Mary Ann Bentley? (MMMFM)

[Mary from Italy]

Updated with new information 10/2/2016.

This must be one of the few people to have been born and buried on 29th February

Name - "official" name and what they were known as
Mary Ann Bentley

Date and place of birth
Born on 29th February 1788 in Stafford, Staffordshire

Names of parents
William Bentley and Eleanor/Ellenor/Ellen Shelley

Date and place of baptism - if applicable
Baptised on 1st March 1788 at St Mary's, Stafford

Details of each of his or her marriages - if any
15/10/1813 at Weston-on-Trent parish church, Staffordshire
John Mallet of the Parish of Mancetter, Warwickshire, and Mary-Anne Bentley OTP
By banns, both signed.
Witnesses: Wm Bentley and Ann Tansley

Occupation(s) - if any
Not known

Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK)
1788: Stafford, Staffordshire
1813-1814: Weston-on-Trent, Staffordshire
1815: Baxterley, Warwickshire
1817: Stafford, Staffordshire
1818-1820: Wilnecote/Dosthill, Warwickshire
1823: Wilnecote, Warwickshire
1828: Dosthill/Fazeley, Staffordshire

Date, place and cause of death
Died in Staffordshire, on 25th/26th February 1828, aged 39.
According to one newspaper death notice she died in Dosthill, Staffordshire, on 25/2/1828, but according to another she died in nearby Fazeley, Staffordshire, on 26/2/1828. The burial register gives her abode as Dosthill.

Date and place of burial
St. Michael's, Lichfield, Staffordshire, 29th February 1828.

Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable
None found

Memorial inscription - if any
Not known

I was previously unsure that this was the correct wife of my John Mallet, but the connection is proved by two newspaper death notices, one referring to her as the wife of John Mallet and the other as the daughter of William Bentley of Stafford, and the will of William's widow Ellen, who leaves money to two of the children of her daughter Ann Mallet.

For husband John Mallet, see http://www.genealogistsforum.co.uk/f...ad.php?t=10235

For son Thomas Mallet, see http://www.genealogistsforum.co.uk/f...ead.php?t=3634