Ann Jackson nee Lee (and formerly Ann Aldous see William Aldous a couple of days ago)
died at her house in Shepperton, MIddx in 1940 aged 92.
Ann was born 1848 in Upperthong near Holmfirth, to a shoemaker.
At age 2 her mother died in childbirth (the child must have died too)
In 1852 there was the great flood of Holmfirth - not sure what impact it had on the family.
By 1861 the family had moved to Glossop in Derbyshire.
Her father had remarried but stepmother died in 1862.
Ann married William Aldous in 1866 in Ashton under Lyne in Lancs
Her first two children were born Fred in Glossop and Sarah 'Sadie' in Penistone in Yorks.
At this point William Aldous seems to have disappeared.
By 1890 she is living at Hyde in Cheshire with Edward Jackson as husband and wife
He was undermanager of the mine.
My grandfather Harry was born this year and his sister Annie a little later.
Ann conveniently lost a couple of years from her age, while with Edward, a younger man.
Edward and Ann married in 1896 in Macclesfield - perhaps Ann waited for the 7 year rule?
The family move around as Edward became mine manager, firstly in Breightmet near Bolton, then Pendleton before moving to Bredbury near Stockport in Cheshire.
Then Edward died through cancer of the Oesophagus (all that coal dust?).
When her son Harry was injured in a pit fall three years later (as undermanager) The whole family Ann with Harry and wife and Annie and husband moved south, joining Sadie who had already done so.
The family Ann, Annie and Annie's husband Noah eventually settle in the house at Shepperton, which Noah built (he was a builder). Annie and Noah had a son named Edward.
Ann died in 1940 as said at age 92
This was the start of a bad period.
8 months later, Edward , aged 15 was killed by a bomb hitting Shepperton studio where he worked. Only two 15 year old boys were killed.
The following month Noah had appendicitis and died.
At least Ann mercifully missed this.
