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Name:
Elizabeth JENS
Sex:
Female
Father:
Mother:
Birth:
1866
The June 1870 census lists her age as 4 years old which puts her birth year between June 1865 and June 1866. She is listed as being born in Wisconsin. The June 1880 census lists her age as 14 with a calculated birth year between June 1865 and June 1866. This census also list her birthplace as Wisconsin and her parents birthplaces as Mecklenburg.
Residence:
1870 (age 3-4)
Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin1
She was living in a household with two adult males, William and Wilhelmine, most assuredly her parents and five other siblings.
Residence:
1880 (age 13-14)
Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin2
Occupation:
1880 (age 13-14)
By 1880, Elizabeth was earning enough income sewing to be considered by the census enumerators to be employed.<i> "Children "too young to take part in production" or at school were not considered gainfully employed, but children who earned money "regularly by labor, contributing to the family support, or appreciably assisting in mechanical or agricultural industry" were to be reported with an occupation." (Ruggles and Menard 1994)</i>
Death:
On the 1880 census she is listed as Elsie.
1870 United States Federal Census, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, population, Town of Milwaukee, p.152A, 431, William Jens; National Archives and Records Adminstration Film T132.
1880 United States Federal Census, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, population, Town of Milwaukee, p.132D, 72, William Jens; National Archives and Records Adminstration Film T9.
IPUMS website "Occupational Coding in the 1880 Public Use Microdata Sample";