Great Aunt of
W.P. 'Bill' Richardson
Annie was born in the second quarter of 1865, she was the third child
of Matthew Lee and his wife Catherine (nee Walton).
Her parents waited a while to have her baptised, her
baptism was recorded in the Crook Methodist Circuit
Register on 3rd January 1867. The record also says that
the family lived at Roddymoor, Crook and Annie's Dad was
a miner.
Annie was difficult to find in the records, as a
child she did not appear on any census in her family
home!
In the 1871 census she was recorded, age 5, in the home
of her paternal Grandparents Matthew Lee and Mary Thirza
Lee (nee Robson) at High Hope Street in Crook, rather
than with her Mam and Dad and brothers and sisters at
home in Sunniside.
By the time of the 1881 census she was 15, old enough
to be at work and was living and working as a domestic
servant in the home of John Simpson ( a builder) and his
family in Darlington. I believe that there may have been
a family connection with John's wife but have yet to get
proof of that.
On the 29th of July 1889, at the Register Office in
the District of Auckland, she married Thomas Ellison, an
Assistant Schoolmaster. Annie and Thomas were both 23.
Their witnesses were Benjamin Smith and Sarah Ann
'Ellason' (who was possibly Thomas's sister).
In the 1891 census, Annie was 25, she and Thomas were
living in Sunniside and they had a little boy, Stephen
Lee Ellison who was one year old. Thomas was still
listed as an Assistant Schoolmaster.
The 1901 census recorded Annie and her family living
in Milburn Street in Crook. She and her husband were
both 35 and Thomas's occupation was listed as Assistant
Schoolmaster-Board School. The family had grown and they
now had four children. Stephen was 11, Mabel was 9,
Sydney was 8 and Edwin was 4.
Annie died in the third quarter of 1905 at her home
in Milburn Street, she was 40
years old. She was buried at Crook Cemetery on the 26th
September 1905 and the burial service was performed by H
J Holman.
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