Ann Starkey 1809 - 1852

Ann Starkey (1809 - 1852)

Ann Starkey was born on 16 November 1809 in Kegworth, Leicester, where she was subsequently baptised on 1 December. She was the third child of William Starkey and Sarah Marriot. 

On 23 Feb 1826 Ann - at the tender age of 17 - married William Mansfield in Kegworth. We do not have baptismal or parent information for William however there are Mansfields who are Carpenters from Loughborough going back several generations, these are likely candidates.. William Mansfield and Ann had gained a formal license from Thomas Stevenson on 21 Feb 1826. This was necessary because Ann was under 21 and meant that the reading of Banns was not necessary.  The marriage was witnessed by her father William Starkey and her sister Elizabeth Newham.

William and Anne had at least two children :

• Sarah Starkey Mansfield Born 1827 Died 1898. Married Thomas Fullelove 1846

• Robert Mansfield Born 1829. Died 1902. Married Ann Porter 1865

Ann is mentioned in her father will in 1827, where she receives the following bequest - upon the death of her mother.

 ... I give and devise all those my four messuages cottages or tenements with the outbuildings gardens and appurtenances there to belonging an all other my real estate whatsoever situate and being at the top of Mill Lane in Kegworth aforesaid in the several tenures of myself, Henry Young, Robert Osborn and Mary Edan unto John Starkey of Kegworth aforesaid Maltster and Robert Osborn of the same place Brewer their heirs and assigns to and for the several uses trusts and purposes following (that is to say)

Upon trust that they my said trustees or the survivor of them his executors or administrators do and shall permit and suffer my daughter Ann Marnsfield (now the wife of William Marnsfield of Kegworth aforesaid Joiner) after the decease of my said wife to have receive and take the rents issues and profits of the said messuages and herditaments for and during the term of her natural life and from and immediately after her decease upon further trust that they my said trustees or the survivor of them his executors or administrators shall and do as soon as conveniently may be after the decease of my said daughter Ann Marnsfield sell and dispose of the same heriditaments for the best price or prices that they can get or obtain for the same and do and shall pay and divide the money arising from such sale unto and equally amongst the children or only child of my said daughter Ann Marnsfield which shall be living at the time of her decease...

When she give birth to her daughter - Anns daughter Sarah uses the name Starkey, there is a notation on Sarah Ann Starkey's birth certificate that indicated that her father William Mansfield turned out to be a married man. This would explain why both children were using the name Starkey rather than Mansfield and why there is no discernible record of William - who may have just gone back to his wife. It is most probably that a annullment was issued OR William died, because on 23 Jun 1833 has banns read to marry Edward Goodrich in Kegworth. The marriage is also recorded on 15 July in Loughborough, so the . Edward was born in ? on ? and is the son of ? and ?, and worked as a Cooper

Ann and Edward had  7 children

• John Goodrich Born 1833

• William Goodrich Born 1835

• Edward Goodrich Born 1838

• Charles Goodrich Born 1841

• James Goodrich Born 1844 

• Thomas Goodrich Born 1846

• Ann Goodrich Born 1849

The family does appear to have moved around

• The 1841 census shows her children using the name Starkey (rather than Mansfield)

  • Ann and Edward are living on London Rd in Kegworth with their 3 children - John, William and Edward 

  • her son Robert is living with Ann and Edward

  • her daughter Sarah is living with her mother in Mill Lane, Kegworth

• Some time between 1846 and 1849 the family moved from Kegworth to Loughborough

• The 1851 census shows

  • Ann and Edward and their 6 children living at at 139 Ashby Ln in Loughborough 

  • her daughter Sarah married to Thomas Fullelove and living in Tintwhistle, Lancashire, England

  • her son Robert is visiting with his sister Sarah in Tintwhistle

• The 1861 census shows

  • Ann is deceased, whilst Edward living at 143 Derby Square with his new wife Martha and has 4 of his children living with him Edward, Charles, Thomas and Ann 

  • her daughter Sarah is …

  • her son Robert

Interestingly Ann's  mother Sarah does not pass away until August 1850, so it is only at this point that Ann would have become recipient of her inheritance. but she did not benefit from the rent of the property for long passing away Loughborough in the Sept Qtr 1852.

In line with her fathers will, it is likely that the properties were sold and the funds distributed between her children, but this is yet to be confirmed

Edward remarried ultimately passing away in Sept Qtr 1874.

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