Birth: 6 July 1858 Chiddingfold, Surrey, UK
Father: James Heather 1824-1909
Mother: Elllen Marshall 1833-1915
Christening: 19 September 1858 St Mary, Chiddingfold, Surrey, UK
Marriage: January-March 1884 Hambledon, Surrey, UK
Husband: William Matthews 1859-1907
Death: 21 October 1946 SW Surrey, UK
Buried: All Saints, Grayswood, Surrey, UK
Elizabeth Ellen Matthews 1884
Emily Eliza Matthews 1885-1885
John Matthews 1886
Frederick Charles Matthews 1889
Kate Mercy Matthews 1891
Percyn Matthews 1892
Agnes Emily (Emily Agnes) Matthews [Smithers] 1893-1977
Rose Lily Matthews 1895
George Henry Matthews 1900-a1939
I cannot locate a registration of birth.
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Annie Jane Heather baptised 19 September 1858 at Chiddingfold, Surrey, parents James and Ellen Heather.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1912 for Annie Jane Heather baptised 19 September 1858 at Chiddingfold, St Mary, parents James and Ellen Heather. "Page 193 Baptisms folemnized in the Parifh of Chiddingfold in the County of Surrey in the Year 1858 [...] 1858 Sep 19 No. 1540 Annie Jane daughter of James [a] Labour, and Ellen Heather [of] Chiddingfold".
In the 1861 census as Annie Jane Heather aged 2, born in Chiddingfold, Surrey and living with her parents (James and Ellen) and brother (Edward J) in Lake House, Chiddingfold, Surrey. Another family was living at this address.
In the 1871 census as Annie Heather aged 12, born in Chiddingfold, Surrey, and living with her parents (James and Ellen), two bothers (Arthur W and James), three sisters (Ellen, Kate and Mercy) and grandfather (Edward Heather) in Lake House, Chiddingfold, Surrey.
In the 1881 census as Ann Heather aged 24, born in Chiddingfold, Surrey, single, a general domestic servant, and living with Alexandrina Kensit (aged 39, born in Calcutta, India, widow of an officer) and her daughter (Katherine aged 15 and born in Meerut, India) at Waterden Road, Stoke, Surrey.
Marriage of Annie Heather and William Matthews in FreeBMD in January-March 1884 in Hambledon (2A 175).
In the 1891 census as Annie Matthews aged 32, born in Chiddingfold, Surrey, and living with her husband (William), two sons (Charley and John), and daughter (Elizabeth) at Combe Court, Chiddingfold, Surrey.
In the 1901 census as Annie Mathues (sic - in the index, original illegible) aged 43, born in Chiddingfold, Surrey, and living with her husband (Wm), four sons (Charlie, Geo, John, and Percy) and four daughters (Emily, Kate, Lizzie and Rose) in a cottage at Coombe Court, Chiddingfold, Surrey. (West of Chiddingfold).
Her husband of Coombe Court Park, Chiddingfold was buried on 26 October 1907 in Chiddingfold, Surrey and left effects of £56 9s. 11d to Annie Matthews widow.
In the 1911 census as Annie Matthews aged 52, born in Chiddingfold, Surrey, widowed, married for 28 years with twelve children three having died (and this entry crossed out in red), no stated employment and living with her four sons (Charlie, George, John and Percy) in five rooms in Lower Road, Grayswood Haslemere, Surrey.
Five entries in Ancestry Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for Annie Matthews addresses dwelling house, Grayswood, Haslemere, Guildford in 1914 and 1915, and Lower Road, Grayswood, Haslemere, Guildford from 1918 to 1920, other occupants George and Percy Matthews (sons?) in 1920.
In the 1921 census as Annie Matthews born in Chiddingfold, Surrey in 1857 and living with George Henry Matthews (son?) in Haslemere, Hambledon, Surrey.
Five entries in Ancestry Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for Annie Matthews addresses dwelling house, Grayswood, Haslemere, Guildford in 1914 and 1915, and Lower Road, Grayswood, Haslemere, Guildford from 1918 to 1920, other occupants George and Percy Matthews (sons?) in 1920.
Nine entries in Ancestry Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for Annie Matthews address Lower Road, Grayswood, Haslemere, Guildford from 1921 to 1929, other occupants George Matthews (son?), Nellie Adelaide Matthews (daughter-in-law?) in 1929, and eight entries for Annie Jane Matthews addresses The Lodge, Margaretts, Three Gates Lane, Haslemere, Guildford from 1930 to 1938, other occupants George Henry and Nellie Adelaide Matthews (son and daughter-in-law?).
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Annie J Matthews born 6 July 1858, widowed, an old age pensioner, and living with George H and Nellie A Matthews (son and daughter-in-law?) at Margatts Cottage, Three Gate Lane, Haslemere, Surrey.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for Annie Matthews address Margaretts Cottage, Haslemere, Guildford in 1945, other occupants George H and Nellie A Matthews (son and daughter-in-law?).
Death of Annie J Matthews in FreeBMD in October-December 1946 aged 89 in Surrey SW (5g 859).
Entry in Find a Grave for Annie Jane Matthews died 21 October 1946 and buried in All Saints, Grayswood, Waverley, Surrey. "In Loving Memory of/Our Dear Mother/Annie Jane Matthews/Who Fell Asleep Oct. 21st 1946/Aged 89."
There are forty six entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Annie Jane Heather.
Annie Jane Heather was the mother of Agnes Emily Matthews, wife of William Smithers, my tenth cousin once removed.
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