, or the 22nd.
• Joseph Mitchell Graham and Elizabeth Richardson appeared in the British census of 3 April 1881 in St. Andrews & St. Leonards, Fife, Scotland, at 85 Market Street. Other members of the household included John Graham.
• Joseph Mitchell Graham and Elizabeth Richardson appeared in the British census of 5 April 1891 in Dryfesdale, Dumfries, Scotland, at 43 Sydney Place. Other members of the household included John Graham, Walter Graham, Jane B. Graham, Joseph Henry Graham, Richard Graham and Mary Gale Graham.
• Joseph Mitchell Graham and Elizabeth Richardson appeared in the British census of 31 March 1901 in Lockerbie, Dryfesdale, Dumfries, Scotland, at 61 Sydney Place. Other members of the household included Walter Graham, Jane B. Graham, Joseph Henry Graham, Richard Graham, Mary Gale Graham, Harold Graham, Bessie Graham and William M. Graham.
• A photographic portrait was made, about 1906, of Joseph and Elizabeth Richardson Graham and their family.
• Elizabeth Richardson arrived in the Port of New York on 23 May 1909, accompanied by Jane B. Graham, Richard Graham, Mary Gale Graham, Bessie Graham, William M. Graham, Walter Graham and Mary Graham aboard the Anchor Line SS Caledonia, having departed Glasgow on the 15th. Elizabeth's husband and son Harold preceding the rest of the family, having arrived in New York about four months earlier aboard the same ship.
• Joseph Mitchell Graham and Elizabeth Richardson appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Manhattan, New York, at 309 West 116th Street. Other members of the household included Jane B. Graham, Richard Graham, Mary Gale Graham, Harold Graham, Bessie Graham and William M. Graham.
• Joseph Mitchell Graham and Elizabeth Richardson appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Teaneck Township, Bergen County, New Jersey, at Hillside Street. Other members of the household included Bessie Graham and William M. Graham.
• Elizabeth Richardson became a widow at the circa 1925 death of her husband Joseph Mitchell Graham.
• Elizabeth Richardson arrived in the Port of New York on 12 September 1926, accompanied by Bessie Graham and Jean Wilson aboard the Anchor Line SS Transylvania, having departed Glasgow on the 4th. Eight-year-old Jean Wilson visited Scotland with her grandmother and Aunt Bessie Graham.
• Elizabeth Richardson appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Morris Plains, Morris County, New Jersey, at Greystone Park Hospital.

• Last Edited: 5 Mar 2013