Eight years after this census she married John Masters (a coal miner) in Barnsley. She records his addresss as School Street, Barnsley. His occupation, as is his father's, is recorded as Miner. They married in St Mary's Parish Church, Barnsley after Banns. Both John and Ann signed the register suggesting they could both read and write. The wedding was witnessed by Harriet Robinson (Ann's mother) and a man called Tom Cauldwell. Ann's father is recorded as Tom Robinson (deceased), whose occupation was Painter.

They had at least their first four children in Barnsley before moving to Ryhope, Sunderland at the end of the nineteenth century (c.1898/1899). John started working at Ryhope Colliery.

John was a reasonably educated man among his peers and ran a betting book on sporting events and used to read newspaper reports of the successes and failures of the Boer War (1899-1902). However, some time after the birth of their last child, Harold in 1907, he was unable to pay out to the winners of the bets and he fled the Sunderland area to return to Barnsley. He left Ann with their nine children, though depending on when this was some of them may have been old enough to work. Some time after this it is rumoured he committed suicide in Barnsley, probably by drowning. I assume the most likely truth to this story is that he did die from drowning but it is uncertain whether it was deliberate. As of today, I have been unable to find record of his death.

When John married Ann Robinson Ann's family considered that Ann had married very well as John was from a relatively prominent Barnsley family. This is perhaps borne out by the fact that John could read at a time when most of his peers could not. After John abandoned Ann when fleeing Ryhope the irony was noted and passed down through Ann's remaining family in Barnsley. Ann remained close to her Barnsley family despite the geographical distance and on more than one occasion members of the Barnsley branch visited Ryhope for summer holidays. On one such occasion John's daughter, Elsie Masters (b.1896), had a quite word with a member of the Barnsley branch to ensure no mention was made of John's death as Elsie's daughters had not been told about their grandfather.

Ann remained in Ryhope with her sons and daughters and finally died on 26th February 1949, aged eighty.