Ann Willis (1795 – 1871)

Ann Harris was born circa 1795 in Newbury. She married John Willis on 31 July 1820 at St Nicolas in Newbury.

She was recorded with her husband John and Sarah Goodman aged 76 in Church Almhouses Newbury in the 1841 census. John was were recorded a labourer. Sarah was Ann’s mother who as a widow had married William Goodman, a widower, on 1 October 1815 at St Nicolas in Newbury. William subsequently died in December 1825.

John died in August 1848 aged 52 and he was buried on 5 August 1848 at St Nicolas in Newbury.

In the 1851 census Ann was living in Bartholomew Street in Newbury, she was recorded as a pauper labourer’s widow. There was also a lodger Mary Wallen a widow aged 76.

Ten years later in the 1861 census Ann was living by herself in Lewis’s Buildings in Bartholomew Street in Newbury. Her occupation was recorded as a shoe maker’s widow.

In the 1871 census Ann was a lodger in Lamburn’s Yard in Newbury with her occupation recorded as a charwoman.

Ann died in October 1871 aged 76 and was buried at Newtown Road Cemetery on 13 October 1871.

Ann’s mother Sarah Goodman was buried at Newtown Road Cemetery on 6 November 1850.

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