Mary Ann Wheeler

The Lamberhurst parish records show that a Mary Hickmott gave birth to a first son, James Hickmott, at Lamberhurst in 1809 and a second son, Thomas Hickmott, at Lamberhurst in 1813. There was no indication of the father in either case. Although we have not been able to confirm this Mary is Thomas and Elizabeth's daughter, it does seem possible given the absence of any other obvious contenders and in light of the fact Mary doesn't seem to have married until 1814 (the registers show that a Mary Hickmott married George Wheeler, an agricultural labourer, at Lamberhurst on 2 June 1814). The 1841 census shows George (60) and Mary Wheeler (50) living at Windmill Field at Tunbridge Wells (next door to a James and Mary Goldsmith and their daughter). By the time of the 1851 census George had died. Mary, then a 56 year-old widow and laundress who was born at Lamberhurst,was still living at Tunbridge Wells with a 43 year-old lodger, Thomas White, from Wiltshire. The Catherine House Records show a Mary Ann Wheeler died in the Tonbridge district of Kent in the January quarter of 1854 (volume 2a, page 234).

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