 1828 - 1909 (81 years)
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| Name |
Swan Maria |
| Birth |
1828 |
Sausthorpe, Lincs.  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Death |
7 Jun 1909 |
Amberley, Glos. |
| Person ID |
I120 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
25 Nov 2023 |
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| Photos
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 | Maria Swan
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 | The 'Boston Stump', where Maria would have spent many hours listening to her husband preaching
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 | Maria 3rd from right with her children +Henry Summerhayes. Emily who married Henry Summerhayes is to her left, Henry is left of Emily.
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 | Rev George Beatson Blenkin and his wife Maria Swan
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 | 1851 census for Rev Francis Swan (jnr), and daughters Maria and Mary
The family were living at Sausthorpe.
Mother Susannah was not there.
There are also 5 servants |
 | 1861 census record for George and Maria Blenkin and family
They lived at the Churchyard in Boston, Lincs
George was 39, Maria was 32
With them were children Maria and George, a Linton Uncle and 'Susan Swan' [Susanna], mother-in-law, aged 65 who lived in Oxford.
There are also 4 domestic servants |
 | 1871 census for George and Maria Blenkin and family in Boston, Lincs.
With them lived their 4 children and 5 servants |
 | 1881 Census record for the Blenkin family in Boston, Lincs.
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 | 1891 census record for the Blenkin family at Boston, Lincs.
It is interesting to note that Fanny Hodds, who is a general servant aged 66 in this census, was first recorded as working for the family in the 1861 census when she was 37 years old. So she remained with the family, and presumably was treated as part of the family for at least half her life. She remained unmarried all her life. |
 | 1901 census record for Maria Blenkin (Swan) in Amberley, Glos
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 | Maria Swan
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| Notes |
- SUMMARY
Maria was born in 1828, the 4th child of a wealthy vicar in Lincolnshire, Francis Swan (jnr) and his wife Susanna Linton who was also from a wealthy Lincolnshire family.
Not much is known about her life except through who she married.
In 1855, aged 27, she married Rev George Blenkin, who was the Vicar of St Botolph's church in Boston, Lincolnshire. He had just finished a big restoration of this famous church, and remained it's vicar until he died in 1892. This meant Maria would have lived in the heart of established society in this Lincolnshire town, and their 4 children would have grown up in comfortable circumstances. They lived in the 'church yard' which must mean the vicarage according to census records, and had 4 domestic servants which they could obviously afford.
When her husband died in 1892, Maria moved in the following years to Amberley, a small village in the Stroud valleys in Gloucestershire, where her daughter Emily was married to the local clergyman, Henry Summerhayes.
She died in 1909 at Amberley, and left £4985 in her Will (equivalent to £389,000 according the National Archives calculator), no doubt from the residual wealth of her own family rather than her husband's.
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1851 Census:
Francis Swan, age 63, born City of Lincoln, is Rector of Sausthorpe. His wife is not there on census day, but his two daughters Mary age 19 and Maria age 22 are, both born in Sausthorpe, along with 4 domestic servants.
1871 Census:
George B Blenkin, age 49, (born Kingston-Upon-Hull, Yorks)is Vicar of Boston, living in the Church Yard, Boston. His wife Maria is 42, born Sausthorpe Lincs.
children; Maria C age 14, George 10, Emily 7, Grace 8 months, and 5 domestic servants.
1881 Census:
George B Blenkin, age 59, (born Kingston-Upon-Hull, Yorks)is Vicar of Boston, living in the Church Yard, Boston. His wife Maria is 52, born Sausthorpe Lincs.
children; Maria C age 24, Emily 17, Grace 10, and 4 domestic servants.
1891 Census:
George B Blenkin, age 69, (born Hull, Yorks) is 'Clergy Clerk in Holy Orders', living in the Vicarage, Boston. His wife Maria is 62, daughter Emily 27, Grace 20, and 4 domestic servants live with them.
1901 Census:
Maria is living next to her daughter and son-in-law in Amberley, Glos.
Maria Blenkin, widow age 72, born Sausthorpe Lincs, is living in Whitemoor rd, Amberley, Glos. She is head of the household, and lives there with her son George W Blenkin, age 40, a Clergyman C of E, and three domestic servants.
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1909 Probate record:
BLENKIN Maria, of Whitemoor, Amberley, Stroud, widow, died 7th June 1909... Effects £10,889 resworn £4985.
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