1815 Birth:2986,1689 Birth year of 1815 calculated from age of 26 years in 1841 census enumeration; birthplace of Wickham Market, Suffolk taken from 1851 enumeration. Canadian death certificate1454 issued in 1934 for daughter Eleanor Sophia Fosdick Gray identified her parents as Matthew Fosdick and Eliza Kemp.

1841 British Census:2986
Enumerated 6 June 1841
Suffolk, England (Eyke Parish)
Henry Kemp •• 52, male, agricultural laborer, born in Suffolk
Martha •• 48, female, born in Suffolk
Eliza •• 26, female, dressmaker, born in Suffolk
Hannah •• 21, female, born in Suffolk

1848 Marriage Certificate:1698 Marriage solemnized by banns in the Parish of Melton in the County of Suffolk, 15 October 1848; Matthew Fosdick, age 30, bachelor, shoemaker, residing in Shottesham; father, Mark Fosdick, labourer; Eliza Kemp, age 27, spinster, residing in Melton; father, Henry Kemp, labourer; witnessed by John Mills and Ellen Symonds.

1851 British Census:1689
Suffolk, England (Village of Eyke)
Enumerated 30 March 1851
Mathew Fosdick •• head, married, age 35, cordwainer, born Eyke, Suffolk
Eliza •• wife, married, age 29, born Wickham Market, Suffolk
Mary •• daughter, age 2, born in Shottisham, Suffolk
Elaenor Sophia •• daughter, age 4 months, born in Eyke, Suffolk
Benjamin Kindred •• visitor, widower, age 49, farm laborer, born in Ipswich, Suffolk

1857 Death Registration: Eliza Fosdike, death, 1857 Q1 Jan-Mar, Woodbridge, Suffolk, v. 4a, p. 399 (Free BMD)

Death Between 1851-1861:2999 Husband Matthew Fosdick was listed as a widower in the 1861 census enumeration of Eyke, Suffolk, England.