Birth: About 1811 Cheapside, London, Middlesex, UK
Father: William Empson 1788-1851/61
Mother: Sarah Whiting 1786-1852
Christening: 19 January 1819 St Nicholas, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, UK
Marriage: 17 March 1834 Southwell, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, UK
Husband: Edmund Horatio Stubbs 1807-1871
Death: 21 June 1872 36 Hardy Street, Bowling, Bradford, Yorkshire, UK
Horatio Stubbs 1835-1878
Walter Empson Stubbs 1837-1907
Caroline Amelia Stubbs [Pillman] 1839-a1901
William Henry Stubbs c1843-1891
James A Stubbs 1848-1906
Sarah Ann Stubbs 1851-a1861
Reuben Alfred Stubbs 1853-1936
All the census entries except 1841 and her registration of death give her birth in 1811 in London Middlesex so if the following christening is correct the family must have moved and she was christened when she was 8. However as Horatio Stubbs, son of Edmund and Mary, was living with his grandparents, William and Sarah Empson, in the 1851 census I believe this to be the correct christening.
There is an entry in Nottinghamshire Family History Society Baptisms for Mary Ann Empson on 19 January 1819 at St Nicholas, Nottingham, parents William and Sarah - he was employed as a framesmith and they lived in Chesterfield St.
Marriage of Mary Anne Empson and Edmund Horatio Shibbs (sic) in the IGI on 17 March 1834 in Southwell, Nottingham. There is a submitted entry in the IGI for the marriage of Mary Ann Empson on 17 March 1834 at Nottingham, but no husband is given.
Entry in Ancestry Pallot's Marriage Index for Mary Ann Emyson corrected to Empson and Edmund Horatio Stubbs (indexed under Horatio, not Edmund) on 17 March 1832 (sic) at Radford, Notts with parents consent.
Entry in Ancestry Nottinghamshire, England, Extracted Church of England Parish Records, 1538-1837 for the marriage of Mary Ann Stubbs (sic) and Edmund Horatio Stubbs and on 17 March 1834 in Southwell, Nottinghamshire.
There is an entry in the Nottinghamshire Registry of Marriages 1559-1837 Volume 7 Southwell for Mary Ann Empson and Edmund Horatio Stubbs on 17 March 1834, parishioners of Radford, Nottinghamshire with permission of their parents (if they were born in 1811 and 1807 why was their parents permission required?).All the children were born in Nottinghamshire with the exception of James who was born in Runcorn, Cheshire and Reuben Alfred in Wirksworth, Derbyshire.
In the 1841 census as Mary Stubbs aged 25 (rounded down toa multiple of 5), born in Nottinghamshire, employed as a lace and cotton mender, and living with Edmund (husband?), Walter (son?) and Caroline (daughter?) at Willoughby Street, Lenton, Nottinghamshire.
In the 1851 census as Mary Ann Stubbs aged 40 (42 in the index), born in Cheapside, London, employed as a schoolmaster's wife, and living with her husband (Edmund), three sons (James, Walter and William) and two daughters (Caroline and Sarah Ann) in Sherwood Street, Radford, Nottinghamshire.
In the 1861 census as Mary A Stubbs aged 48, born in London, Middlesex, and living with her husband (Edmund), two sons (Alfred and James), and two daughters (Caroline and Sarah Ann) at the Bolton Industrial Ragged School, 94 Commision Street, Bolton, Lancashire.
Her husband died on 14 February 1871 in Little Horton, Bradford, Yorshire, and left under £300 to Mary Ann Stubbs of Little Horton, Widow, the Relict and the sole Executrix.
In the 1871 census as Mary Ann Stubbs aged 60, born in London, Middlesex, a widow and living with her daughter (Caroline Amelia Pillman) and her husband (Charles Wm Cunningham Pillman) and son (Frederick), and Caroline's sister-in-law (Elizabeth Pillman) at Dobcross, Saddleworth, Oldham, Yorkshire (probably now the A 6052).
There is an entry in FreeBMD for the death of Mary Ann Stubbs in April-June 1872 aged 61 in Bradford (9b 40). On a copy of the Entry of Death Number 168 in 1872 in Bowling, Bradford, Yorkshire, Mary Ann Stubbs died on 21 June 1872 at 36 Hardy Street aged 61 years. She was the widow of Edmund Stubbs, a day school teacher. The informant was Wm Stubbs who was present at her death and registered it on 25 June 1872. The cause of death was carcinoma (cancer that begins in skin or tissues that line the inside or cover the outside of internal organs) uteri. Thus she was living with her son William and his wife Jane, they having married two months previously.
There are four entries for Mary Ann Empson in Ancestry Public Member Trees. Justine Jones has an entry for Mary Ann Empson born in 1803 in Cheapside, husband Edmund Horatio Stubbs, her seven children and death in 1872. Andrew Peel has similar information giving her birth between 1810 and 1813 in London, her marriage to Edmund Horatio Stubbs on 17 March 1834 in Sarthwell, Nottingham, and her seven children. Another entry has similar information but gives her bith in 1803 in Cheapside, Essex, adds an extra marriage and three extra children. Another entry gives her birth in about 1803, her marriage to Edmund Horatio Stubbs in about 1834, one son Walter, and her death in about 1872. Several other entries contain combinations of the above.
Sharon Gerald has an entry for Mary Ann Empson born about 1811 in London, Middlesex, her marriage to Edmund Horatio Stubbs, a son Reuben, and her death in June 1872 in West Riding, Yorkshire.
Brian Wildin has an entry for Mary Ann Empson born in 1803 in London, married to Edmund Horatio Stubbs in 1834, her seven children and death in 1872.
The Stubbs Family Tree has an entry for Edmund Horatio Stubbs which contains "He married Mary Ann Empson at Southwell, Nottingham on March 17th 1834 {IGI: Film 183452}. The marriage is also recorded in Pallot's Index, with the same date and giving the parish as Radford. This source adds the note "with consent of parents", suggesting that Mary Ann had been under 21. Her father William Empson was born in Warsop, Nottinghamshire around 1788-89, whilst her mother Sarah (nee?) was born around 1789-90 in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. They were probably the William Empson and Sarah Whiting who married on July 30th 1810 at Spitalfields Christ Church in Stepney {IGI: Batch M069691}. Mary Ann, according to her census records after 1841, was born around 1813 in London, and her 1851 census entry gives her birthplace more precisely as Cheapside. [...] Mary Ann probably died in 1872 aged "61" {Death Index: Bradford Y. 9b 40, 1872 (June)}. "
Lenton is 1 miles SW of Nottingham centre.
Mary Ann Empson was Felicity's second great grandmother.
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