The Andrews / Hebblethwaite family tree
Fifth Generation (Great Great Grandparents)
Thomas Johnson & Mary Ann Stevens
Mary Stevens Johnson (1871 – 1950)
Gwendolen Mary Cooke (1901 – 1976)
Betty Hebblethwaite (1931 – 2002)
Stephen Michael Andrews (1959 – )
William VI (1830 – 1837)
Victoria (1837 – 1901)
George V (1910 – 1936)
Thomas Johnson
Thomas is the son of Thomas Johnson and Mary Mason Doubleday and was born on the 14th of May 1838. He was christened on the 6th of January 1839 in Gosberton, Lincolnshire. He possibly died after 1901.
Much of the research done on Thomas and Mary Ann was completed by Betty Andrews (nee Hebblethwaite).
In 1841 Thomas was living at Monks Hall, in Gosberton with his parents and siblings, William, Mary and Ann. There was also another, Thomas A. Smith aged 15 there on the night of the census. In 1851 the family were still living at Monks Hall.
Thomas married Mary Ann on the 2nd of October 1860 in the Anglican church of St. Mary’s in Nottingham. By 1861 they were living in Loverseed Terrace, 80b Union Road in Nottingham. At the address were Mary Ann’s mother Maria (Stevens) Black, her second husband Thomas Black who was the head of the household. Also there were two boarders Charles Windows, aged 27 another joiner and Edward Fardell, aged 24 a baker. By this time Thomas had followed in his father’s footsteps and was working as a joiner. Since Thomas Black was also a joiner it is possible that Thomas worked with him.
On the 11th of May 1861 Mary Ann gave birth to their first child, Elizabeth Ellen at Loverseed Terrace.
During the three years 1861 to 1863 the Johnson family moved to Lincolnshire as their second child, Thomas William was born in 1863 in Sleaford.
Five years later in 1868 the family increased with the birth of Ann, another daughter in Gosberton in Lincolnshire
With the birth of their fourth child, Mary Stevens Johnson, on the 10th of February 1871 Thomas was now a Master Carpenter. Mary’s occupation is given as ‘household duties’.
A few weeks later the 1871 census shows that the Johnson’s were living at 82 Risegate Road in Gosberton. There is also a Robert S Greensmith with the family, who is on trial as an apprentice aged 14.
In late 1872 the couple celebrated the birth of their fifth child, Adelaide Louisa in Gosberton.
In 1874 on the 3rd of April the couple christened all of their children in Gosberton, Elizabeth Ellen shortly before her 13th birthday, Thomas William who was about 11, Ann who was six, Mary Stevens who was three and Adelaide Louisa who was one.
On the 9th of November 1879 the couple’s eldest daughter, Elizabeth Ellen at the age of 18, married William Mason at the Parish Church of St. John the Divine, Horninglow in Burton on Trent in Staffordshire.
In 1881 the family were still at Risegate Road and Thomas was still working as a carpenter. He was employing his son, Thomas William as an apprentice and the three remaining girls were all scholars.
With the marriage of his daughter Ann Johnson to Albert Trickett, a lithographic artist, on the 14th of June 1886 it suggests that the family address might now be 9 Deering Street, Nottingham. Though this is the same address given for Albert. Thomas’ profession is still a joiner at this time. And on the marriage certificate of his daughter Mary Stevens Johnson to Thomas George Cooke on the 18th of August 1888 he was working as a carpenter.
There is some doubt as to what happened to Thomas, according to the notes on Mary Ann Stevens given to Betty by Edna Fox (Nee Mason 1911 – 1994), his granddaughter, she believed Thomas Johnson died of a rupture aged 63, having been brought home out of a field carried on a farm gate. Although actually born 14th May 1838, his age varies on the census records, but this suggests that he died in 1901.
However in 1891 Mary Ann Johnson was head of the household, so it is possible that he died before then. However this does not make him 63!! Also Mary Ann is still classed as married on the census. Could it be that they were actually divorced by now since in the 1891 census there is a Thomas Johnson a 51 year old carpenter, born in Gosberton living at King Edwards Terrace in Lady Wood, Birmingham. He has a wife Anne, aged 45, born in Mount Sorrell, Leicester, and also on the 1901 census a Thomas Johnson listed as living at 107 Highbury Road, Kings Norton, Worcester. He was born in Gosberton and is 62, so his date of birth is approximately 1838-9. Also he is listed as being a carpenter. There cannot be many Thomas Johnson's from Gosberton aged 62 who are also carpenters so I believe that he is our Thomas.
It is possible that Mary Ann did not want the ‘stigma’ of being known as a divorcee when these census’ were completed and still classed herself as married. Also it is possible that the Thomas Johnson in these two census’ never married Anne since I cannot trace a marriage, or indeed that this Thomas Johnson is not our Thomas.
At present, 2016, I cannot trace a death for Thomas, but if Edna was correct then Thomas dying at the age of 63 his date of death is approximately 1901.
Noted events in his life were:
* Living: 1841, Monks Hall, Gosberton, Lincolnshire.
* Living: 1851, Monks Hall, Gosberton, Lincolnshire.
* He worked as a Joiner on 2nd October 1860. According to marriage certificate
* Living: 1861, Loverseed Terrace, 80b Union Road, Nottingham. Living with Mother and Father, Maria (Stevens) Black & Thomas
Black, with her husband.
* He worked as a Joiner in 1861.
* Living: 1871, 82 Risegate Road, Gosberton, Lincolnshire.
* He worked as a Master Carpenter on 10th February 1871.
* Living: 1881, 82 Risegate Road, Gosberton, Lincolnshire.
* He worked as a Carpenter employing his son, Thomas William as an apprentice in 1881.
* Living: 14th June 1886, 9 Deering Street, Nottingham. From notes on Ann Johnson's marriage.
* He worked as a Joiner on 14th June 1886.
* He worked as a Carpenter, According to the marriage certificate of his daughter Mary Stevens Johnson on 18th August 1888.
* Living: 1901, 107 Highbury Road, Kings Norton, Worcestershire.
* He worked as a Carpenter in 1901.
Thomas married Mary Ann Stevens on 2nd October 1860 in the Anglican church of St. Mary's in Nottingham.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Elizabeth Ellen Johnson – (11/5/1861 – 25/1/1937)
ii. Thomas William Johnson – (1863 – Before 1891)
iii. Ann Johnson – (1868 - )
iv. Mary Stevens Johnson – (10/2/1871 – Nov 1950)
v. Adelaide Louisa Johnson – (1872 – 23/2/1961)
Mary Ann Stevens
Mary Ann is the illegitimate daughter of Maria Stevens and was born on the 6th of June 1842 in Shardlow Workhouse, Swarkstone Parish, Derbyshire. She died on the 10th of March 1909 in 19 Northcote Terrace, The Meadows, Nottingham at the age of 66. She was buried on the 12th of March 1909 in Grave 7848, Rock Cemetery, Church Section, Mansfield Road, Nottingham. The cause of her death was diabetes.
Mary Ann Stevens was the illegitimate daughter of Maria Stevens (Stevenson). There is no fathers name on her birth certificate. She was named after Maria's elder sister Mary Ann Stevenson. Details on Mary Ann's birth certificate, shows that Swarkstone Parish Church in Shardlow was supporting her mother, Maria Stevens.
Maria, her mother, would have been 18 years old in 1842, and in her disgrace it is thought she was sent to Swarkstone, Derbyshire. Women who were pregnant and ‘disowned’ by their families were known to enter workhouses as a safe place to give birth to their child. No proof of this can be found as the Swarkstone Parish Chest gives no financial details and all the records of the Shardlow Workhouse, except the Shardlow Union Minute Book 1841 to 1843, have either been destroyed or lost possibly when the Poor Law ended in 1940.
It could be for this reason that no baptism can be found for Mary Ann. She was not baptised in Shardlow Church, or in any of the other nearby villages, and it is presumed soon after birth she would have been baptised in the Workhouse. It is not known how long mother and daughter stayed in the Workhouse, but there is a mention that by the time of her mother's marriage to Henry Davison they would probably have left there. At this time Mary Ann would have been four years old and presumably living with her mother.
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On the 8th of November 1845 her mother Maria Stevens aged 22, Mary Stevens aged 2 ½ and Charles aged seven months entered the St. Marylebone Workhouse in Westminster, London.
On the 1851 census she is listed as the daughter of Henry Davison, though this is incorrect as she was illegitimate. The family of Henry, mother Maria, Mary Ann and Henry’s much younger brother William aged 16 were at ‘House in yard’, Castle Street, St. Peter, Derby.
Very little is known of Mary Ann's early life but by the time of her own marriage she was
living in Nottingham. Mary Ann married Thomas Johnson on the 2nd of October in 1860 at the Parish Church of St. Mary in Nottingham. On the marriage certificate she signed herself as Maryann. She was listed as an underage spinster. Her father was given as Thomas Stevens (Deceased) a bricklayer. After the Banns they were married by the Curate, Robert Alan and witnessed by Charles Windors and Ann Fletcher. Her address is Loverseed Terrace, Union Road'
On the night of the 1861 census Mary Ann and her husband, Thomas Johnson were living with her Mother and Thomas Black at Loverseed Terrace, the address from which Mary Ann had married. Their first child, Elizabeth Ellen was born here on the 11th of May 1861. Both Johnson and Black were joiners and it is possible that they worked together.
Between 1861 and 1864 the Johnson family moved to Lincolnshire possibly South Kyme as their only son Thomas William was born in South Kyme in 1863 this may be since Thomas Johnson had been born in Gosberton, Lincolnshire and all of his previous family had come from Lincolnshire. After this time the family found themselves in Gosberton which always held fond memories for them all.
In 1861 Mary Ann was involved in lace work, a major Nottingham industry, but by 1871 and having moved from Nottingham to Risegate Road in Gosberton, her occupation is classed as household duties. The 1881 census is a bit more accurate on the address and gives it as 82 Risegate Road.
By 1891 she was back in Nottingham at 9 Exchange Court, Mount Street and working in the lace industry again. She is also possibly divorced from Thomas as she is listed as Head, with daughter Adelaide and her husband John Bingham. The census also states married and not widowed so perhaps she didn’t want to indicate a separation from Thomas.
According to the notes on Mary Ann Stevens from Edna Fox, it is believed that Thomas William Johnson, her only son had died by the census of 1891 since Mary Ann is listed as head of the household. Although by 4th June 1887 Thomas William Johnson married Sarah Ann Vinter, so Thomas would not have been head of the household as he would have moved out.
On the 1901 census she is still with Adelaide and her husband at 27 Healey Street, Nottingham, but is now mother-in-law, John is the Head and Adelaide wife with son John W aged 9, daughter Adelaide M aged 7 months, both born in Nottingham, Adelaide was born in the house. Again she is classed as married and not widowed. Mary Ann is still a lace worker.
She died on the 10th of March 1909 in 19 Northcote Terrace, The Meadows, Nottingham, at the age of 66 from diabetes. She was buried on the 12th of March 1909 in Grave 7848, Rock Cemetery, Church Section, Mansfield Road, Nottingham. She is interred with Elizabeth Ellen Johnson, her daughter and William (Crag) Mason, her son-in-law.
Research Notes: Possess
Birth Certificate
Noted events in her life were:
* Living: 8th November 1845, St. Marylebone Workhouse, Westminster, London.
* Living: 1851, House In Yard, Castle Street, St Peter, Derby.
* Married: 2nd October 1860, St Mary's Church.
Address for church appears to read 'from Loverseed Terrace, Union Road'
* Living: per census, 1861, Loverseed Terrace, 80b Union Road, Nottingham.
Living with Mother and Father, Maria (Stevens) Black & Thomas Black, with her
husband.
* She worked as a Lace work in 1861.
* She worked as a Household duties in 1871.
* Living: 1871, Risegate Road, Gosberton, Lincoln.
* Living: 1881, 82 Risegate Road, Gosberton, Lincoln.
* Living: 1891, 9 Exchange Court, Mount Street, Nottingham.
* She worked as a Lace work in 1891.
* Living: 1901, 27 Healey Street, Nottingham.
* She worked as a Lace work in 1901.
* Disease: Diabetes.
