Mary Ann KIPPAX

  General Notes:

One of these two births
Births Sep 1852 Kippax Mary Ann Burnley 8e 187
Births Mar 1853 Kippax Mary Ann Burnley 8e 157
From source - John and Mary Ann got married at Hope Chapel, Nelson, in 1879. She was 26, and resident in Nelson. Her father was Joseph, a twister-in, deceased. Does that help to pin her origins down? (Born Nelson, circa 1853. Nelson used to be called Great Marsden.)


Marriages Mar 1879 Burnley 8e 288
Bray John
Kippax Mary Ann

There are two Mary Ann Kippax of same age on both the 1861 and 1871 censuses, so didn't know which was which.
a) daughter of Robert and Ann
b) daughter of Joseph and Mary (born Marsden)
- From the information supplied (see above) it was the second one

1861 census
RG9/3078 F19 P31
Lane Ends, Little Marsden, Yorkshire
Joseph Kippax, Head, Mar, 48, Cotton Twister, Lancashire Briercliffe
Mary do, Wife, Mar, 48, , Lancashire Marsden
Samuel do, Son, Un, 14, Cotton Weaver, Lancashire Marsden
Nehemiah do, Son, Un, 11, Piece Hooker, Lancashire Marsden
Mary Ann do, Daur, Un, 8, Scholar, Lancashire Marsden

1871 census (indexed as Kippar)
RG10/4155 F128 P2
Hibson Road, Little Marsden, Yorkshire
Joseph Kippax, Head, Mar, 59, Cotton Twister, Lancashire Briercliffe
Mary do, Wife, Mar, 59, , Lancashire Marsden
Nehemiah do, Son, Unm, 21, Worsted Piece Looker, Lancashire Marsden
Mary Ann do, Dau, Unm, Cotton Twist Winder, Lancashire Marsden

1881 census
Dwelling: 1 Vine St
Census Place: Litherland, Lancashire, England
Source: FHL Film 1341885 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 3697 Folio 108 Page 88
Marr Age Sex Birthplace
John BRAY M 31 M Holmfirth, York, England
Rel: Head
Occ: Timber Clerk
Mary Ann BRAY M 28 F Nelson, Lancashire, England
Rel: Wife
Alfred BRAY 12 M Marsh Lane, Lancashire, England
Rel: Brother
Occ: Scholar

1891 census
RG12/2973 F107 P16
185 Primrose Road, Bootle, Lancs
John Bray, Head, M, 41, Timber Clerk, Holmfirth Yorkshire
Mary Ann do, Wife, M, 38, , Burnley Lancs
Alfred do, Brother, S, 22, Timber Clerk, Bootle Lancs

1901 census
RG13/3457 F103 P30
Walton Workhouse, Walton on the Hill, Liverpool, Lancashire
Mary Ann Bray, Inmate, Wid, 50, , Lancashire Burnley

Mary Ann's is a rather tragic tale. She married John soon after his parents died, and took on John's young brother Alfred. She had a daughter Evelyn, born and died in 1886. Then John died in 1896. The following year, Alfred got married, then in 1901, as you say, Mary Ann has turned up in Walton Workhouse. I can only assume that Alfred couldn't take her on, as he was by then on his second wife (sister of the first!), his third child, and with a fourth on the way! Mary Ann is thought to have died in the Workhouse a few years later.

Mary married John BRAY, son of William BRAY and Sarah KIPPAX, circa Mar 1879 in Burnley, Lancashire, England. (John BRAY was born circa Jun 1849 in Holmfirth, Yorkshire, England and died circa Dec 1896 in Bootle, Lancashire, England.)