The Andrews / Hebblethwaite family tree
Sixth Generation (3rd Great Grandparents)
Henry Davison and Maria Stevens
Mary Ann Stevens (1842 – 1909)
Mary Stevens Johnson (1871 – 1950)
Gwendolen Mary Cooke (1901 – 1976)
Betty Hebblethwaite (1931 – 2002)
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George III (1760 – 1820)
George IV (1820 – 1830)
William IV (1830 – 1837)
Victoria (1837 – 1901)
Henry Davison
Henry is the son of James Davison and was born about 1814 in Chaddesden in Derbyshire. However Henry is not a ‘blood’ relative as he is not the father of Mary Ann Stevens since she was illegitimate. Though he probably raised her as his own because on the 1851 census Mary Ann is listed as Mary Ann Davison.
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Marriage Certificate - Age on marriage certificate only given as 'full age'
Noted events in his life were:
* He worked as a Labourer on 11th May 1846.
* Living: 11th May 1846, St Peters, Derby.
* Living: 1851, House In Yard, Castle Street, St Peter, Derby.
* He worked as a Labourer in 1851.
Henry married Maria Stevens on the 11th of May 1846 in the Parish Church of St Peters, Derby.
Children raised by the couple:
i. Mary Ann Stevens – (6/6/1842 – 10/3/1909)
Maria Stevens
Maria is the daughter of William Stevenson and Sarah Fletcher and was born in 1823 in Nottingham. She was christened on the 28th of March 1824 in Radford, Nottingham and died on the 17th of February 1898 in Smithfield Lane, Hickling in Nottinghamshire at the age of 75. She was buried on the 19th of February 1898 in Hickling.
In this year, 1823;
During a game of football a boy called William Webb Ellis picked up the ball and ran with it, ‘with a fine disregard for the rules of football’. This happened at Rugby school in Warwickshire and a new sport was born, Rugby Football.
Hickling is a village close to the border with Leicestershire about eight miles northwest of Melton Mowbray. Smithfield Lane no longer exists.
The cause of her death was Syncope / fatty degeneration of heart Certified by W. Windley MRCS. Entry number 375, Bingham.
1823 - In this year
During a game of football a boy called William Webb Ellis picked up the ball and ran with it, ‘with a fine disregard for the rules of football’. This happened at Rugby school in Warwickshire and a new sport was born, Rugby Football.
Maria was the second child of William and Sarah but there is some confusion over the surname that Maria used. At times it was Stevenson and at others it was Stevens. Could it be due to Thomas Stevens who was possibly the father of her illegitimate daughter Mary Ann?
On the 6th of June 1842 Maria was living at the Shardlow Workhouse in Derbyshire and gave birth to Mary Ann ‘Stevens’. The birth certificate shows that Mary Ann was illegitimate as no father is given. However on the marriage certificate of her daughter Mary Ann's father was given as Thomas Stevens (Deceased) a former bricklayer.
Maria 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 appears that Maria made her way to London because on the 8th of November 1845 Maria Stevens aged 22, Mary Stevens aged 2½ and Charles aged seven months entered the St. Marylebone Workhouse in Westminster, London. She was discharged, along with her daughter, from the workhouse on the 27th of February 1846. Charles however had died nine days earlier on the 18th of February. He was buried six days later on the 24th aged just eight months according to the burial register. The reason for entering the workhouse is given as Tenants out of place, Inspector reports “refuses to be #######? To her Parish”.
On the 11th of May 1846 Maria married Henry Davison in the Parish Church of St Peters, Derby. On her marriage certificate it gives Maria’s father as William Stevens, Bricklayer. Both Maria and Henry are given as full age. Maria was working as a mill hand and Henry was a labourer.
In 1851 Henry and Maria were living at a House In Yard, Castle Street, St Peter, Derby. Henry was working as a labourer and Maria as a lace mender. Mary Ann is listed as Mary Ann Davison, daughter, suggesting that they were concealing the fact that she was illegitimate. Also there was Henry’s younger brother William who was 16 and 21 years younger than Henry.
On the 2nd of October 1860 Maria’s daughter married Thomas Johnson in the Parish Church of St. Mary in Nottingham.
Between 1851 and 1861 Henry died because at the time of the 1861 census, Maria is listed as living at Loverseed Terrace, 80b Union Road, with her husband Thomas Black. She is listed as Maria Black, together with her daughter Mary Ann Johnson and her husband Thomas Johnson. Thomas Black is the head of the household and there are two boarders as well, Charles Windows a joiner aged 29, and Edward Fardell a baker aged 24. Thomas Black was a joiner, along with Thomas Johnson and Charles Windows. Maria was now working as a lace mender.
However this contradicts the wedding date of 15th August 1864 when Maria married in St Peters Church, Nottingham. At the time of this second marriage Maria was a widow, but listed her father now as William Stevenson, bricklayer.
By 1871 Thomas and Maria were on their own living at 12 Exchange Court, Mount Street, Nottingham. Both of them were still working in the same jobs.
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Seven years later on the 23rd of January 1878 Thomas died in the Union Hospital on Mansfield Road in Nottingham. The Union Hospital was part of the workhouse. Although it appears that the workhouse in St. Nicholas parish was pressed into service as a hospital.
In 1881 Maria was now widowed and living at 7 Exchange Court, Mount Street in Nottingham and she still worked as a lace mender. She had three lodgers, William Mason a married 23 year old joiner, Jervese Linley a 55 year old widower who works as a painter and Samuel Buxton a 22 year old unmarried warehouse man.
On the 9th of January 1882 in St. Thomas’ in Nottingham Maria married for a third time. Her new husband was William Rippin, seven years younger than her who worked as a hawker. William was born in Hickling.
In 1891 the couple lived alone in Smithfield Road in Hickling. Maria was not working at this time, but William still worked as a hawker.
On the 17th of February 1898 Maria passed away at the age of 75.
Noted events in her life were:
* Died as Maria Rippin
* Living: 6th June 1842, Shardlow Workhouse, Swarkstone Parish, Derbyshire.
Since this is the place of birth of Mary Ann
* Living: 8th November 1845, St. Marylebone Workhouse, Westminster, London.
* Living: 11th May 1846, St Peters, Derby.
* She worked as a Mill Hand on 11th May 1846.
* Married: 1st marriage, 11th May 1846, St Peters Parish Church, Derby.
* Living: 1851, House In Yard, Castle Street, St Peter, Derby.
* She worked as a Lace Mender in 1851.
* Living: 1861, Loverseed Terrace, 80b Union Road, Nottingham.
* Married: 2nd Marriage, 15th August 1864, St Peters Church, Nottingham.
Married Thomas Black, who was born 1809 or 11/12 at Walcot, Lincs.
Thomas Black died 23 January 1878 in Union Hospital and is buried in the General Cemetery.
* Living: 1871, 12 Exchange Court, Mount Street, Nottingham.
* She worked as a Lace Mender in 1871.
* Living: 23rd January 1878, 7 Exchange Court, Mount Street, Nottingham.
At time of the death of her second husband Thomas Black
* Living: 1881, 7 Exchange Court, Mount Street, Nottingham.
* She worked as a Lace Mender in 1881.
* Living: 1891, Smithfield Lane, Hickling.
* Married: 3rd Marriage, 9th January 1892, St Thomas.
Maria’s children were:
i. Mary Ann Stevens – (6/6/1842 – 10/3/1909)
ii. Charles Stevens – (Apr 1845 – 18/2/1846)
Maria married Henry Davison on the 11th of May 1846 in Parish Church of St Peters, Derby.
Maria married Thomas Black on the 15th of August 1864 in St Peters Church, Nottingham.
Maria married William Rippin on the 9th of January 1882 in St. Thomas' Church, Nottingham.
William Rippin
William was born in February 1831 in Hickling, Nottinghamshire and was christened on the 6th of February 1831 in St Luke's Church, Hickling. He died on the 12th of November 1907 in Bingham Workhouse, Nottinghamshire. He was the son of Samuel Rippin and Mary Ann Lee. Before marrying Maria he married Maria Woodford on the 30th of November 1852 in the Independent Chapel, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. She passed away in 1880 in Hickling.
Before becoming a hawker William had worked as an agricultural labourer.