Elizabeth Rothwell is the sixth daughter of Henry Rothwell and Alice Hacking. She was born 16 July 1846 in Blackburn, Lancashire. Census records have her living with the family all the way through to the 1871 census but I have not faound her in any records in Blackburn beyond that date.
I did then start looking farther out and found this marriage record:
It has an Elizabeth Rothwell marrying a William Sutton on 6 May 1876 in Eccles, Lancashire. Unfortunately the marriage record does not give an age or profession, so I can't verify that information. As well, the location isn't where I would expect it to be in Eccles, Lancashire.
The one positive as far as the connections ithe information about the father - the father is named Henry Rothwell and his profession is a cart driver. So that and the name Elizabeth Rothwell match.
So, it's a possibility that this is the correct Elizabeth Rothwell in the marriage record, but there's not a lot to go on. I'm going to treat it as a hypothesis to see if there are any other records that I might find to either prove or disprove the hypothesis.

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