Ann Hawker

c1821-1883

Ann was baptised in 1821 in Gittisham, Devon, the daughter of Charles and Joanna Hawker (aka Anne, nee Lucraft) who were married on the 29^th March 1814 in Gittisham. 

Ann’s siblings were:

Henry baptised in 1814 in Gittisham

William babtised in 1816 in Gittisham (died in 1823 in Exeter)

Mary baptised in 1819 in Gittisham

John baptised in 1823 in Exeter

Charles baptised in 1826 in Exeter

Richard baptised in 1829 in Exeter

William baptised in 1831 in Exeter

In 1851 Ann (29), a Dressmaker was living with her widowed mother Joanna (64) in West Street, Newbury.

The 1861 census records Ann (39) and her sister Mary (41) as Milliner & Dressmakers at 77 Northbrook Street, Newbury. Also recorded in the household were their mother Joanna (72), Formerly a Dressmaker, Anne Powell (23), a Milliner & Dressmaker’s Assistant, two cousins, Amelia Slone (21), a Dressmaker and Amelia Bulbick (9), Elizabeth Tisher (17) and Charlotte Stevens (14), both Apprentice Dressmakers, Lucy Wilmot (17), a Servant and a Lodger, Edward Thomas Ezard (27) an Architectural Assistant.

(Mary and Ann Hawker are recorded as Milliners and Dressmakers at 77 Northbrook Street, in the 1869 Kelly’s Directory)

Ann’s mother Joanna died aged 75 in 1863, she was buried in a consecrated private grave in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 6^th October.

Both the 1871 and 1881 census records record Mary and Ann still working as Dressmakers at 77 Northbrook Street.

In 1871 their cousin Amelia Bulbick (19), a Dressmaker, Annie Cruse (17) and Martha E Stanmore (17), both Apprentice Dressmakers, Sarah J Grace (16), a Dressmaker’s Assistant, Emma Pike (17), a General Domestic Servant and James B Adamson (28), Curate of Shaw-cum-Donnington were also recorded in the household.

 In 1881 Mary and Ann only has two other people recorded in the household with them, Sarah Ballard (16), an Apprentice Dressmaker and Harriet Lailey (18), a General Servant.

Ann died aged 60 on the 19^th April 1883 after a long and painful illness, she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 26^th April.

In 1891 Ann’s sister Mary (73) was living on her Own Means with her cousin Mary Bulbick (71) and Mary’s children Charles Bulbick (40) and Amelia Bulbick (38), at 57 Darville Road, Hackney, London. She died on the 13^th February 1899 at 6 Rectory-road Stoke Newington.

Probate:

HAWKER Ann

Personal Effects: £45 4s 6d       The Will of Ann Hawker late of Newbury in the County of Berks Spinster who died 19^th April 1883 at Newbury was proved at Oxford by Mary Hawker of Newbury Spinster the sister the sole Executrix.

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