Birth: 16 August 1841 Castle Gates, Knaresborough, Yorkshire, UK
Father: William Clemishaw 1809-1876
Mother: Ann Brown 1813-1185
Marriage: 7 March 1865 Knaresborough Parish Church, Yorkshire, UK
Husband: William Duncan Leslie c1842-1881
Marriage: 23 May 1887 Oxford Place Chapel, Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Husband: George Wilson 1846-a1911
Death: January-March 1929 Richmond, Yorkshire, UK
By William Duncan Leslie
Annie Brown Leslie 1886-1928
William Clemishaw Leslie 1871-1945
Entry for the birth of Ann Cleminshaw in FreeBMD in July-September 1841 in Knaresbro (23 281). Copy of Entry 115 in the 1841 Knaresborough Register of Births: Birth of Ann Clemishaw on 16 August 1841 at Castle Gates, Knaresborough, father William Clemishaw employed as a shoemaker and mother Ann Clemishaw formerly Brown. The informant was her father and the birth was registered on the 26 August 1841.
In 1851 census as Ann Clesnishaw (sic - correct on the original) aged 9, born in Knaresbro, Yorkshire, and living with her parents (William and Ann), three brothers (David, George and William), sister (Sarah), uncle (David Clemishaw) and three lodgers, an apprentice and a servant at Market Place, Knaresborough.
In the 1861 census as Amy (sic - on the original) Clemishaw aged 19, born in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, unmarried, a milliner, and living with her parents (William and Anne), four brothers (Daniel, George, John S and William), sister (Sarah), grandfather (John Brown) and a servant at Market Place, Knaresborough.
*She worked as a milliner in Harrogate where she met William Leslie. She had a bonnet and ribbon shop in the Market Place in Knaresborough before she was married, and continued to make tiny, wire-framed, head-top bonnets for herself until she died.*
Marriage of Ann Clemishaw and William Duneah Leslie in FreeBMD in January-March 1865 in Knaresbro (9a 120). Copy of entry of marriage number 345 in Knaresborough: Marriage of Ann Clemishaw aged over 21, a spinster, living at Knaresborough to William Duncan Leslie on 7 March 1865 at the parish church in Knaresborough by license. Her father was William Clemishaw, employed as a shoemaker. The marriage was witnessed by Wm Clemishaw, S. Clemishaw and Charles Robinson. This implies William Duncan Leslie purchased the Castle Inn after his marriage. The Wm Clemishaw could have been either Ann's father or brother. The S Clemishaw was probably Ann's sister Sarah.
Copy of Entry of Birth 430 in Knaresborough: Birth of William Clemishaw Leslie on 30th January 1871 at Finkle Street, Knaresbro to William Duncan Leslie and Annie Leslie formerly Clemishaw. *Family legend is that her parents objected to her son being born in a pub and so her son William was born in a mill down by the river at Knaresborough, thought to belong to his mother's Aunt whose son became Captain Brown.* However Finkle Street is off Knaresborough High Street and is not down by the river.
In 1871 census as Annie Leslie aged 29, born in Knaresborough and living with her husband (William Duncan), son (William Clemishaw), daughter (Annie Brown), and a general servant (Fanny Bentley aged 21, unmarried and born in Knaresborough) at The Castle Inn, Knaresborough.
Her husband died on 16 January 1881
In 1881 census as Annie Leslie aged 39, born in Knaresborough, widowed, employed as a millinery fancy repository, and living with her daughter (Annie B) in the High Street, Knaresborough (her son William was living with his grandmother Ann Brown and uncle John Climishaw).
Copy of Entry of Marriage : George Wilson married Annie Leslie on 23 May 1887 in Oxford Place Chapel (Wesleyan Methodist), Leeds. She was a widow, aged 44, and living at 61 Hillary Street, Leeds. Her father was William Clemishaw (deceased), a shoemaker. The marriage was witnessed by Clare Wilson (I assume his daughter although she was only 7), Annie Brown? Leslie (I assume her daughter) and Robert Brown (her uncle). The marriage of Annie Leslie and George Wilson is in FreeBMD in April-June 1887 in Leeds (9b 822).
In the 1891 census as Annie Wilson aged 49, born in Knarsbro (sic), and living with her husband (George), and four (step)sons (Arthur, Benjamin, John and Henery), three (step)daughters (Clara, Emma and Flora) and a servant Elizabeth Thompsom (aged 16 and born in Kirbymoorside, Yorkshire) at Hough End, Bramley, Leeds, Yorkshire.
In the 1901 census as Annie Wilson aged 59, born in Knaresborough, and living with her husband (George), (step)son (Benjamine) and two (step)daughters (Emma and Flora) at 22 Vinery Road, Headingley, Leeds.
In the 1911 census as Annie Wilson aged 69 and living with George (husband?) in Leeds, West Riding, Yorkshire.
Death of Annie Wilson in FreeBMD in January-March 1929 aged 85 in Richmond Y (9d 1216).
Shirely Leslie has an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Annie Clemishaw born about 1842 in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, her marriage to William Duncan Leslie, her son, and her death in about 1929 in Yorkshire. Dave Kirk adds her parents as William Clemishaw and Annie Brown, gives her husband as William Duneah (sic) Leslie, and her daughter, but not her death.
*-* This information came from Mona Chadwick.
Ann Clemishaw was Felicity's great grandmother.
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