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Ann Lane (247)
1769 –13/03/1856
Ann Lane (247)
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ANN LANE; 1769 – 1856
We know from Ann’s memorial that she was 87 years of age when she died in 1856 and that therefore she was born in 1769, but the baptismal records for All Hallows Church in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, tell us she was not christened until about 3 years later on 14th May 1772. She was the daughter of John and Sarah Vials.
Ann married on 16th July 1807. The marriage was celebrated in Marylebone in London and her husband was Henry Lane of Berkhamsted. Henry, ten years younger than Ann, had been born in 1779 and his father, also Henry, had established a nursery business in Berkhamsted in 1777, originally specialising in hedging plants which by then had become very fashionable. Henry junior went on to expand the business, as did his son John Edward Lane and later generations of the Lane family, the business continuing until the 1950’s.
Ann and John had four children, the first, a son, John Edward, born 6th April 1808. He was followed by Hervey, born on 12th January 1810 and then two daughters, Ann Susannah, 12 July 1813 and youngest, Emily, born on 1st May 1816.
Prior to 1832 the right to vote was extremely limited. The Reform Act of 1832 gave the vote in towns only to men who occupied property with an annual value of £10, which excluded 6 out of 7 adult males from the right to vote (and all women). The Poll Book & Electoral Register for 1832 reveals that Henry was one of the one in seven who did qualify; he and his family were living in a freehold house on Berkhamsted’s High Street. The Tithe Map of 1839 provides us with the location of the house and garden owned by Henry (and also the nursery and other property that he owned).
The census returns of both 1841 and 1851 also confirm that Henry and Ann continued to live in the High Street. In 1841 their daughters Ann and Emily were still living at home, but by 1851 they had left and Henry and Ann were living on their own, save for 19 year old Mary Blowfield, a domestic servant.
Ann is noted in the 1851 census as a “Nursery Man’s Wife.”
Ann died on 13th March 1856. She was buried in Rectory Lane Cemetery and joined in the grave by Henry when he died in 1865 and also by her son Hervey on his death in 1879.
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ANN LANE; 1769 – 1856
We know from Ann’s memorial that she was 87 years of age when she died in 1856 and that therefore she was born in 1769, but the baptismal records for All Hallows Church in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, tell us she was not christened until about 3 years later on 14th May 1772. She was the daughter of John and Sarah Vials.
Ann married on 16th July 1807. The marriage was celebrated in Marylebone in London and her husband was Henry Lane of Berkhamsted. Henry, ten years younger than Ann, had been born in 1779 and his father, also Henry, had established a nursery business in Berkhamsted in 1777, originally specialising in hedging plants which by then had become very fashionable. Henry junior went on to expand the business, as did his son John Edward Lane and later generations of the Lane family, the business continuing until the 1950’s.
Ann and John had four children, the first, a son, John Edward, born 6th April 1808. He was followed by Hervey, born on 12th January 1810 and then two daughters, Ann Susannah, 12 July 1813 and youngest, Emily, born on 1st May 1816.
Prior to 1832 the right to vote was extremely limited. The Reform Act of 1832 gave the vote in towns only to men who occupied property with an annual value of £10, which excluded 6 out of 7 adult males from the right to vote (and all women). The Poll Book & Electoral Register for 1832 reveals that Henry was one of the one in seven who did qualify; he and his family were living in a freehold house on Berkhamsted’s High Street. The Tithe Map of 1839 provides us with the location of the house and garden owned by Henry (and also the nursery and other property that he owned).
The census returns of both 1841 and 1851 also confirm that Henry and Ann continued to live in the High Street. In 1841 their daughters Ann and Emily were still living at home, but by 1851 they had left and Henry and Ann were living on their own, save for 19 year old Mary Blowfield, a domestic servant.
Ann is noted in the 1851 census as a “Nursery Man’s Wife.”
Ann died on 13th March 1856. She was buried in Rectory Lane Cemetery and joined in the grave by Henry when he died in 1865 and also by her son Hervey on his death in 1879.
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