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b.1822-d.1902
Mary Ann’s death certificate states that she was an 80-year-old widow of Barnes unknown of Hackney Union Infirmary when she died from senile decay on 16th December 1902 in the Horton Asylum in Epsom, Surrey.
No online record has been found as to when Mary Ann was admitted into the Hackney Union Workhouse, but she was discharged from there into the infirmary on 5th November 1900. No infirmary discharge record has been found.
The 1901 Census was taken on the night of 31st March. Whether Mary Ann was still in the Hackney Union Workhouse at the time is uncertain, as no record has been found for her, but on 5th June 1901 Mary Ann was discharged again from there into the infirmary. She was then admitted into the Hoxton Asylum, on 25th June 1901.
Mary Ann was discharged from Hoxton Asylum into the care of Horton Asylum in Epsom, Surrey, on 14th October 1902. Her stay there was only a couple of months before she died. Her body was buried in grave 92 in the Horton Estate Cemetery on 22nd December 1902.
Possible life of Mary Ann Barnes?
After tracking the lives of these four different ‘Mary Ann Barnes’:
- Mary Ann Barnes, nee Lawrence
- Mary Ann Barnes, nee Bowman
- Mary Ann Barnes, nee Winchester
- Mary Ann Barnes of 5 Gee Street
- Mary Ann Barnes, nee Wearn,
I believe that the following could possibly be ‘our’ Mary Ann.
Aged 26, Mary Ann Bailey, along with 11-year-old Emma Bailey, appear in the 1851 Census as visitors at 27, Store Street, St Giles in the Field, Holborn, Middlesex, the home of William James Barrett, a builder. William had been born c1815 in St Ann’s, Middlesex. Mary Ann had been born c1825 in Marylebone, and Emma in 1840 in Pancras. Their exact relationship is unknown, as is their relationship to William who appears to be living with Mary Ann in every census except the 1871 one.
The following year on 25th October Mary Ann married widower Charles Benjamin Barnes who was working as a commercial traveller. Charles’ first wife had also been named Mary Ann (nee Wearn). The marriage took place in St Giles in the Field Church and the couple both said that they were living at 27 Store Street. Mary Ann’s father was recorded as being William Bailey, an upholsterer, and Charles’ father as John Barnes, a yeoman.
While still living in Store Street, their son Charles Peplow Bassett Barnes was born on 1st October 1856 and baptised on 27th April 1857. When their second son William Bassett Barnes was born on 19th June 1858 and baptised on 30th December, they were living at 110 Camden Road Villas. Both boys were baptised in St Giles in the Field Church.
The 1861 Census recorded the family, and William Bassett, as living together at 110 Camden Road Villas, and that Charles was a commercial traveller in woollen goods.
By 1871, they had moved to 11 St Augustine’s Road, St Pancras East. Charles, aged 55, was recorded as Benjamin in this census and his occupation as a ‘Woollen Draper’. Mary Ann was aged 45 and their son Charles was 14 and William was 12. William Bassett was not listed as living with them.
The 1881 census was taken on the night of 3rd April and William Bassett was back living with the Barnes family at 11 Augustine ‘s Road. Charles was described as a ‘Woollen Warehouseman’ and Charles junior as a ‘Woollen Draper’. Son William was working as a builder as was William Bassett. Three months later, on 26th July, Mary Ann’s husband Charles died.
Mary Ann continued to live in number 11, and the 1891 census recorded her as a widow living on her own means. Son William and William James Bassett were also living there, as well as Mary Ann’s nieces Ida Beatrice Bailey aged 28, and Effie Lilian Bailey aged 18. Mary Ann’s son Charles was working in Queensland, Australia.
William Bassett died at home on 12th February 1895. Probate of his effects valued at £108 9sh 2d was granted to Mary Ann.
The last sighting of this Mary Ann living at 11, St Augustine’s Road, was in the 1897 Electoral List. After that the next possible record was that of the previously mentioned discharged to the Hackney Union infirmary on 5th November 1900.
Charles junior returned to England and died in The Royal Hotel in Southend, Essex, in May 1897. Probate of his effects valued at £2725 15sh 7d was granted to his brother William. The 1901 Census recorded that William was living in Prittlewell, Essex, and that his cousin Ida Bailey was visiting him. William died in 1911 in Essex.
Maybe other records will come to light to confirm if Mary Ann Bailey was ‘our’ Mary Ann Barnes.
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