Elizabeth Coles, widow of Benjamin Coles, clerk with the East India Company, died of old age at 2 Hawthorndean Place, Limehouse on November 7, 1849, aged 77 years.

The above information was provided to the registrar, Adolphus Barnett, on November 9, 1849 by M. Skene of 6 Lamberts Terrace, Poplar, who was present at the death (1).

Elizabeth is my 5 × great grandmother.
It is probable that M. Skene was Mary Amelia Coe, wife of Arthur Skene and the mother-in-law of Elizabeth’s son Henry Boyde Coles.

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1. England and Wales, death certificate for Elizabeth Coles, died 7 November 1849; citing 2/357/406, December quarter 1849, Stepney registration district, Limehouse sub-district; General Register Office, Southport.