Maria Culyer

c1795-1853

Maria Smith was born c1795, in Norwich, Norfolk (possibly born 16^th October, baptised 19^th October 1794, at St Julian, Norwich, the daughter of John and Mary Smith (nee Harper) not proved)

Maria married Wiliam Culyer on the 28^th June 1812, at St Helen, Norwich, Norfolk.

(William was born on the 3^rd February 1790, he was baptised on the 7^th February, at St Stephen, Norwich, Norfolk the son of Henry and Ann Cullyer (nee Ormesby/Ormsby) who were married on the 9^th September 1782, in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk)

They had the following children:

Maria Frances Ellis, baptised 7^th October 1813, at St Michael at Thorn, Norwich.

William George, born 8^th March, baptised 10^th March 1816, at St John Timberhill, Norwich (died aged 20, on the 26^th November, 1836 buried on the 27^th November, at Thorpe, Norfolk)

John Ormsby baptised on the 25^th January 1818, at St Lawrence, Norwich, Norfolk,

Maria was widowed in 1837, William died aged 47, on the 5^th February, he was buried in Thorpe-Next Norwich, on the 12^th February.

By 1841 Maria Cullyer (45) was living in Bitton, Gloucestershire, with her son-in-law Richard Share (25) an Excise Officer, her daughter Maria Share (25), her granddaughter Ellen (2) and her grandson William (1) (Frederick William).

The 1851 census records Maria (56) (recorded as Morrice Culzier on ancestry) as a Baker’s Widow, living in Northbrook Street, Newbury, with her widowed daughter Maria Share (recorded as Sheen on ancestry) and her grandchildren, Ellen Maria (12), Frederick Wm (11), H. Richard (9), Emma S. (7), Thomas (6) and Alice Sarah (3).

Maria died aged 58 in 1853. She was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 15^th June.

Maria’s grandson Ormsby Edward Culyer (the son of her daughter-in-law Sarah, widow of John Ormsby Culyer) died aged 3 in 1856, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 10^th January.

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