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BIRTH: | 27 December 1816 - Barnsley, Yorkshire |
MARRIAGE: | 17 August 1834 - Silkstone Parish Church, Barnsley, Yorkshire |
DEATH: | 17 August 1888 |
KNOWN ADDRESSES: |
George Yard, Barnsley - 1841 14 School Street, Barnsley - 1881 |
Ann (or "Nanny" as she seems to have always been called) was born on 27 December 1816, in Barnsley, Yorkshire. Her parents were Samuel and Elizabeth Townend and she had five sisters and one brother. In 1834 she marries John Crossland and they go on to have fifteen children though mainly as a result of T.B. they outlived many of them. Their first child, Charles only lives to the age of 55 before dying of T.B. in 1890. Their second child, Robert, died at the age of 21 in 1858. Their third child Harriet lived to one week short of her 87th birthday before dying in 1925. However, her husband died prematurely in 1873. Their fourth child, Hannah, was the longest living, finally dying at the age of 100 in June 1940. However, their seventh child, Emma, and twelfth child, Ann, both died before reaching their first birthdays. All censuses record Ann's husband, John, as a Linen Warehouseman. William Bayldon owned a Linen Manufacturers in George Yard, Barnsley and is listed in Baines's Directory and Gazzetteer Directory of 1822 and both Pigot's Directories of 1829 and 1834. They always appears to be living with their large family, often including their children's wives and husbands and grandchildren. In the 1881 census they are recorded as living with their daughter (Harriet Crossland b.1838), their son and his wife (Sam and Eliza Crossland), and their grandchildren (Jane Robinson, Ann Robinson, Harriet Robinson, Elizabeth Robinson and Andrew Crossland). On 25 March 1887 John dies closely followed by his wife, 14 months later. They are both buried in Barnsley Cemetary in Grave No. R567 19.8.1888. |