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  Mary FORD
1811-1844
Married Thomas HARRISON

2nd child of Joseph FORD & Elizabeth (Betty) BRACEGIRDLE
  Sister of Thomas John FORD 
 

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Headstone of Grave D.j 21 St Batholomew's

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Thomas & Mary HARRISON 
HAD 1 CHILD

Thomas 1833-1865
NAME Mary FORD
FATHER Joseph FORD
MOTHER Elizabeth (Betty) BRACEGIRDLE
BAPTISM DATE 01 January 1811
BIRTH PLACE Wilmslow, Cheshire, England
SIBLINGS         Hannah 1808-1871 
Eliza (TBC) 1813-yyyy
John (TBC)  1815-1815 
Joseph 1816-1886
Elizabeth 1818-yyyy 
Sarah  1820-1900
Ann 1823-yyyy
John 1824-1914
THOMAS JOHN 1826-1906
EDUCATION Name of School
OCCUPATION Occupation
SPOUSE Thomas HARRISON
MARRIAGE DATE 20 October 1830
MARRIAGE PLACE Wilmslow, Cheshire, England
DEATH DATE 00 November 1844
DEATH PLACE Wilmslow, Cheshire, England
BURIAL DATE 27 November 1844
BURIAL PLACE St Bartholomew's
Grave D.j 21
Wilmslow, Cheshire, England.
CAUSE OF DEATH  info from death cert
KNOWN RESIDENCES   New Road,
Wilmslow,Bollin Fee
1841-1844

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St Bartholomew's Church

 

 

 

 

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Family Memories

Mary FORD was born in Wilmslow in 1810 the second child of Joseph FORD and Elizabeth BRACEGIRDLE.
On 20 October 1830, aged 20, Mary FORD (spinister) married Thomas HARRISON born 1811 (bachelor) at by Banns at Wilmslow Parish Church.  The witnesses were Eliza FORD (sister ?) and Thomas WILSON (husband of Mary's sister Hannah FORD?).

Unfortunately Mary's husband Thomas HARRISON died at age 22 and was buried on 22 April 1833 at Wilmslow, just a month before their son Thomas HARRISON was baptised at Wilmslow on 25 May 1933.

According to the 1841 census, Mary HARRISON (aged 30, occupation -Provision Shop Keeper) was living with her sister Sarah FORD (aged 20) at New Road Wilmslow, Bollin Fee, Cheshire.

Also on the 1841 census - Mary's son Thomas HARRISON (aged 8) was living with his grandparents Joseph FORD (farmer) and Elizabeth FORD (both aged 50) and his cousin Thomas FORD (aged 14) at their farm at Hough Lane, Bollin Fee, Wilmslow, Cheshire.

Mary HARRISON died in 1844 aged 34 and was buried on 27 November 1844 at St Bartholomew's, Wilmslow.

On the 1851 census, Mary's son Thomas HARRISON (aged 17) was listed at 14 Hough Lane Bollin Fee, Altrincham Cheshire, still living with his grandparents Joseph FORD (aged 74) and Elizabeth FORD (aged 62). 

Next door at 13 Hough Lane, Bollin Fee was Thomas's uncle John FORD, Martha and family, and at 12 Hough Lane was his uncle Thomas FORD, Eliza and family.

 

 

 

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Reference:
Marriage Certificate :Parish of Wilmslow Page 103 entry 108
Burial: entry 878