Martha (Bullough) Morris (1832 - 1873)

Born 1832 in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Died 1873 at about age 41 in Holbeck, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Martha was born in Newcastle upon Tyne about 1832, the daughter of Benjamin Bullough and Jane (Winn) Bullough.^[1]

On 23 January 1855, Martha was the informant for the registration of the death of her grandmother, Hannah (Parker) Winn, in Holbeck two days before.^[2]

On 3 February 1861, Martha married John Morris, a clothier, in the parish of Hunslet St Mary the Virgin. Mary was resident in Mount Place, Hunslet, and John in Armley. Mary's father Benjamin was listed as a potter on the marriage register entry, and John's father George as a grocer. The witnesses were John Bullough and Ruth Hannah Armitage.^[3]

Martha died in 1873, aged 42. Her death was registered in Holbeck in the second quarter of the year.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ See census details and sources on the free space page Thomas Winn and Hannah (Parker) Winn: family census records. Martha was 19 at the time of the 1851 census.
2. ↑ England & Wales General Register Office, GRO Online Index - Death, database entry for Winn, Hannah (Age at death in years: 86), GRO Reference: 1855 M Quarter in HUNSLET Volume 09B Page 179. The register entry, from an image retrieved from the GRO on 16 December 2020, reads as follows. "Superintendent Registrar's District Hunslet. Registrar's Sub-District Hunslet. 1855. DEATHS in the Sub-District of Hunslet in the County of York. No. 153. [When Died:] Twenty first January 1855 Dewsbury Road. [Name:] Hannah Winn. [Sex:] Female. [Age:] 86 years. [Rank or Profession:] Widow of Thomas Winn Coal miner. [Cause of Death:] Senectus No Medical Attendant. [Informant:] X The Mark of Martha Bullough present at the death Dewsbury Road Hunslet. [When Registered:] Twenty third January 1855. ..."
3. ↑ Source Citation. West Yorkshire Archive Service; Leeds, Yorkshire, England; Yorkshire Parish Records; Reference Number: RDP44/3/2. Via West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1813-1935 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Ancestry Record 2253 #18667596. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
4. ↑ England & Wales General Register Office, GRO Online Index - Death (accessed 19 December 2020), database entry for Morris, Martha (Age at death in years: 42), GRO Reference: 1873 J Quarter in HOLBECK Volume 09B Page 217.