Birth: About 1819 Shotesham, Norfolk, UK
Father: John Adams 1788-1866
Mother: Ann Kerridge c1790-1853
Marriage: October-December 1877 Norwich, Norfolk, UK
Husband: John Sexton 1817-1888/90
Death: April-June 1902 Norwich, Norfolk, UK
Unknown
In the 1841 census as Mary Adams aged 23 (rounded down to a multiple of 5?), born in Norfolk, no stated employment and living with John and Ann (parents?), Amos and Enoch (brothers?) and Hagar, Maria and Emily (sisters?) at Shotesham St Mary and St Martin, Norfolk.
In the 1851 census as Mary Ann Adams aged 32, born in Shotesham, single, no stated employment, and living with her parents (John and Ann), brother (Enoch), and two sisters (Emily and Hagar) at 2 Filands Cottages, Shotesham St Mary.
Her mother died in 1853.
In the 1861 census as Mary A Adams aged 41, born in Shotesham St Mary, single, employed as a family servant and living with her sister (Hughes (Hagar)), and two visitors (Emily and Frederick Alderton - her married sister and nephew) at The Street, Shotesham All Saints. Her father was an inmate at Trinity Hospital, Greenwich St Alphege, Kent.
In the 1871 census as Mary Adams aged 52, born in Shottesham, single, no stated emplyment and living with her married sister (Hagar Dickerson) and brother in law (William Dickerson) in Nelson Cottages, Trafalger Street, Lakenham, Norfolk.
Marriage of Mary Ann Adams and John Sexton in FreeBMD in October-December 1877 in Norwich (4b 416).
In the 1881 census as Mary A Sexton aged 64, born in Shottesham, and living with her husband (John) in Trafalger Street, Lakenham, Norfolk
Her husband died in 1888 or 1890.
In the 1891 census as Mary A Sexton aged 72, born in Shottesham, widowed, no stated employment, and living with her son (she is stated to be his mother on the original although she was his sister-in-law) William Dickerson, his wife (Hagar), and son (Harry W) at 61 Trafalger Street, Lakenham, Norfolk.
In the 1901 census as Mary Ann Sexton aged 84, born in Strotesham, All Saints, Norfolk, widowed, no stated employment, and living with her widowed sister Hager Dickerson, and nephew (Harry Wm Dickerson) in four rooms at 61 Trafalger Street, Lakenham St Mark, Norfolk.
Death of Mary Ann Sexton in FreeBMD in April-June 1902 in Norwich (4b 105).
Mary Ann Adams was my first cousin three times removed.
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