Mary Ann CHEER [767]

  General Notes:

Rosemary Filsell records Mary Ann's birth abt 1800 and death 9 Mar 1890 and buried Langley.

The Beale Family Tree record the surname as Cheers and also Ann & Samuel as born 1830 although 1841 Census have them as 11 & 12y?
Foster & Beal Family Tree on Ancestry.com records Mary Ann's birth abt 1806 Buck, and her death as Dec 1890 Aylesbury. The Beal Family Tree record a final child, Betsy Elizabeth Thorn b 1874 - Perhaps William married again! (I think Betsy is a grandchild, dau of Samuel Thorn)

Langley (also known as Langley Marish) is a village in the authority of Slough, Berkshire in South East England. The name "Marish" has no association with a marsh but is manorial in origin, the manor having been held by the family of Mareys or, in Latinised form, Marisco. Christine de Marisco held the manor of Langley on behalf of the Crown between 1282 and 1311 during the reign of Edward I. The village formed part of a much larger area known as Langley Marish. The area stretched from as far as Gerrards Cross down to Colnbrook.
Until boundary reorganisation in 1974, Langley was in the county of Buckinghamshire. The village gets the the unfortunate distinction of being called "The Straggling Village".
The meaning of the word Langley comes from two old English words Lang meaning Long and Leah meaning wood or clearing. The area was made up of a number of these so called clearings. The original clearings; Middle Green, Horsemoor Green, George Green, Sawyers Green and Shredding Green developed into small enclaves of housing and were eventually merged into one larger village centred around the church in St Mary's Road. These clearings no longer exist, however have been adopted in street names or much smaller green fields.

The original In Memoriam card reads:
In Loving Memory of MARY ANN THORN, Who departed this life, March 9th, 1890, IN HER 90th YEAR. INTERRED IN LANGLEY CHURCHYARD.
This troublesome head is at rest, Its aching and thinking is o'er, Its quiet immovable breat Is heaved by affliction no more.

  Other Records

• Census: England, 6 Jun 1841, George Green, Langley, Bucks. Mary Ann is recorded as Wife age 35 born in County.

• Census: England, 30 Mar 1851, George Green, Langley, Bucks. Mary Ann is recorded as Wife age 43 born Windsor Berks and described as Ag Lab.

• Census: England, 7 Apr 1861, George Green, Langley, Bucks. Mary Ann is recorded as Wife age 61 born Langley.

• Census: England, 2 Apr 1871, George Green, Langley, Bucks. Mary ann is recorded as Wife age 66 born abt 1805 Windsor, Berks and described as Labourers Wife.

• Census: England, 3 Apr 1881, "The Bucks County Lunatic Asylum", Stone, Bucks. Mary Ann is recorded as Wife age 78 born about 1803 at Windsor and described as Wife of Lab in Brickfields Aylesbury; situation lunatic patient.

Mary married William THORN [766] [MRIN: 257], son of William THORN [2961] and Elizabeth KING [2962], on 21 Aug 1826 in Langley Marish, Bucks, England. (William THORN [766] was born about 1799 in Langley, Bucks, England, died on 15 Jun 1885 in Eton, Bucks, England and was buried in Langley Churchyard, Langley, Bucks, England.)