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Facts and Events
Name |
Mary Ann Forsey |
Gender |
Female |
Birth[1] |
18 Oct 1810 |
Winsham, Somerset, England |
Christening[1] |
20 Oct 1811 |
Winsham, Somerset, EnglandIndependent Chapel |
Marriage |
8 Jan 1833 |
Crewkerne, Somerset, Englandto Edmund Wilkins Hutchings |
Census[2] |
6 Jun 1841 |
Crewkerne, Somerset, EnglandWoolminstone |
Census[3] |
30 Mar 1851 |
Winsham, Somerset, EnglandWhatley |
Census[4] |
7 Apr 1861 |
Northover, Somerset, EnglandIn Street |
Census[5] |
2 Apr 1871 |
Broadwindsor, Dorset, EnglandLittlewindsor or Swilletts |
Burial[7] |
24 Oct 1872 |
Broadwindsor, Dorset, England |
Childhood
Mary Ann Forsey was born on 18th October 1810 and baptised just over a year later at the Independent Chapel in Winsham, Somerset. She was the daughter of Sarah Forsey, formerly Hawkins, and her husband Francis Forsey, a labourer. She appears to have been the fourth of five children. In 1821 Mary's mother Sarah died, when Mary was still only ten years old. Two years later her father married Elizabeth Pye, who thus became Mary's stepmother. A half-brother for Mary, Samuel, was born in 1824.
Adulthood
Mary was married on 8th January 1833, aged 22, to an agricultural labourer named Edmund Wilkins Hutchings. They married at Crewkerne, which is where he was from, and initially settled in the parish of Crewkerne, living in the hamlet of Woolminstone to the west of the town itself. Some of their children's baptisms specify that they lived in Woolminstone, and they also appear there in the 1841 census, living with Edmund's father. Mary and Edmund appear to have had seven children together between 1833 and 1850. The first five children were born in the parish of Crewkerne, after which the family moved back to Mary's native Winsham, where the other two children were born. The 1851 census finds Mary and Edmund living in the hamlet of Whatley in Winsham parish. Edmund was then working as a farmer, and Mary's occupation was given as a farmer's wife.
Some time between 1851 and 1861 the family moved some distance away from the Crewkerne and Winsham areas of south Somerset. The 1861 census finds the family living at Northover, just outside the town of Ilchester in central Somerset. They moved again between 1861 and 1871, back closer to Crewkerne and Winsham, but this time just over the county boundary into Dorset, where the lived at Littlewindsor in the parish of Broadwindsor. The 1871 census finds Edmund working at a farm bailiff. They also had their granddaughter Kate May (their daughter Ann's daughter) living with them on census night.
Mary died in 1872, when she was said to be 61 years old. She was buried at Broadwindsor on 24th October 1872, suggesting she died very close to what would have been her 62nd birthday. Edmund outlived her by nineteen years, in which time he went to live with his daughter Ann and her family, who had moved to Plymouth in Devon.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Births & baptisms register, in Winsham Independent Chapel. Parish Registers of Winsham Independent Chapel. (London: The National Archives)
Class RG4; Piece 2934.
Register of Baptisms Wm Durnford Pastor Mary Ann Forsey, Daughter of Francis and Sarah Forsey was Born Octo[be]r 18th 1810 and Baptized Octo[be]r 20th 1811
Whilst no named connection has been found linking the family of the adult Mary who married Edmund Hutchings to the family of the Mary baptised in 1810, it is considered that the evidence is sufficiently compelling that it must be her. The adult Mary consistently claimed to have been born around 1810 at Winsham. No evidence has been found to suggest that the Mary born in 1810 died young, married someone else or moved away. It seems highly unlikely that one Mary Ann Forsey would disappear and another with the same age and birthplace appear in her place; we therefore conclude she is the same person.
- ↑ England. 1841 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom: The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.) Class HO107; Piece 940; Book 1; Folio 20; Page 9, 6 Jun 1841.
Address: Woolminstone, Crewkerne, Somerset William Hutchings, male, 60 [1776-81], Ag Lab, born in county Edmund Hutchings, male, 30 [1806-11], Ag Lab, born in county Mary Ann Hutchings, female, 25 [1811-16], born in county Ann Hutchings, female, 7 [1833/4], born in county William Hutchings, male, 3 [1837/8], born in county
- ↑ England. 1851 Census Returns for England and Wales. (
Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom: The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.) Class HO107; Piece 1928; Folio 208; Page 7, 30 Mar 1851.
Address: Whatley, Winsham, Somerset Edwin Hutchings, head, married, male, 40 [1810/11], Farmer, b. Crewkerne, Somerset Mary Ann Hutchings, wife, married, female, 39 [1811/12], Farmer Wife, b. Winsham, Somerset Marey [sic] Hutchings, daughter, unmarried, female, 18 [1832/3], Farmer Daur, b. Crewkerne, Somerset Ann Hutchings, daughter, unmarried, female, 16 [1834/5], Farmer Daur, b. Crewkerne, Somerset William Hutchings, son, unmarried, male, 13 [1837/8], Farmer Son, b. Crewkerne, Somerset Alfred Hutchings, son, unmarried, male, 9 [1841/2], Farmer Son, b. Crewkerne, Somerset G.H. Hutchings, son, unmarried, male, 6 [1844/5], Farmer Son, b. Crewkerne, Somerset Herbert Hutchings, son, unmarried, male, 3 [1847/8], Farmer Son, b. Winsham, Somerset J. Hutchings, son, unmarried, male, 8 months [1850], Farmer Son, b. Winsham, Somerset
- ↑ England. 1861 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom: The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.) Class RG9; Piece 1645; Folio 27; Page 8, 7 Apr 1861.
Address: In Street, Northover, Somerset Edmund Hutchings, head, married, male, 49 [1811/12], Ag Lab, b. Crewkerne, Somerset Mary A. Hutchings, wife, married, female, 48 [1812/13], b. Winsham, Somerset Henry Hutchings, son, unmarried, male, 16 [1844/5], Ag Lab, b. Crewkerne, Somerset John Hutchings, son, unmarried, male, 10 [1850/1], b. Winsham, Somerset
- ↑ England. England and Wales. 1871 Census Schedules. (
Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom: The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.) Class RG10; Piece 2025; Folio 24; Page 15, 2 Apr 1871.
Address: Littlewinsor and Swilotts, Broadwinsor, Dorset Edmund Hutchings, head, married, male, 55 [1815/6], Farm Baliff, b. Crewkerne, Somerset Mary Anne Hutchings, wife, married, female, 54 [1816/7], b. Winsham, Somerset Kate May, granddaughter, female, 8 [1862/3], b. Devonport, Devon
The top of this census page says "Littlewinsor and Swilotts" (i.e. Littlewindsor and Swilletts to use the modern spellings) but there is nothing to distinguish which families were at the hamlet of Littlewindsor and which were at the hamlet of Swilletts. The Hutchings were probably at Littlewindsor, because that was given as their abode when Mary died the following year.
- Deaths index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).
d. Mary Ann HUTCHINGS, December Quarter 1872, Beaminster Registration District, Volume 5a, page 231, aged 61 [1810/11]
- ↑ Burials register, in Church of England. Parish Registers of Broadwindsor, Dorset. (Dorchester: Dorset Record Office).
BURIALS in the Parish of Broadwindsor in the County of Dorset in the Year 1872 No.480 Name: Mary Ann Hutchings Abode: Little Windsor When buried: Oct[obe]r 24 Aged: 61 [1810/11] By whom the Ceremony was performed: S.C. Malon, Vicar
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