Person:Ann Wild (4)

Ann Wild was baptised on 14th September 1745 at Ockbrook in Derbyshire, daughter of Ann Wild, formerly Buck, and her husband John Wild, a farmer. Ann was their third child, having two older sisters. When Ann was still very small the family left Ockbrook and moved nearly twenty miles east to Owthorpe in Nottinghamshire. Ann's mother died there in 1747, when Ann was only two years old.

Ann's father married again the following year. His second wife was a Mary Capps, who thus became Ann's stepmother. Ann had seven younger half siblings from her father's second marriage, although two of them died young.

Ann was married on 11th December 1769, aged 24, to a weaver named William Bonser. They married at Colston Bassett, immediately east of Owthorpe. He was a weaver and a widower with four surviving children from his first marriage. Ann and William went settled in Colston Bassett after their marriage, having a son named William in 1770 and a daughter called Ann in 1774, but she sadly young Ann died when she was only two years old. Back in Owthorpe Ann's father John died in 1770, leaving her £5 in his will.

William died in 1777, aged 43. Ann survived him by less than a year, being buried at Colston Bassett on 11th June 1778. She was 32 years old.

1. ↑ Church of England. Parish Church of Ockbrook (Derbyshire). Parish registers, 1630-1958. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1981-1997).

   Ann the daughter of John & Ann Wilde was Baptized Sept[ember] the 14 1745

   This baptism has been linked to the Ann Wild who married William Bonser at Colston Bassett in December 1769 on the basis of her father John Wild's will, written in April 1770, which names a number of his children including Ann Bonser. All his children named in the will can be linked to the children baptised at Owthorpe after 1748 with parents John and Mary Wild, with the exception of the first three named daughters, all of whom were already married when John wrote his will, being described as Sarah Dexter, Mary Vose and Ann Bonser. There do not appear to be any earlier Wild baptisms at Owthorpe, although there was an Ann Wild buried at Owthorpe in 1747, the year before John married Mary Capps there. It therefore seems likely that this Ann was his first wife. One of the other beneficiaries of John's will was a William Buck, and there was a John Wild and Ann Buck who married at Radford in Nottinghamshire in 1741. This John and Ann appear to have had a daughter Sarah at Radford in 1742, then moved to Ockbrook in Derbyshire where they had daughters called Mary in 1744 and Ann in 1745. There is no trace of this John or Ann being buried at Ockbrook, supporting the theory that they moved away. John Wild and Ann Buck's three daughters were therefore born in the order in which John named his daughters in his will.

2. ↑ Nottinghamshire Family History Society. Nottinghamshire Burials Database.

   bur. 11 Jun 1778, Colston Bassett: Ann Bonser

   Needs to be confirmed at Nottinghamshire Archives.