Monument to Ann Ballantine, St Luke's Churchyard, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England.
"In Loving Memory of
Ann
widow of
Joseph A Ballantine of Bristol
who fell asleep
Sept 3rd 1884
Aged 77 years."
Ann Ballantine was born Ann Jones in Shapwick, Somerset in 1807 to William Jones and his wife Elizabeth Hockey.
On 18th September 1830 at the Church of St Michael the Archangel, Bristol
Sadly Ann and Joseph were to lose their first son William James Ballantine at the age of 2 in 1837.
Ann and Joseph first appear on the 1841 Census living in Queen's Square, Bristol with their three young children, Jane, Arthur, and Joseph. Joseph Sr's occupation is listed as a ship broker. In 1842 Joseph's ship broker and insurance partnership with Thomas Robson Jackson was dissolved.
On the 1851 Census the family were living at Richmond House in Bristol, Gloucestershire. Living with them at the time are their six children, Jane, Arthur, Joseph, Harriet, Edmund, and Ellen as well as their niece and nephew Elizabeth, and Thomas Jackson. Joseph Sr's occupation is now given as an accountant. In 1852 the family welcomed another daughter, Sarah.
Sadly in 1856 Joseph Arthur Ballantine passed away in Swansea.
Five years later in 1861 the widowed Ann is still living in Bristol with five of her children, Jane and Arthur had left the family by 1861. Harriet had married James Whyte, a provisions store owner in 1859 and had a daughter Annie Harriet born at sea in 1861. Still living with the family is Ann's niece Elizabeth Jackson. Ann received an annuity from Joseph's will.
In 1871 Ann can be found living at 11 Devon Place in Newport, Wales with her son Joseph and youngest daughter Sarah.
1881, just three years before Ann's death, she can be found living with her son Joseph and her daughter Ellen at 24 St Mary's Road, Kensington, the lodgings house run by her eldest daughter, Jane Ballantine.
Ann was to pass away on 3rd September 1884 in Maidenhead, Berkshire.
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