Most of the online family trees state that Elizabeth Puckett (nee Tizzard) died in 1861. However, the 1851 census records list John Puckett as a widower (living with his daughter and son-in-law, Sarah and Richard Butt) and the 1852/1854 Australian migration records for their daughters, Sarah Butt (nee Puckett) and Elizabeth Crocker (nee Puckett), also state that their mother had already died. As she wasn’t living with her husband and younger children at the time of the 1841 census it seems likely that Elizabeth had died prior to that time. While there was an Elizabeth Puckett of about the right age recorded in the Parish of Preston in later years, she was described as a widow in 1851 and therefore from a different family.
Has anyone verified a date of death for Elizabeth Puckett (nee Tizzard)?