Ann Livesay (Bennett) Millns (1794 - 1871)

Born 1794 in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England

Ancestors

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Biography

Ann was baptised on 28 October 1794 at Spalding in the midst of the crisis in which Henry Bennett, her father, lost all his drainage works and became bankrupt. She was adopted or cared for by her Godparents, the Livesay family, hence her middle name. Richard Livesay painted the portrait of Henry Bennett still held by the family, around 1789 when Henry married. At that stage Henry was quite well-to-do and able to afford to patronise Livesay. Livesay also painted the son Henry and this was probably done shortly before Livesay died in 1823. Ann Livsay Bennett married Robert William Millns of Long Sutton in 26 June 1839 at Holbeach. In 1841 Pigot’s Directory Robert Millns was a wine and spirit merchant of The Rose Inn in High Street, Long Sutton. His father Robert Millns of Sutton Washway in Long Sutton, innkeeper, was in trouble with creditors in May 1815 and forced to sell property. [Holbeach, 1 May 1815] In 1851 Ann was a wine and liquor merchants wife age 56 living in High Street Sutton St Mary with one general servant. In 1861 Robert W Mills 47 was a wine and spirit merchant living at Whittmore Street Whittlesey with Ann L 66 and a servant Charles Bennett Lloyd remembered her well; “a disagreeable old lady.” [[CB Lloyd notes] They apparently had no issue. Ann died on 28 February 1871 leaving her estate, valued under £50. to her husband Robert William Millns wine and spirit merchant of Whittlesey. He was a wine and spirit merchant of Whitmore Street, Whittlesey in 1871, aged 57, widower, with a housekeeper Eliza Rollitt 29 and a servant. [census] Robert married secondly Eliza Rollitt late in 1871 at Grantham, bap 24 July 1842 daughter of Charles Rollitt and Eliza Beck. His sister Louisa born in Long Sutton was age 65 in 1881 an annuitant living with a servant at Gracious Street Whittlesey. In 1881 Robert W Millns spirit merchant 67 lived with wife Eliza 40 from Navenby, Lincs, and a servant, in Whitmore Street Whittlesey. Louisa died in 1889 at Whittlesey aged 73. Robert died in 1889 at Whittlesey aged 76. In 1891 Eliza 50 a widow lived on her own means with a niece Dorothy L Silverhorn 9 from London in Governor st terrace Whittlesey. In 1901 Eliza 59 was living by herself at 14 Gracious Street Whittlesey. Eliza died at Whittlesey in 1907. [Later notes from Shillaker on Ancestry and Shillaker Universal Tree]

Sources

• "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N1S4-N9Z : 9 March 2018, Ann Liwesy Bennett, ); citing v 7, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 1,542,019.

Baptism in Spalding parish register. Marriage in Holbeach parish register. 1841 to 1901 census. Probate 1871.