Birth: 1 August 1835 39 Henry Street, Pentonville, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, UK
Father: Moses John Backhouse 1812-1879
Mother: Mary Ann Brewin 1809-1883
Christening: 10 April 1836 Pentonville Claremont Independent, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, UK
Marriage: 31 March 1869 St Mary, Islington, Middlesex, UK
Husband: Charles Grocock 1842-1890
Death: 10 September 1906 47 Lyndhurst Road Peckham, London, UK
Burial: 12 September 1906 Camden, London, UK
Horace Backhouse Grocock 1872-1950
Edgar Charles Grocock 1875-1953
Harold Backhouse Grocock 1876-1915
Arthur Backhouse Grocock 1878-1964
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Mary Jane Backhoase (sic) born 1 August 1835, baptised 10 April 1835 at Pentonville Claremont Independent, Clerkenwell, London, parents Moses John Backhoase and Mary Ann Brewin.
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970 for Mary Jane Backhouse born 1 August 1835 in St James Clerkenwell, Middlesex, baptised 10 April 1836 in Pentonville, London, parents Moses John Backhouse and Mary Ann Brewer (sic). "Mary Jane, Daughter of Moses John Backhouse and Mary Ann his Wife, Daughter of William Brewin Born 39 Henry St Pentonville Parish of St James Clerkenwell County of Middlesex the first day of August in the year 1835 Baptized tenth day of April in the Year 1836".
In the 1841 census as Mary Backhouse aged 5, born in Middlesex, and living with John and Mary (parents?), and John and Robt (brothers?) in Henry Street, Pentonville, St James Clerkenwell, Middlesex. Another family lived at the same address.
In the 1851 census as Mary A Backhouse aged 15, born in Clerkenwell, Middlesex, and living with her parents (John and Mary A), and two brothers (John and Robert) at 3 Cambridge Terrace, Islington, Middlesex. Two other families lived at same address.
I cannot locate her in the 1861 census.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932 for the banns of Jane (sic) Backhouse and Charles Grocock on 28 March 1869 at St Mary, Islington, Islington. "The Year 1869 Page 18 [...] No. 88 Banns of Marriage between Charles Grocock, Bachelor of this Parish & Jane Backhouse, Spinster of Billinghay, Sleaford were published on the Three Sundays underwritten; That is to say, 1st, on Sunday the 11 March [...] 2d, on Sunday the 21 March [...] 3d, on Sunday the 28 March".
Marriage of Mary Jane Backhouse and Charles Grocock in FreeBMD in January-March 1869 in Islington (1b 370).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936 for the marriage of Mary Jane Backhouse, father Moses John Backhouse, and Charles Grocock on 31 March 1869 at St Mary, Islington. "Page 56 [No.] 111 1869 Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church in the Parish of Islington in the County of Middlesex. Charles Grocock [of] full age, [a] Bachelor [and] Schoolmaster [of] Billinghay, Sleaford, Lincoln, [father] Isaac Grocock, [a] farmer, [and] Mary Jane Backhouse [of] full age, [a] Spinster [of] 31 Manchester Terrace, [father] Moses John Backhouse, [a] Builder. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns [...] in the Presence of us John Backhouse and Jane Maria Bradley".
In the 1871 census as Mary J Gracock (sic - on the original) aged 29, born in Precepton (sic - on the orginal) Clerkenwell, and living with her husband (Charles) in Billinghay Village, Lincolnshire.
His first son was born in Billinghay in 1872, and last three sons in Peckham from 1875 to 1878.
In the 1881 census as Mary Jane Gracock (sic - in the index, Grocock on the original) aged 46, born in Camberwell (sic - on the original), Middlesex, and living with her husband (Charles), three sons (Arthur, Edgar Charles and Harold Backhouse) and two lodgers (Shatders aged 62, born in Holt Town ?, Norfolk, and a tea traveller, and Henry Cloid Bradley aged 36, born in Ipswich, Suffolk and a brokers clerk - a Henry Cloid Bradley Shalders was born in Ipswich in 1842) at 41 Hanover Street, Camberwell, London. The image is nearly illegible.
Her husband was buried on 29 April 1890 in Southwark.In the 1891 census as Mary J Grocock aged 53, born in Clerkenwell, London, widowed, living on her own means, and living with her four sons (Arthur B, Edgar C, Harold B and Horace B), and two lodgers (Louisa Phillips aged 68, born in West Indies and widowed and her neice neice Frances A Rosenthal aged 26, born in Exeter, Devon, single and both living on their own means) at 47 Lyndhurst Road, Camberwell, London.
In the 1901 census as Mary Jane Grocock aged 64, born in Pentonville, widowed, no stated employment, and living with her two sons (Arthur and Harold), and a boarder (Henry G Moore aged 27, born in Highgate, London) at 47 Lyndhurst Road, Camberwell, London.
There are five entries in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Mary Jane Grocock address 47 Lyndhurst Road, Peckham SE, Dulwich, Southwark from 1901 to 1905,
Death of Mary Jane Grocock in FreeBMD in July-September 1906 aged 71 in Camberwell (1d 497).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),1861-1941 for Mary Jane Grocock died 10 September 1906 in Surrey, probate 19 November 1906 in London. "Grocock Mary Jane of 47 Lyndhurst-road Peckham Surrey widow died 10 September 1906 Administration London 19 November to Harold Backhouse Grocock commercial-clerk Effects £99 15s. 1d.".
Entry in Deceased Online for Mary Jane Backhouse Grocock buried 12 September 1906 in Camden, London.
There are thirteen entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Mary Jane Backhouse.
Mary Jane Backhouse was the mother of Harold Backhouse Grocock, husband of Annie Elizabeth Luff, my half second cousin once removed.
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