Mary Ann Harland

[Jill]

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

Date and place of birth:
30 Sep 1839, Lindfield, Sussex

Names of parents:
James Harland & Elizabeth (nee Jenner)

Date and place of baptism - if applicable:
02 Aug 1840, Horsted Keynes (her mother’s birthplace & where her grandparents lived)

Details of each of his or her marriages - if any:
5 Feb 1861 Holy Trinity, Cuckfield to Leonard Mitchell, witnesses James Harland & Harriet Mitchell

Occupation(s) - if any:
none


Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on
1841: Gravely Colony, Lindfield, Sussex with parents
1851: American Colony, Lindfield, Sussex with mother (father hanged himself in 1848)
1861: Chownes, Cuckfield, Sussex with husband
1871: 2 Oathall Farm, Lindfield Rd, Cuckfield, with husband & family
1881-1891: 10 Colony, Lindfield, Sussex with husband & family
1901: 16 The Colony, Lindfield, Sussex with husband

American Colony/Gravelye Cottages/ The Colony was a settlement set up by the quaker William Allen to provide allotments/smallholdings at affordable rents in the Lindfield area as there was a lot of poverty and no industry in the area. The cottages had been designed by him and he had set up an Industrial School too which is probably where Mary Ann attended.

Date, place and cause of death:
20 Dec 1905, Gravelye Cottages, Lindfield [Haywards Heath], Sussex

Date and place of burial / cremation:
n/k Walstead/Haywards Heath/St Wilfrid's?

Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable:
none

Memorial inscription - if any:
n/k

Link to husband Leonard Mitchell
Link to mother Elizabeth Jenner
Link to father James Harland
Link to son Elisha Mitchell