Ann Pearcey

22.04.1819 - 09.1889. A@TOD 70.

Ann had a son, James Pearcey, aged four when she married Thomas Witty in Beverley on 28th November 1850.

They had five children – Eliza (1850), Robert (1852), John (1855), Sarah (1858)  Thomas (1861). After her husband died, Ann moved to Leeds and in 1881 is living in Princess Street with Thomas who’s a Drayman*, Sarah and her husband John William Spencer and her grandson two year old Tom.

Ann was buried 30th September 1889 in Armley Hill Top Cemetery.  She died from stomach cancer at 23 Westfield Crescent.

* a person who delivers beer for a brewery.