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Mary Ann Longton

Date Event Source
1854 Born in Southwark. Parents were Mary Ann Harrington and James Longton.

There is a birth registered Dec 1854 for a Mary Ann Longton, St Saviour Southwark.

1861 Census
1861 Living at 1 Ladds Court, St Saviour, Southwark. She was 6 (Scholar), living with her parents James (39, carman from wharf) and mother Mary Ann (25) and siblings John (2) and Ellen (8m), all born Southwark. Also 2 lodgers (an Irish labourer and his wife).  1861 Census
1867 Father James dies. Before 1868 the family must have moved from Southwark to Deptford (as Annie was born there)
1871 Aged 16, a dressmaker, living at home in 18 Greenfield St, Deptford with her widowed mother Mary Ann (38, formerly laundress, born Bow Middx.), brother John (13) and sisters Charlotte (8) and Amy/Annie (3, born Deptford).  1871 Census
20 Sept 1872 Married John Wallis / Wallace in Greenwich, Sept 1d 1138. They were married at the Parish Church of St Paul in Deptford, by banns. Her father James Longton was deceased. She was 18. Marriage Certificate
1872 Daughter Mary Ann born in Deptford. FreeBMD has two births in Greenwich: Dec 1872 (1d 799) and Jun 1873 (1d 790) 1901 Census

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1876 Son James born 1891 Census
1878 Son John born  1891 Census
1880 Daughter Ellen born. 1891 Census
1881 Not found, nor any of family. Can only assume they were somewhere in Deptford still. 1881 Census
1888 Did she die? There is a Mary Ann Wallace who dies in Greenwich, Jun 1888, aged 33.  1d 521
1890 Daughter Mary Ann marries  John James Jones at All Saints Church, Newington, London. She is 18 and can only make her mark. She is living at 8 Brockley Terrace, Walworth (same as John). Her father is named as John Wallace, labourer. He is not said to be deceased, but John's father is. Marriage Certificate
1900 Daughter Ellen married (Greenwich, Sept 1900) to either William Harris or Harry Stogden Sims. FreeBMD
1901 Son James Wallace (24, ? stone preparer) is living with his aunt Ida Ann Howard and husband Michael (carman?) in Deptford with his grandmother Mary Ann Longton (68, blind, Surrey) in 1 Hanlon St, Deptford.

Son John is living with his sister (Mary Ann Jones) and family.

1901 Census

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