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Facts and Events
Mary Millard’s origins have yet to be established. The age given when she died suggests that she was born around 1772. Her first confirmed sighting is on 16th May 1796, when she married a labourer called William Street at Astwick in Bedfordshire.
William was from the neighbouring parish of Hinxworth in Hertfordshire, and they settled in Hinxworth after their marriage, having eight children baptised there between 1796 and 1814, although one died as a baby in 1807.
In a tax survey taken in 1798 William was said to rent a property at Hinxworth from one Edward Payne. Eight years later the enclosure award of Hinxworth parish shows that the only piece land owned by Edward Payne was a house on the south-eastern corner of the High Street and the road later called Chapel Street. It is therefore likely that this is where Mary and William lived.
William died in March 1820, aged 57.
The 1841 census finds Mary living at the big house of Clothall Bury, about seven miles south of Hinxworth, working as a servant for a farmer called William Sale. The Sale family were also landowners in Hinxworth.
Mary later returned to Hinxworth. She died there on 6th October 1846, when she was said to be 74 years old. She was said to have been in good health right up until her sudden death, so an inquest was held, finding that she had died “by visitation of God”.
References
- ↑ 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 446; Book 5; Folio 6; Page 7, 6 Jun 1841.
Address: Clothall Bury, Clothall, Hertfordshire
W[illia]m Sale, male, 30 [1806-11], Farmer, born in county
Mary Street, female, 65 [1771-6], F[emale] S[ervant], not born in county
Mary Nott, female, 20 [1816-21], F[emale] S[ervant], not born in county
W[illia]m Hollingsworth, male, 15 [1821-6], Ag[ricultural] Lab[ourer], born in county
Henry Anderson, male, 20 [1816-21], Ag[ricultural] Lab[ourer], born in county
Francis Wilshere, male, 15 [1821-6], Ag[ricultural] Lab[ourer], not born in county
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Deaths index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).
d. Mary STREET, December Quarter 1846, Royston & Buntingford Registration District, Volume 6, page 480, aged 74 [1771/2]
- ↑ Church of England. Parish registers of Hinxworth, 1551-1985. (Hertford: Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies)
Burials register.
| BURIALS in the Parish of Hinxworth in the County of Hertford in the Year 1846 | | No | Name | Abode | When buried | Age | By whom the Ceremony was performed | | 244 | Mary Street | Hinxworth | October 9 | 74 years [1771/2] | H.D. Heatley |
- ↑ Hertford Mercury, in United Kingdom. The British Newspaper Archive
Page 3, Saturday, 17 Oct 1846.
HINXWORTH.
On Thursday week, an inquest was held at Hinxworth, before T. Sworder, Esq., coroner, on view of the body of Mary Street, aged 74 years, who died suddenly on the previous Tuesday morning. The deceased had been in good health up to the time of her death. The jury returned a verdict of "Died by the Visitation of God."
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