Sanby
The following information about Mary Ann Sanbys family has been kindly provided by (my fourth cousin once removed), Chris Hobbs. Like myself, Chris has spent a long time researching his family history and it is always a joy when fellow researchers find a common ancestor. In our case, Mary Ann Sanby who married James Colley and became my G-G-G-GrandMother.
Chris' excellent and informative website can be found through my links page.
My G-G-G-GrandMother, Mary Ann Sanby was born in 1826. (Her younger brother Henry Sanby was the G-G-Grandfather of Chris Hobbs).
She was the eldest daughter of nine? children born to Joseph and Hannah Sanby. At the age of twenty she married JAMES COLLEY, also aged 20, on 22nd February 1846 in Sheffield.
Mary Ann and James produced five children, three of whom died in early infancy.
On the 1851 census they are living at 71 Brown Street, Sheffield. Incidently, at the time of Henry Sanbys marriage to Agnes Jones, he was also living on Brown Street. Also like James Colley, Henry Sanby was an Edge Tool Grinder. *1
At the time of husband James' death in 1879, Mary Ann was living at 55 St. Stephens Road.
By 1881, Mary Ann was living, as a shopkeeper at 73-75 St. Stephens Road until 1883 when she lived on Victoria Street, Sheffield. She married rat-catcher Samuel Murfitt on 4 Jan of that year.
*1: Brown Street and the surrounding area housed many grinders, hence the small alleyway leading from Brown Street to Shoreham Street is called Grinders Hill.
