Person:Hannah Wild (3)

Hannah Wild was baptised on 21st June 1762 at Owthorpe in Nottinghamshire, daughter of Mary Wild, formerly Capps, and her husband John Wild, a farmer.

Hannah's father died in 1770, when Hannah was only about eight years old. He left her thirty pounds in his will. Hannah's mother died in 1783.

By 1789 Hannah was living in Leicester. She was married at St Margaret's church there on 23rd February 1789, aged 26, to a farmer called Christopher Fox. He was from Thorpe in the Glebe back in Nottinghamshire, about ten miles south-west of Owthorpe. After their marriage, Hannah and Christopher moved to Thorpe. The church at Thorpe had fallen into ruin by this time and the small population used other nearby churches instead, and it would appear that Hannah and Christopher used the church at Wymeswold, just over the county boundary in Leicestershire. They had two daughters baptised at Wymeswold: Elizabeth in 1789 (who gave her place of birth as Thorpe in the 1851 census) and Mary in 1792, whose baptism record at Wymeswold notes that the family actually lived at Thorbe in the Glebe.

Some time between 1792 and 1818 the family left Thorpe in the Glebe and moved about sixteen miles south-west to Thornton in Leicestershire. Hannah's younger daughter Mary was married there in 1818 to Barnabas Sharp, a hosier from Sunderland, nearly 200 miles north of Thornton.

At Thornton, Christopher ran a mixed farm, rearing sheep, cows and pigs, and growing wheat, barley, oats, beans and turnips. He also appears to have produced cheese, with the inventory drawn up after his death specifically mentioning a cheese press and vats and one ton of cheese being in his possession.

Christopher died in 1833, aged 69. In his will he left everything to Hannah for her lifetime, after which the estate was to be split between their two daughters.

Hannah survived him by fourteen years. She appears in the 1841 census living at Thornton with her elder daughter Elizabeth, who had married a farmer called Alexander Easom. Hannah died at the age of 85, being buried at Thornton on 1st September 1847.

1. ↑ Nottinghamshire Family History Society. Nottinghamshire Baptisms Database.

   ch. 21 Jun 1762, Owthorpe (St Margaret): Hannah daughter of John & Mary Wild

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 603; Book 12; Folio 11; Page 16, 6 Jun 1841.

   Hannah Fox, female, 75 [1761-6], Ind[ependent], not born in county
   Alexander Easom, male, 30 [1806-11], Farmer, born in county
   Elizabeth Easom, female, 45 [1791-6], not born in county
   Joseph Black, male, 20 [1816-21], M[ale] S[ervant], born in county
   George Blocksom, male, 40 [1796-1801], M[ale] S[ervant], born in county
   James Worby, male, 15 [1821-6], M[ale] S[ervant], born in county
   Hannah Pope, female, 15 [1821-6], F[emale] S[ervant], born in county

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

   d. Hannah FOX, September Quarter 1847, Market Bosworth Registration District, Volume 15, page 108, aged 86 [1760/1]

4. ↑ Burials register, in Thornton, Leicestershire, England. Parish Registers (Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Record Office / findmypast.co.uk).

   BURIALS in the Parish of Thornton in the County of Leicester in the Year 1847
   No.	Name	Abode	When buried	Age	By whom the Ceremony was performed
   303	Hannah Fox	Thornton	Sep[tembe]r 1	86 [1760/1]	Samuel Adams, Curate