Family History

Sex : Female

Date of Birth : 1811

Place of Birth :

Date of Death : 1856

Place of Death :

Number of Children : 5

Ann Stokes was baptised on 2nd October 1811 at Hitchin in Hertfordshire, daughter of Frances Stokes, formerly Everitt, and her husband Edward Stokes, a labourer. Ann was the couple's eldest child. A younger brother, John, followed less than two years later. John's baptism tells us that the family lived at Walsworth, a hamlet to the east of Hitchin parish, then separated from the town itself by open fields. When Ann was only just two years old, her father died, aged only 24. Ann's mother remarried in 1820, when Ann was eight years old, to a Solomon Day. However, Solomon Day died after only four years of marriage to Ann's mother. Ann's mother married for a third time in 1826, to a William Pestell, by which time Ann was about fifteen years old. Ann's mother would go on to have two daughters with William Pestell, who were Ann's much younger half-sisters. Ann was married in 1831, aged nineteen, to a labourer named John Worbey. Later that year they had their first son, John, baptised in Hitchin. At the time of young John's baptism they were living at Hitchin Hill, to the south of the town. By the time their second child, Alice, was baptised in 1834 they had returned to Walsworth. In 1856 Ann's eldest son died as a young man of only 24 years old. Later that same year Ann died aged 45. She was buried at Hitchin on 18th December 1856. She and John had been married for 25 years. John survived her by about nine years.

John Worbey ( 23rd July 1831 - )

Children : John Worbey - Alice Worbey - Fanny Worbey - James Worbey - Emma Worbey

Relationship notes : Hitchin, Hertfordshire