Timeline
Every event in this collection, in chronological order, spanning Ann Hodgson's four marriages and both her sons-in-marriage's estates.
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31 August 1839
Jurby, Isle of Man — Ann's first marriage, to William Quayle, shoemaker.
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4 October 1840
Jurby, Isle of Man — Baptism of Ann's first known child, son of William Quayle.
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1841
Andreas, Isle of Man — William and Ann Quayle's household — and the unresolved puzzle of a fourth household member, Elizabeth.
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3 April 1842
Jurby, Isle of Man — Baptism of Ann's second recorded son.
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2 November 1845
Jurby, Isle of Man — Baptism of Ann's daughter, the first record to spell her maiden name unambiguously as Hodgson.
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4 September 1849
Kirk Andreas, Isle of Man — Burial of Ann's first husband, aged 40.
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December 1849 – April 1850
Lezayre & Ramsey, Isle of Man — Five ecclesiastical-court documents tracing the administration and sale of William Quayle's estate after he died intestate, naming Ann and her three minor children.
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5 November 1850
Lezayre, Isle of Man — Ann's second marriage, naming her father as William Hodgson, labourer.
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1851
Lezayre, Isle of Man — Ann, remarried, with two sons from her first marriage — one recorded under a puzzling name.
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19 August 1851 (private baptism)
Jurby, Isle of Man — Ann's son by her second husband, William Callister — baptised privately.
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16 March 1852
Ballaugh, Isle of Man — Burial of Ann's second husband, aged 54 — leaving her widowed a second time.
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30 June 1855
Lezayre, Isle of Man — Ann's third marriage — this record names her father as William Hutchinson.
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4 November 1855
Lezayre, Isle of Man — Ann's son by Patrick Kneale — her maiden name recorded here as Hudgeon.
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1861
Lezayre, Isle of Man — Ann's blended household: a stepdaughter, a stepson, and her youngest son Thomas, all under one roof.
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4 September 1866
Lezayre, Isle of Man — Burial of Ann's third husband, aged 69.
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10 July 1867
Lezayre, Isle of Man — Ann's fourth and final marriage, aged 49, to the 72-year-old widower Henry Preston.
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16 August 1870, discharged 29 December 1894
Ramsey / Santon, Isle of Man — A £200 debt secured on the same Santon land — not repaid until 1894, confirming Henry Preston had died by then.
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20 August 1870 (registered 23 Aug 1870)
Ramsey / Santon, Isle of Man — Henry Preston places land and debts owed to him into trust — and reveals a previously undocumented daughter and grandson from before his marriage to Ann.
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1871
St Anne (Santon), Isle of Man — Henry Preston's household at Birchfroy — his wife Ann is notably absent, but her daughter Catharine appears as a stepdaughter.
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Made 16 May 1874, proved 14 May 1875 (registered 22 May 1875, No. 117)
Knockfroy, Santon, Isle of Man — Henry leaves everything to Ann outright, as sole executrix — and an account attached to probate hints she later shared money with her own daughter.
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1881
Onchan, Isle of Man — Widowed and working as a charwoman, Ann lives next door to her son Thomas Kneale's young family.
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Made 24 October 1888; Ann died 27 Nov 1888; probate granted 17 Dec 1888
43 Peel Road, Douglas, Isle of Man — Ann's own will — naming all four of her surviving children by name, and confirming their family relationships beyond doubt.