Birth: Circa 1798 Newton Valence, Hampshire, UK
Father: Unknown
Mother: Unknown
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 2 November 1822 All Saints, Headley, Hampshire, UK
Husband: Eli Shrubb (Shrub) 1799-1881
Death: October 1875 Birds Nest Cottage, Headley Wood, Headley, Hampshire, UK
Burial: 20 October 1875 Plot 7-50 All Saints, Headley, Hampshire, UK
Ann Shrubb 1824-a1850
Daniel Shrubb 1827-a1851
Andrew Shrubb 1828-1832
Edward Shrubb 1831-a1841
Benjamin Shrubb 1833-1903
Martha Shrub (Shrubb) [Fullick (Fulleck)] 1835-1905
Emma Shrubb 1837-1852
Esther Shrubb 1840-a1851
William Shrubb 1842-a1891
Marriage of Mary Sims and Eli Shrubb in the IGI on 2 November 1822 in Headley, Hampshire. There are two entries in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 with the same information.
The same information is in Headley Marriages adding the witnesses as William Shrubb and William Bayley.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1937 for the marriage of Eli Shrubb and Mary Sims on 2 November 1822 at Headley, All Saints. "Page 21 Marriages folemnized in the Parifh of Headley in the County of Southampton in the Year 1822 [...] Eli Shrubb of this Parish Bachelor and Mary Sims of this Parish Spinster were married in this Church by Banns with the Confent of [blank] this Second Day of November in the Year One thoufand eight hundred and twenty two [he made his mark, she signed her name] in the Prefence of William Shrubb William Bayley Clerk No. 63".
In the 1841 census as Mary Shrule (sic - in the index, Shrub on the original), aged 35 (rounded down to a multiple of 5), born in Hampshire, and living with Ele (husband?), Benjamin, Daniel, and Edward (sons?), and Ann, Esther, Emma and Martha (daughters?) at Arford, Headley, Hampshire.
In the 1851 census as Mary Shroubb (sic - in the index, Shrubb on the original) aged 51, born in Mawton (sic - in the index, Newton on the original), and living with her husband (Elis), son (William (given as a daughter in the index) and two daughters (Emma and Esther) in Headley, Hampshire.
In the 1861 census as Mary Shrub aged 61, born in Headley, Hampshire,and living with her husband (Eli) at Linsted Farm, Headley, Hampshire.
In the 1871 census as Mary Shrut (sic - on the original) aged 77 (on the original, but 73 would be more accurate), born in Newton, Hampshire,and living with her husband (Ely) at Birds Nest Cottage, Headley Wood, Headley, Hampshire (another family lived at the same address).
Death of Mary Shrub (sic - on the typed original) in FreeBMD in October-December 1875 aged 77 in Alton (2c 97)
Entry in Headley Burials for Mary Shrubb on 20 October 1875 aged 77 in plot 7-50, died near Headley Wood.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1987 for Mary Shrubb on 20 October 1875 aged 77 at Headley, All Saints. "Burials in the Parfh of Headley in the County of Southampton in the Year 1875 [...] Mary Shrubb No. 1276 (near) Headley Wood on Oct. 20 aged 77 7.50".
There are fiftytwo entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Mary Sims.
Entry in The Pastoral Notebooks of Wallis Hay Laverty, rector of Headley 1872–1928
Mary Sims was my second great grandmother.
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