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Ancestors of Mary Ann Miller
Mary Ann & James's
Herbert William
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Mary Ann Miller was born on 19th June 1868 in a cottage at the rear of the Bull Inn at Bulverhythe in East Sussex and she was baptised at St Peter’s Church, Bexhill on 9th August 1868. She was the fourth and youngest child of Thomas Miller (1841-1910) and Philadelphia Freeman (1838-1914). By 1871 the family were living in Bexhill on Haddocks Hill and Mary Ann grew up in Bexhill where her father was an agricultural labourer. On 23rd September 1893 Mary Ann married James William Thomas at St Peter’s church in Bexhill. The witnesses at the wedding were Mary Ann’s elder sister, Emma Ann Miller and their adopted younger brother Charles Alexander Miller. James William and Mary Ann’s early-married life was spent in Ninfield where five of their six children were born in Lower Street. By 1904, when the youngest daughter was born, the family had moved to the Ticehurst area of East Sussex. James William’s family originated in the Wadhurst and Ticehurst area but had moved to Bexhill in the 1880s when the agricultural slump had forced many farmers and landowners out of business and there had been a sharp decline in agricultural work. |
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In 1913 the family moved to Chislehurst in Kent, 10 miles south east of London. Here the family settled permanently and James William did agricultural work and also dug graves in the local churchyard. Both James William and Mary Ann lived to old age. James William died on 11th April 1953, aged 87, and Mary Ann died on 22nd June 1958, three days after her ninetieth birthday. Both were buried in the churchyard of the Church of the Annunciation, Chislehurst, Kent.
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