Ann WILSHERE FMFM

[Oakum Picker]

Name - "official" name and what they were known as
Sarah Ann WILSHERE (Ann)

Date and place of birth
4/3/1845 Hitchin Herts

Names of parents
Unknown Louisa WILSHERE

Date and place of baptism - if applicable
17/3/1845 Hitchin St Mary, Herts

Details of each of his or her marriages - if any
George Edwin PATEMAN 21/9/1867 Hitchin St Mary Herts.

Occupation(s) - if any
Straw Plaiter

Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on.
1851 Hollow Lane Hitchin Herts Surname WARD
1861 St Andrew's St Hitchin Herts Surname WARD
1871 St Andrew's St Hitchin Herts
1881 St Andrew's St Hitchin Herts

Date, place and cause of death
31/8/1881 St Andrew's St Hitchin Herts Too lazy to find cert.

Date and place of burial
3/9/1881 Hitchin Cemetery Herts

Details of will / administration of their estate N/A

Memorial inscription N/A

[Nell]

Glen

I got all excited when I saw Wilshere as I have a gt x 3 grandmother called Elizabeth Willsher, though on her marriage she is recorded as Wiltshire. But she came from Coggeshall in Essex.

However, I DO live in Hitchin so I know the places you mention. Small world, eh!

[Oakum Picker]

Hi Nell,

I've never lived in Hitchin, my father having left mid C20th but up until a few years ago my uncle was still farming at Offley Bottom. I've found nearly 300 direct ancestors in N. Herts/S. Beds with at least half in Hitchin itself which isn't bad as one of my gps was illegitimate as were many other of my ancestors as can be seen above.

I always check everyone else's entries in anticipation of recognising someone. Not happened yet although some of the Suffolk surnames are familiar.