Mary (Polly) Tomlinson

Great Great Aunt Polly 1840 Mary Tomlinson

Mary, known as Polly, was born in September 1840 in Bolton and her baptism took place on September 6th, 1840 at St. Peter's (Bolton) conducted by Curate P B Bolin.^1 2 

• Birth Notes

  Mary was 10 months old on 6-Jun-1841 census
  
  TOMLINSON, MARY        BOLTON 
  GRO Reference: 1840  S Quarter in BOLTON UNION 
  Volume 21  Page 77
  
  Also a Christening: 06 SEP 1840   St Peters, Bolton Le Moors, for THOMAPSON, daughter of Richard and Ann.  Richard is a Shopkeeper of Great Bolton, so is clearly the record.
  
  Lancashire Birth indexes for the years: 1840
  TOMLINSON    Mary    BOLTON    Eastern Bolton    EB/5/434

Polly's father was Richard Tomlinson and her mother was Ann Bolton.  Her paternal grandparents were Richard Tomlinson and Alice Allen; her maternal grandparents were Thomas Bolton and Mary Whitaker. She had four brothers and three sisters, named Thomas, Richard, William, Joshua, Alice, Mary and Ellen.  She was the fourth youngest of the eight children.  She died at the age of 72 in 1912 in Bolton.  She was buried on July 30th, 1912 at Tonge-with-Haulgh Cemetery.^3 4 

• Death Notes

  Name: Mary Morris
  Estimated birth year: abt 1840
  Year of Registration: 1912
  Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
  Age at Death: 72
  District: Bolton
  County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire
  Volume: 8c
  Page: 348 
  
  Mary Morris (nee Tomlinson) is buried with her parents Richard and Ann (and seven others) at Tonge Cemetery.

• General Notes

  Mary Tomlinson ("Great Aunt Polly") was living in Shaw Street, Bolton, Lancashire in 1841, aged 10 months, and still in Great Bolton in 1851 (aged 10), and at 19 Shaw Street, Great Bolton in 1861 & 1971.
  
  In 1865, Mary (Polly) was a witness at sister Ellen's wedding.  Then in 1866 she was witness to her brother Richard's marriage.
  
  Unmarried at 40, and lving in with John Ward and Alice (sister) in 1881, but soon got married to James Hibbert later that year who had 3 children from a previous marriage.
  
  By 1991 Polly was widowed, and now living in 5 Junction Road, Deane, Lancashire with the Hibbert Children and younger brother Joshual and his son John. (Name recorded as Hebbert on Census Index)
  
  In 1894 Mary Hibbert married William Henry Morris.
  
  By 1901 Polly (now Mary Morris) had remarried and was widowed again, now aged 60.  She returned to live with older sister Alice Ward at 17 Commission St., Bolton.
  
  She was pictured at the 1901 Mather family wedding.
  
  By 1911, Mary was probably living alone in Bolton, as all other family members had left (although its possible she had lodgers).
  
  Mary (or great Aunt Polly) had married twice; had 8 (or more) step-children, but non of her own. She died in Bolton in 1912, aged 72.
  

Details of Polly's family with James Hibbert

Details of Polly's family with William Henry Morris