Tuesday 15 January 2019

Great x4 Grandmother Mary Mutters (nee Marks)

My Great x4 Grandmother Mary (1797 - 1869) was a lacemaker and mother of five.


Mary Marks was born around 1796 in Woodbury, Devon, to Thomas Marks (about 24), a husbandman, and Mary Marks (nee Pearse) (about 29).

Mary was baptised on 4th January 1797 in Woodbury.

Mary was the third of nine children (three sons and six daughters):


  • William  1792 - 1792 or 1806 (1 week or 14 years old)
  • Sarah  1793 - 1810 (17 years old)
  • Mary  1797 -
  • Elizabeth  1799 -
  • Maria  1803 -
  • Thomas  1805 -
  • Jemima  1807 - 1808 (11 months old)
  • William  1809 -
  • Sarah  1815 -


Three of Mary siblings passed away in childhood.

On 9th October 1825, Mary (28), a lacemaker, married John Mutters (20), a carpenter and sexton at Woodbury Church, in Woodbury. Mary was about eight months pregnant when she married.

Mary and John had five children (two sons and three daughters):


  • George  1825 -
  • Elizabeth  1827 - 1854  (26 years old)
  • Mary Ann  1930 - 1848  (18 years old)
  • William  1831 -
  • Thomas Marks  1834 - 1838  (4 years old)


Mary's youngest son Thomas passed away in infancy, aged four years old. Her daughters, Elizabeth and Mary Ann, passed away as young women.

1841 Census:


1851 Census:


In 1862, when Mary was sixty-five, her husband John passed, aged fifty-seven, in Woodbury. He was buried on 14th September 1862, in Woodbury.

In 1869, Mary passed away, aged about seventy-two, in Woodbury. She was buried on 26th December 1869, in Woodbury.

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