Biography:
Mary Ann Johnson
30/07/1804 –20/09/1886
Mary Ann Johnson
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Plot x299 Mary Ann Johnson (née Skingley) (1804-1886)
Mary Ann was born 30 July 1804 in Coggeshall, Essex to Ann (née Deeks) and Henry Skingley. In land tax records Henry is labelled “Esquire”, meaning he was a gentleman. She was the second of their four children and the only girl.
She married Richard Oliver Johnson, a gentleman farmer born in Earl’s Colne, on 14 August 1828 in Coggeshall parish church.
The couple were to have seven children: Mary Ann (1829), Oliver (1831), Henry Skingley (1832), Joseph Oliver (1833), Edward Oliver (1835), Benjamin Oliver (1837) and Richard Oliver (1839).
In 1841 the family were living in Hay House, Earl’s Colne, Essex a farm of 400 acres where, in 1847, her youngest son, Richard, died aged 8.
The family were still at Hay House in 1851 but moved to Park Hall, Great Bardfield, Essex where Richard died in September 1857, aged 60.
Mary Ann remained at Park Hall and kept the farm going as a “Landed proprietor and farmer of 300 acres employing 12 men 4 boys.” Living with her in 1861 was her unmarried daughter Mary Ann, son Henry, a solicitor, and Benjamin, a lieutenant in the “11th Regiment of the Line of Infantry.” She employed a live-in cook and housemaid.
By 1871 she had moved to London and, described in the census as “Landowner”, was living at 10, Stowe Road, Hammersmith with Mary Ann, Benjamin, now retired from the Army, and Joseph, serving as an infantry captain. She was still there with Mary Ann and Benjamin 10 years later.
She and Benjamin moved to Berkhamsted where she died 20 September 1886 at “Oakland Villa”, aged 82.
Benjamin survived her only until 1888 when he died aged 51 and was buried here with her.
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Plot x299 Mary Ann Johnson (née Skingley) (1804-1886)
Mary Ann was born 30 July 1804 in Coggeshall, Essex to Ann (née Deeks) and Henry Skingley. In land tax records Henry is labelled “Esquire”, meaning he was a gentleman. She was the second of their four children and the only girl.
She married Richard Oliver Johnson, a gentleman farmer born in Earl’s Colne, on 14 August 1828 in Coggeshall parish church.
The couple were to have seven children: Mary Ann (1829), Oliver (1831), Henry Skingley (1832), Joseph Oliver (1833), Edward Oliver (1835), Benjamin Oliver (1837) and Richard Oliver (1839).
In 1841 the family were living in Hay House, Earl’s Colne, Essex a farm of 400 acres where, in 1847, her youngest son, Richard, died aged 8.
The family were still at Hay House in 1851 but moved to Park Hall, Great Bardfield, Essex where Richard died in September 1857, aged 60.
Mary Ann remained at Park Hall and kept the farm going as a “Landed proprietor and farmer of 300 acres employing 12 men 4 boys.” Living with her in 1861 was her unmarried daughter Mary Ann, son Henry, a solicitor, and Benjamin, a lieutenant in the “11th Regiment of the Line of Infantry.” She employed a live-in cook and housemaid.
By 1871 she had moved to London and, described in the census as “Landowner”, was living at 10, Stowe Road, Hammersmith with Mary Ann, Benjamin, now retired from the Army, and Joseph, serving as an infantry captain. She was still there with Mary Ann and Benjamin 10 years later.
She and Benjamin moved to Berkhamsted where she died 20 September 1886 at “Oakland Villa”, aged 82.
Benjamin survived her only until 1888 when he died aged 51 and was buried here with her.
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