Ann 'Annie' Blanchard

  Notes:

1871 Census (age 2) living in Lissington, Lincolnshire with parents and brother.

1881 Census (indexed under Blanshaw on ancestry.co.uk!) (age 12) living in Lissington, Lincs with parents and siblings.

Info from David Hought:
Born 4th Feb 1869 at Lissington.
Annie went to Lissington school until March 1882.

In 1891 she was a domestic to Frederic Gibson in North Willingham, Lincs, he being a widowed Blacksmith. He was 67 she was 22.
In 1894 Frederic and Annie marry at North Willingham. Her father being Joseph as was his father. Six months later they had their first child Mary. They had Hugh Norton Gibson and later my Grandfather Chares Robert, born July 1900. This info is on the 1911 census. Hugh Died aged 2.
Frederic (correct spelling) lived just short of his 100th birthday in 1922. Besides being a blacksmith the property was a post office and Annie would deliver the post everyday to the local villages. She did this till ill health took its toll. The 1939 register stills shows her running the post office. She died during WW2 and is buried at Market Rasen cemetery. She is a bit of a legend within the family who never stopped working. The property still stands in the village and is opposite the Church, Frederic is buried in this churchyard.

Ann married Frederic Gibson in 1894 in North willingham, Lincs. (Frederic Gibson was born in 1824 and died in 1922.)