Great x3 Grandmother Ann Yeo (nee Gliddon)

My great x3 grandmother Ann (1839 - 1873) was a farm servant, housewife, and mother of seven.

Ann was born in 1839 in Okehampton, Devon, to Joseph Gliddon (32), an agricultural and quarry labourer, and Hannah Gliddon (nee Hill) (36).

Ann was the fourth of eight children (four sons and four daughters):

• John  1829 -
• Mary  1831 - 
• Elizabeth  1834 - 1836 (2 years old)
• Ann  1839 -
• Henry  1842 -
• William   1843 -
• Harriet  1846 -
• Thomas  1850 -

All eight siblings were born in Okehampton, but baptised in Northlew.

Before Ann was born, her older sister Elizabeth passed away, aged two years old, in 1836.

1841 Census:

Around 1851, young Ann and her family moved about three miles south west from Okehampton to Meldon.

1851 Census:

In 1860, aged twenty or twenty-one, Ann gave birth to an illegitimate son called Joseph, who it seemed she named after her father. After Ann married, Joseph stayed with her parents, his maternal grandparents.

1861 Census:

On 26th March 1862, Ann (24), a farm servant, married George (27), an agricultural labourer, in Okehampton. They married in the presence of Ann's brother John Gliddon.

On their record of marriage, George was able to sign his name, but Ann left only a mark, implying she couldn't write.

Ann and George had six children (one son and five daughters):

• Thomas 'Tom'  1863 - 1904  (40 or 41 years old)
• Mary 'Mary Anne' Gliddon  1864 - 1941  (76 years old)
• Emily Ann  1867 - 1872  (5 years old)
• Annie  1868 - 1948  (80 years old)
• Ellen  1869 - 1937  (68 years old)
• Harriet  1872 - 1893 (21 years old)

1871 Census:

Sadly, in October or November 1872, Ann's second daughter Emily Ann passed away, aged only five years old. She was buried on the 8th November 1872, in Okehampton.

About three months later, Ann's husband George passed away, aged thirty-nine, in early 1873, in Okehampton. He was buried on 30th January 1873, in Okehampton.

And about three months after that, Ann herself passed away, aged thirty-three or thirty-four years old. She was buried on 30th April 1873, in Okehampton.

I wonder if they all succumbed to the same disease.

Unless relatives took them in, George and Ann's remaining five childre (aged 0 to 9) would likely have ended up in the workhouse. Indeed, in the 1881 Census, Ann's youngest daughters Ellen and Harriet can be found at Okehampton Union Workhouse.