Person:Mary Greenslade (3)

Mary Greenslade was baptised at Shobrooke in Devon on 21st April 1822, daughter of Susannah Greenslade. It is not clear what happened to Susannah; she may have died in 1826, or she may have married a dairy farmer named William May in 1829. Either way, Mary appears to have lived with her grandparents, Richard and Mary Greenslade.

Sadly Mary died as a young woman on 19th January 1841, aged probably 18 or 19, having been suffering with dropsy. Her grandfather Richard Greenslade was the informant for her death.

1. ↑ Church of England. Shobrooke Parish Registers. (Exeter: Devon Record Office).

   BAPTISMS solemnized in the Parish of Shobrooke in the County of Devon in the Year 1822
   No.	When Baptized	Child's Christian Name	Parent's Name		Abode	Quality, Trade, or Profession	By whom the Ceremony was performed
   			Christian	Surname
   222	April 21st	Mary D[aughte]r of base child	Susannah	Greenslade	Shobrooke	Labourer	Rich[ar]d Ellicombe, Curate

2. ↑ Deaths index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

   Registration District Crediton Union
   1841 Death in the Sub-district of Cheriton Fitzpaine in the County of Devon
   No.	When and where died	Name and surname	Sex	Age	Occupation	Cause of death	Signature, description and residence of informant	When registered	Signature of registrar
   357	Nineteenth of January 1841 at Shobrooke	Mary Greenslade	female	20 years [1820/1]	Single Woman	Dropsy	The Mark of X Richard Greenslade Present at Death Shobrooke	Twenty third of January 1841	William Morgan Registrar

   This death has been linked to the Mary baptised in 1822 on the basis that it is in the same parish, of roughly the right age, and the informant for the death was Richard Greenslade, which was the name of the Mary baptised in 1822's grandfather.