Sunday 13 January 2019

Great x4 Grandmother Hannah Gliddon (nee Hill)

My Great x4 Grandmother Hannah (1803 - 1888) was a midwife and mother of eight.


Hannah Hill was born around 1803 in Northlew, Devon, to John Hill, a labourer, and Elizabeth Hill (nee ?).

Hannah was baptised on 20th April 1803 in Northlew.

It looks likely Hannah was one of several siblings. Unfortunately there were at least two couples called John and Elizabeth Hill having children in Northlew around 1800, and it is impossible to work out which children belong to which couple.

On 25th August 1828, Hannah (25) married Joseph Gliddon (21), an agricultural and quarry labourer, in Northlew. Hannah was about three months pregnant when she married.

Hannah and Joseph had 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 children were baptised in Northlew.

Around 1830, Hannah and her family moved about seven miles south east from Northlew to her husband Joseph's native Okehampton.

In 1836, Hannah's second daughter Elizabeth passed away in infancy, aged only two years old.

1841 Census:


Around 1851, Hannah and her family moved again. They moved about three miles south west from Okehampton to Meldon. There Joseph worked as a labourer at Meldon lime quarry.

1851 Census:


1861 Census:


In her fifties, having had eight children herself, Hannah was a midwife. Did Hannah help at the birth of her grandson Joseph, her daughter Ann's illegitimate son?  The 1861 Census shows Hannah and Joseph took in Ann and her young son. After Ann married, young Joseph stayed with his grandparents.

1871 Census:


In 1881, when Hannah was about seventy-seven, her Joseph passed away, aged seventy-three, in Okehampton.

1881 Census:


In 1888, Hannah herself passed away, aged eighty-five, in Okehampton. She was buried on 11th May 1888 in Okehampton.

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