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Annie Stone Boys
c1844-1915
Ann, her parents, siblings and early life:
Ann Stone was born in Bridport, Dorset, she was baptised on the 28th March 1844 in Bridport, the daughter of Richard and Ann Major (nee Stone) who were married on the 6th June 1826, in Shipton Gorge, Dorset.
Her father Richard was born c1790 in Dorset. He died aged 58 in 1848, in Bridport.
Her mother Ann was born c1807 Withyhook, Dorset.
Richard and Ann also had the following children baptised in Bridport (baptism records record Richard as a Victualler):
Richard Stone, 25th August 1830
Jane Stone, 13th March 1833
Sarah Stone, 23rd September 1835
Thomas Stone, 17th May 1837
John Stone, 17th December 1839
Henry Stone, 28th February 1841
In 1841 the family were living in West Street, Bridport. Richard was recorded as a Publican (The Greyhound Hotel, Bridport).
The 1851 census records Ann (7) living in East Street, Bridport, Dorset, with her widowed mother Ann (44), an Innkeeper and her siblings, Richard (20), Jane (18), Henry (10) and a servant.
Ann in later life:
Annie married Elias Weeks Boys on the 9th January 1869 in Rangoon, Bengal, India
(Elias was baptised on the 25th September 1827 in Bridport, the son of Elias Weeks (a Rope Maker) and Mary Boys (nee Undery/Underhay) who were married in 1823 in Topsham, Devon. (Both were minors)
They had the following two daughters:
Mary Jane Josephine Budd Boys, born 14th January 1870, she was baptised on the 11th May 1870, in Rangoon, West Bengal, India
Susan Annie Ward Boys, born either the 26th or 27th December 1871 in Bassein Burma, she was baptised on the 10th November 1872, in Rangoon, Bengal, India
Annie was widowed in 1893, Elias died on the 29th October 1893, in Rangoon, Burma
The 1911 census records Annie (67) living on Private Means, with her daughter Susan Annie Ward Boys (39), at 30 Gloucester Road, Newbury.
Annie died aged 70, on the 2nd February 1915. She was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 4th February.
Mrs P Page 83 Code NCh (F) 1
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