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Ann Mather

sourced from Bolton Library.

BURIAL - James and Martha Mather

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Individual Picture Notes
- Burials in grave 273:
  Betty Mather: 18-7-1813
  Thomas Mather 10-7-1823
  James Mather 26-2-1850
  Martha Mather 18-8-1884
  Ann Mather 31-1-1919

Ann was born in September 1842 in Breightmet and her baptism took place on April 2nd, 1843 at St. Peter's (Bolton).¹

Birth Notes
- Lancashire Birth indexes for the years: 1842
  MATHER    Ann    AUSTIN    Tonge with Haulgh    TWH/3/109
  
  MATHER, ANN        AUSTIN
  GRO Reference: 1842 S Quarter in BOLTON UNION
  Volume 21 Page 161
  
  Name:    Anne Mather
  Baptism Date:    2 Apr 1843
  Baptism Place:    Bolton-le-Moors, St Peter, Lancashire, England
  Father:    James Mather
  Mother:    Martha Mather
  Reference Number:    GB127.L243/1/3/16

Ann's father was James Mather and her mother was Martha Austin. Her paternal grandparents were John Mather and Ann Brabin. She had two brothers and three sisters, named John, Thomas, Elizabeth, Ellen and Mary. She was the fifth oldest of the six children. She died at the age of 76 on January 31st, 1919 in Breightmet. Her burial was at the St. Matthew (Little Lever).²²

Death Notes
- James and Martha and family, (including James's parents Thomas and Betty) were buried at St. Mathews, Little Lever in grave 273.
  
  Ann died at Breightmet where she lived with her mother.
  
  Probate:
  MATHER Ann of 468 Bury Road, Breightmet-within-Bolton, Lancashire, Spinster died 31 January 1919. Probate London 28 February to James Watts Schofield provision merchant and James Mather commercial traveller.

General Notes
- Ann lived with her mother all her life. She never married and appears to have lived at Breighmet all her life.
  
  In 1861, Ann (18) waa with her mother and siblings.
  
  In 1881 Ann was an assistant for her mother, a Shop Keeper.
  
  Ann must have been wealthy as living on her own account in 1901 with a servant, Margaret A Howart.
  
  In 1911, Ann of 573 Bury Road, Tonge, Bolton was still a Grocer, 68 and unmarried with Emily Lisbnt (41 widow) her general domestic servant.
  
  In 1919, Ann of 468 Bury Road, died a spinster, leaving £747.

Ancestor Pedigree Chart
- Thomas Mather
  - b.1740 in Radcliffe d.10 Jul 1823 in Darcy Lever
  
  John Mather
  - b.1778 in Breightmet d.1855 in Little Bolton
  
  Betty Thornley
  - b.1743 in Radcliffe d.18 Jul 1813
  
  James Mather
  - b.Jul 1803 in Lancashire d.26 Feb 1850 in Tonge-with-Haulgh
  
  Ann Brabin
  - b.Oct 1773 in Breightmet d.Mar 1822 in Breightmet
  
  Ann Mather
  - b.Sep 1842 in Breightmet d.31 Jan 1919 in Breightmet
  
  Martha Austin
  - b.~ 1807 in Little Lever d.10 Aug 1884 in Little Lever

¹ 1851 UK Census
² Burial Records - St Mathew's