 1811 - 1893
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| Born |
1811 |
Crewkerne, Somerset  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
15 Feb 1893 |
Ealing, London |
| Person ID |
I184 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
31 Aug 2013 |
| Family |
Summerhayes John, b. 1809, Buckland St Mary , d. 1863, Crewkerne, Somerset |
| Married |
19 Mar 1831 |
Chard, Somerset |
| Children |
| > | 1. Summerhayes Rev Julius, b. 1832, Crewkerne, Somerset , d. 23 Apr 1903, Isle of Wight |
| | 2. Summerhayes Harry, d. 1920, Ealing, London |
| | 3. Summerhayes Mercy, b. 1838, Crewkerne, Somerset , d. 1920, Limpsfield |
| | 4. Summerhayes Thomas, b. 1833, Crewkerne, Somerset , d. 1875, South Africa |
| > | 5. Summerhayes William, b. 1835, Crewkerne, Somerset , d. 1912, Thame |
| | 6. Summerhayes John, b. 1837, Crewkerne, Somerset , d. 1837, Crewkerne, Somerset |
| | 7. Summerhayes John, b. 1840, Crewkerne, Somerset , d. 1863, Seaton |
| | 8. Summerhayes Mary, b. 1846, Crewkerne, Somerset , d. 1849, Crewkerne, Somerset |
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| Last Modified |
24 Nov 2012 |
| Family ID |
F78 |
Group Sheet |
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| Notes |
- We don't know anything about Mercy's family in Chard, Somerset, but her village was about 3 miles away from her future husband John's home village of Buckland St Mary. She is supposed to have been omne of his music pupils, even though she was only a couple of years younger, which shows both that her family must have been able to afford music lessons and also that she was musical herself. After they married she bore 8 children to her music teacher husband, and they lived in Pople's Well in Crewkerne, which is a set of cottages in a dip below the school where he taught, on the edge of town.
After John died in 1863 Mercy moved to London, and showed both determination and some financial stability in setting up a small school. It was on the same road in Ealing where her son Julius was the Vicar, and had 10 students and 4 staff a couple of years before she died.
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The marriage in 1831, Chard, comes from someone elses family tree, no primary source seen to prove it. Chard had 3 independent chapels then, so no C of E church
1841 Census:
The Summerhayes family are living in Popes Well, Crekerne.
John Summerhayes is head, aged 30, a 'professor of music'
Mercy is also aged 30. Children;
Julius aged 9
Thomas aged 7
William aged 6
Mercy Eliza aged 3
John aged 1
1851 Census:
John Summerhayes, age 42, Professor of Music (born Buckland St Mary) lives at Popes Well in Crewkerne, with his wife Mary [sic] age 41 (born Chaffcombe?). Children;
Thomas age 17, occupation Sailor
William age 15
Mercy Eliza age 12
John Henry age 10
Virtue wilkins a visitor aged 33
1861 Census:
John Summerhayes, age 52, Professor of Music (born Buckland St Mary) lives at Popes Well in Crewkerne, with his wife Mary [sic] age 50 (born Chaffcombe?). Children;
Mary E age 22
John age 20, student
Henry age 18, medical student
Virtue Wilkins, sister-in-law, landowner
Harriet Lombard, age 27, house servant
1881 Census:
Mercy Summerhayes is head of a household in Mattock Lane, Percival Place, Ealing. She's an Annuitant widow age 69, born in Chard, Somerset.
With her lives Mercy Summerhayes her daughter, unmarried, age 42 and a schoolmistress born in Crewkerne.
Also there are a French governess, 3 scholars age 12-16, a cook and a housemaid.
So Mercy seems to be running a small school.
* Mattock Lane is right beside St Johns church in Ealing, where her son is the vicar in the 1881 Census, so the family are together.
1891 Census:
Mercy Summerhayes is head of the household as a widow, 'living on own means' in No 7 Mattock Lane, Ealing, age 81, born Chard in Somerset.
Also there is Mary Eliza, age 52, schoolmistress. Its a very large household with a total of 17 people, and looks like a school. There are 2 governesses in their 20s - one a teacher of English, one of French - and 10 students from age 10 to 17, including 'granddaughter Minnie(something?) Summerhayes age 15. There are also 3 domestic servants.
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Record of death 1893 Jan-Mar:
Mercy Summerhayes, Brentford, age 83
Death notice in the Argus, Melbourne, Australia (Friday Apr 14th 1893):
'SUMMERHAYES.?On the 15th February, at Beresford-house, Ealing, Middlesex, Mercy, widow of John Summerhayes, of Crewkerne, aged 83 years. Deeply loved by all who knew her.'
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