Person:Ann Dean (10)

Ann Maria Dean was born on 22nd August 1818 and baptised the following month at Great Gaddesden in Hertfordshire. She was the daughter of a straw plaiter called Elizabeth Dean, formerly Hobbs, and her husband James Dean, a labourer. She appears to have been known by her middle name.

Maria's father died in 1840.

The 1841 census finds Maria living with her mother and brother at Gaddesden Row. Later that year, Maria was caught in a fight between her brother and another man in a beer shop on Gaddesden Row, and the other man was convicted of assaulting her.

Maria never married. She appears in the 1851 and 1861 censuses living with her mother in Great Gaddesden, and working as a straw plaiter. Her mother died in 1866.

Maria then went to live with her sister Hannah and her husband, living with them at Carpenders Farm Cottages at Oxhey in Watford by the time of the 1871 census. She moved with them to Mead Cottage in Bushey, where they were living in 1881. Maria was described as an "agricultural labouress".

Maria's sister and brother-in-law both died in 1885, and by 1891 Maria had returned to her native Great Gaddesden, working again as a straw plaiter.

The 1901 census finds Maria as an inmate of the Hemel Hempstead Union Workhouse. Maria died in 1905, aged 87.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Baptisms register, in Church of England. Great Gaddesden Parish Registers. (Hertford: Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies).

   BAPTISMS solemnized in the Parish of Great Gaddesden in the County of Hertford in the Year 1818
   No.	When Baptized	Child's Christian Name	Parent's Name		Abode	Quality, Trade, or Profession	By whom the Ceremony was performed
   			Christian	Surname
   256	Sept[embe]r 20	Ann Maria D[aughte]r of	James and Elisabeth	Dean born August 22	G[reat] Gaddesden	Laborer	W. Bingham

2. ↑ 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 441; Book 2; Folio 17; Page 6, 6 Jun 1841.

   Address: Gaddesden Row [listed next to Horse and Jockey public house], Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire
   Elizabeth Dean, female, 60 [1776-81], Platter, b. Hertfordshire
   Joseph Dean, male, 30 [1806-11], born in county [appears to have been crossed out]
   Ann Dean, female, 20 [1816-21], born in county

3. ↑ 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 1715; Folio 449; Page 10, 30 Mar 1851.

   Address: Gaddesden Row, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire
   Elizabeth Deane, head, widow, female, 73 [1777/8], Straw Plater, b. Gaddesden, Hertfordshire
   Ann Maria Deane, daughter, unmarried, female, 32 [1818/9], Straw Plater, b. Gaddesden, Hertfordshire

4. ↑ 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 840; Folio 4; Page 2, 7 Apr 1861.

   Address: Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire
   Elizabeth Dean, head, widow, female, 84 [1776/7], Straw plaiter, b. Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire
   Ann Maria Dean, daughter, unmarried, female, 42 [1818/9], Straw plaiter, b. Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire

5. ↑ 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 1382; Folio 10; Page 12, 2 Apr 1871.

   Address: Carpenders Farm Cottages, Oxey [sic] Lane, Oxhey, Watford, Hertfordshire
   William Sloughter, head, married, male, 51 [1819/20], Ploughman, b. Shenley, Hertfordshire
   Anna Sloughter, wife, married, female, 54 [1816/17], b. Gadston, Hertfordshire
   Marian Deak [sic], lodger, unmarried, female, 52 [1818/19], b. Gadston, Hertfordshire

6. ↑ England. 1881 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 RG11; Piece 1434; Folio 60; Page 10, 3 Apr 1881.

   Address: Mead Cottage, Bushey, Hertfordshire
   William Slaughter, head, married, male, 61 [1819/20], Ag[ricultural] Laborer, b. Anstead, Hertfordshire
   Hannah Slaughter, wife, married, female, 64 [1816/17], Wife, b. G[rea]t Gaddesden, Hertfordshire
   Maria Slaughter, sister in law, unmarried, female, 62 [1818/19], Ag[ricultural] Laboress, b. G[rea]t Gaddesden, Hertfordshire

   Maria seems to have been mistakenly recorded under her sister and brother-in-law's surname.

7. ↑ England. 1891 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 RG12; Piece 1125; Folio 16; Page 5, 5 Apr 1891.

   Address: Bradwin Lane, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire
   3 rooms occupied
   Maria Dean, head, widow, female, 72 [1818/19], Straw Plaiter, neither employer nor employed, b. Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire

8. ↑ England. England. 1901 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 RG13; Piece 1325; Folio 102; Page 27, 31 Mar 1901.

   Address: Union Workhouse, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
   Many inmates, including:
   Maria Dean, inmate, single, female, 82 [1818/19], Straw Plaiter, b. G[rea]t Gaddesden, Hertfordshire

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

   d. Maria DEAN, September Quarter 1905, Hemel Hempstead Registration District, Volume 3a, page 378, aged 87 [1817/18]

10.   Bucks Gazette, in United Kingdom. The British Newspaper Archive
    Page 1, 25 Sep 1841.

    GREAT BERKHAMSTEAD PETTY SESSION - SEPTEMBER 21.
    Joseph Brandrum, of Great Gaddesden, was brought up in custody, charged with having assaulted Ann Maria Dean.
    The complainant said, on the 24th July last she was called into Jesse Steven's beer-shop, Gaddesden row, to take away her brother that was quarrelling with defendant, who was about to strike her brother, when she got between them; the defendant pushed her away, and she fell down; she got up, and he pushed her down again, and he told her if she came near he would knock her brains out.
    Convicted, and fined one penny, and 17s. costs, to be paid in a fortnight, or to be committed for a week.