Elizabeth Wombwell and the Blight Family

Another daughter of Samuel Wombwell was Elizabeth,  a younger sister of Ann Wombwell, born in 1796 and dying in 1870. She married John Joseph Thomas Blight in 1821 in Holborn, and as we have already seen, the Blight family almost as a whole, were menagerie regulars. One Blight in particular though succeeded in indelibly marking herself into the history books. This was Ellen Blight, otherwise known as ‘The Lion Queen’. 

For sure, Ellen must have been one of the feistier of the Blight children, and when George’s first ‘lion queen’, Ellen Chapman moved on to join Sanger’s circus and indeed marry its proprietor, casting around for a replacement, the Wombwell eye fell on young Ellen. The outcome was tragic.

The death of Ellen Blight, x2 removed third cousin of Hetty Jane Owen.
From: http://vichist.blogspot.com.cy/2012_03_01_archive.html