Mary Ann Garner (OH's MFMM)

[Jill]

Name - "official" name and what they were known as:
Mary Ann Garner

Date and place of birth:
c1845 Horsham, Sussex

Names of parents:
John & Mary

Date and place of baptism - if applicable:
not known

Details of each of his or her marriages - if any:
23 Jun 1866 Horsham, Sussex to George Clement Jenner

Occupation(s) - if any:
charwoman

Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on.
1851: Star Road, Horsham
1861: Star Row, Horsham
1871: Star Row, Horsham
1881: Crawley Road, North Horsham
1891 Horsham living with her brother in law Louis as his wife though they were not married

Date, place and cause of death: unknown1899, Horsham, (see Marg's good spot below)

Date and place of burial / cremation unknown

Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable: none found

Memorial inscription - if any: unknown

[Margaret in Burton]

Death

Mary Ann Jenner
Dec qtr 1899
Horsham
2b 257
aged 54

If that is her death I can't see her in 1891. Was her husband still alive in 1891?

[Margaret in Burton]

Oh I see he wasn't. Just looked him up on your post for him.

[Margaret in Burton]

Forget that death on #2

There is a Mary Jenner wife of Louis in 1891 and he is a widower in 1901 so that death is probably her.

I wonder if your Mary remarried?

[Jill]

Thanks for looking Marg, a remarriage had crossed my mind too .

[Jill]

Forget that death on #2

There is a Mary Jenner wife of Louis in 1891 and he is a widower in 1901 so that death is probably her.



I think you might have something there!

I took a look at the 1901 and Louis has a stepson called Albert. Mary Ann Garner had a son Albert of that age and on the 1891 with Louis & Mary there's both a Charles (another of her sons) and an Albert though neither are down as stepsons the ages tie in.

Can't see a marriage yet, both had the same surname so maybe could pass themselves off as married.

...after a bit of further ferretting it appears Louis is her brother in law! Presumably not allowed to marry upr dead husband's brother at that time, so just lived together.

[Jill]

Marg you were right about that death, I was talking to my mother in law and she remembers her granny talking about "the arrangement" as she delicately called it between Mary Ann and her brother in law Louis - they had two children together.

[Jill]

Have now found the baptism:

Marianne Garner, 18 May 1845 at St Mary, Horsham, dau of John Garner, farmer & Mary Garner.