The family lived in Palestine Place on the Cambridge Road in Bethnal Green, an area leased to the "London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews" (a Jewish Christian missionary society now known as the Church's Ministry Among Jewish People). McCaul was appointed Warburton Lecturer of Lincoln's Inn in 1837. In 1843 the Bishop of London offered him the vicarage of St James Duke's Place, a parish with 800 Jewish inhabitants and only 100 Christians. Elizabeth was an eyewitness to the Burning of Parliament in 1834 and the coronation procession of Queen Victoria in 1837.