Mary Dewey
(1822-1883)

Mary Dewey (later Mary Whetstone) was the fifth of the six children of William Dewey and his wife Ellen Markham of Witchford, Cambridgeshire, England.

She married agricultural labourer John Whetstone of Witchford, Cambridgeshire and they settled down in the village's Main Street to raise a family of seven children.

On the 1861 Witchford census, Mary and her husband John are shown as living with her widowed father, William Dewey. Mary's mother had died in 1856.

John pre-deceased Mary in 1880, and was buried on the same day as their granddaughter Eliza Ann Whetstone who was just 8 months old. Mary followed him to the grave in June 1883, with another granddaughter - 9 year old Sarah Whetstone pre-deceasing her by just a few weeks.

Life Events

Born

• circa 1822 in Witchford, Cambridgeshire, England.

Baptised

• 24th November 1822 at St. Andrew's Church, Witchford, Cambridgeshire, England.

Married

• John Whetstone (1821-1880) on 26th March 1844 at St. Andrew's Church, Witchford, Cambridgeshire, England.

Children

• Thomas Whetstone (1845-?)
• John Whetstone (1847-?)
• James Whetstone (1850-?) married Rachel Seymour (1852-?)
• Ellen Ann Whetstone (1853-?)
• Sarah J Whetstone (1856-?)
• Robert Whetstone (1860-?)
• William Whetstone (1862-?)

Census and Residence

• 1841: 19yrs, Witchford, Cambridgeshire, England.
• 1851: 28yrs, Main Street, Witchford, Cambridgeshire, England.
• 1861: 41yrs, Main Street, Witchford, Cambridgeshire, England.
• 1871: 48yrs, Witchford, Cambridgeshire, England.
• 1881: 58yrs, Main Street, Wentworth, Cambridgeshire, England.

Death

• During June 1883 in Witchford, Cambridgeshire, England, aged 62 years.

Burial

• 14th June 1883 at St. Andrew's Church, Witchford, Cambridgeshire, England.