Birth: April-June 1858 Greenwich, Kent, UK
Father: Benjamin Letton c1825-1874>
Mother: Mary Ann Crop [Smith] c1831-1916/7
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: August 1883 St Mary Magdalene, Peckham, Camberwell, Surrey, UK
Husband: Edward Luff 1852-1921
Death: October-December 1919 Tonbridge, Kent, UK
Daisy Harriet Luff [Redman] 1884-1961
Florence Violet Luff [Cross] 1888-1968
Birth of Jessie Maria Letton in FreeBMD in April-June 1858 in Greenwich (1d 528).
In the 1861 census as Jessie Letton aged 3, born in Greenwich, Kent, and living with her parents (Benjmin and Mary Ann), brother (George), and four sisters (Ellen, Emma, Harriett and Louisa) at 24 Little Thames Street, Greenwich.
In the 1871 census as Jessie Letton aged 13, born in Greenwich, and living with her parents (Benjamin and Mary Ann), brother (William), and three sisters (Alice, Louisa and Margaret) at 12 Nelson Buildings, Bridge Street, Greenwich.
In the 1881 census as Jessie Letton aged 23, born in Greenwich, single, employed as a kitchen maid, and living with Robert N Philips (aged 65, born in Prestwick, Lanarkshire, Scotland, widowed, and employed as an MP and cotton merchant), his daughter (Anna M, aged 23, born in Prestwick, unmarried and employed as being a lady), a visitor (Mary F Wicksteed aged 44, born in Surrey, unmarried and also employed as being a lady) and 10 other servants at 47 Berkeley Sq, London, Middlesex.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 for the banns of Jessie Maria Litton and Edward Luff on 5 August 1883 at St Mary Magdalene, Peckham, Camberwell. "Page 145 The Year 1883 Banns of Marriage between Edward Luff (Bachr) and Jessie Maria (crossed out) Letton (spinster) of this parish on 22 July, 29 July, and 5 August."
Marriage of Jessie Litton and Edward Luff in FreeBMD in July-September 1883 in Camberwell (1d 1245).
Her first daughter was born in Hampstead in 1884 and second in Tunbridge Wells in 1888.
In the 1891 census as Jessie M Luff aged 33, born in Greenwich, Kent, and living with her husband (Edward) and two daughters (Daisy H and Florence V) at 11 Waterdown Cottages, Frant, Kent (north of Frant and may now be part of Tunbridge Wells).
In the 1901 census as Jessie M Tuff (sic - in the index, correct on the original), aged 43, born in Greenwich, London, and living with her husband (Edward) and two daughters (Daisy H and Florence V) at 16 Broadwater Down, Broadwater Down, Kent (southern part of Tunbridge Wells).
In the 1911 census as Jessie Maria Luff aged 53, born in Greenwich, London, married for 27 years, two children both still living, and living with her husband (Edward) and daughter (Daisy Harriett) in five rooms at 35 Frant Road, Tunbridge Wells.
Death of Jessie M Luff in FreeBMD in October-December 1919 aged 61 in Tonbridge (2a 921).
There is an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Jessie Maria Letton born in 1858 in Greenwich, London, parents Benjamin Letton and Mary Ann Crop, her marriage to Edward Luff in Camberwell, London in 1993, and her two daughters.
David Hornblow has an entry for Jessie Maria Letton born in 1858 in Greenwich, Kent, her marriage to Edward Luff in 1883 in Camberwell Surrey, and her two daughters.
Jessie Maria Letton was the wife of Edward Luff, my half first cousin twice removed.
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