Eleanor Helena Brigitta Berwick

GEDCOM Note

Thomas Berwick's wife Helena "Hypolita" Brigitta Wallace (167) was born in Dublin, Ireland on August 14, 1748. Her parents took her to Scotland as a small child and finally to Pensacola FL when she was four years old. They were married on her 20th birthday, August 14, 1768 in Charles Town, SC. Thomas' death left her with six children under twenty. Helen returned for a few years to their previous residence on the Bayou Teche, which she named Ellerslie after her Scottish home, and may have married William Newman. Historical records in various languages list her as Helen Ouzez, Elena Ouzez, Helene Wales, Elenore Wallis and Elena Bois. She died October 15, 1815. Four years later, her son Thomas told explorer James Leander Cathcart that she was buried on the altar of an thirty-foot-high Indian mound on the family farm in Morgan City, LA.