Mary Besant

   FamilySearch ID: 9NB8-V1R.

  General Notes:

Dates don't match but a 40 year old Mary Branston buried in Affpuddle on 29 Jul 1870. Possibly age not correct?

  Events

• Census, 1841, Affpuddle, Dorset, England. ¹⁰⁰⁵ Farmer

• Census, 1851, Affpuddle, Dorset, England. ¹⁰⁰⁶ Throop - Dairyman age 55. Appears on the census just below Henry Frampton and his family at Oakers Wood.

• Census, 1861, Dairy House, Tonerspuddle. Mary Branston (26, daughter, born Affpuddle)

• Census, 1861, Turnerspuddle, Dorset, England. ⁸²⁸ Dairy House 65. Dairyman.

• Census, 1911, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. ¹⁰⁰⁷

Mary married Thomas Branston, son of William Henry Branston and Mary Ann Woodrow, 17 Nov 1860 in Turnerspuddle, Dorset, England.⁸²⁴ (Thomas Branston was born in 1824, christened 24 May 1824 in Harbridge, Hampshire, England ⁸²⁵ and died 9 Feb 1890 in Ringwood, Hampshire, Dorset ⁸²⁶.)

  Marriage Notes:

Witnesses: Joesph Spicer and Ann Spicer. Thomas' father is "The Late William Henry Branston." ⁸³¹