Methodist of South Hampstead, active 1886.
Our colleague, Andrew Behan, believes he has identified the Mrs Palfreman whose name was carved on the foundation stone at Holly Park Methodist Church, Holly Park, London, N4.
The birth of Mary Ann Bidgood was registered in the 1st quarter of 1838 in the Bristol Registration District, Gloucestershire, which means she could have been born in late 1837 or early 1838. She was a daughter of John Fry Bidgood and Augusta Bidgood née Luce (1811-1867).
In the 1841 census she is shown as Mary Ann Bidgood, aged 3 years and living in Wine Street, Bristol, with her parents and three siblings: Louisa Bidgood (1833-1918), aged 8 years; Ellen Augusta Bidgood, aged 5 years and William Luce Bidgood, aged 2 years. Her father was described as a woollen draper. Electoral registers in 1847 show her father registered as householder at Ellbroad Street, Bristol and in the 1850 edition of Hunt & Co's Directory of Bristol he is listed at Racket Court, Upper Maudlin Street, Bristol.
When the 1851 census was undertaken she was shown as Mary Ann Bidgood, aged 13 years and living in the Tea House, Maudlin Lane, Bristol, with her widowed mother, who was described as a publican, together with four siblings: Louisa Bidgood, aged 17 years and a dressmaker; Ellen Augusta Bidgood, aged 15 years and a milliner; William Luce Bidgood, aged 9 and Emily Matilda Bidgood, aged 1 year.
She was listed in the 1861 census as Mary A. Bidgood, aged 23 years and one of 13 assistant millineresses living at 56 Lower Brook Street, Westminster, Middlesex (now Greater London), the home of Eliza Hakewill, a millineress, together with a cook, a housemaid and a female general servant.
On 2 August 1862 she married Frederick Henry Palfreman (1838-1919) at St George's Church, Hanover Square, Westminster, where in the marriage register she is shown at Mary Ann Bidgood of full age and a spinster, living at Brook Street, Westminster, whilst her husband was described as of full age, a bachelor and an office clerk, residing at South Moulton Street, Westminster, the son of Charles Palfreman, a school master.
She was shown as Mary A. Palfreman, aged 33 years, in the 1871 census living in Vionville, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, Gloucestershire, with her husband who was listed as aged 34 years and a commercial traveller who had been born in West Buckland, Devon, their daughter, Frances Augusta Palfreman (b.1868 in Clifton, Gloucestershire), together with a female general servant.
The 1881 census confirms that she was residing at 7 Stanley Gardens, Belsize Park, Middlesex (now Greater London), with her husband who was described as a timber merchant, their four children: Marian Beatrice Palfreman (1865-1895) - a scholar; Frances Augusta Palfreman - a scholar; Lionel Rupert Palfreman (1877-1939 - a scholar and Winifred Mary Palfreman (1879-1970).
On the night of the 1891 census she was shown as living at 13 Buckland Crescent, Belsize Park, London, with her husband, who was again listed as a timber merchant, two of their daughters: Frances Augusta Palfreman and Winifred Mary Palfreman, together with a cook and a housemaid.
She was listed as M. A. Palfreman, aged 62 years, on the 1901 census and still residing at 13 Buckland Crescent, Belsize Park, with her husband who continued to described as a timber merchant and their daughter, Winifred Mary Palfreman, together with a cook and a housemaid.
Her death, aged 73 years, was registered as Marion Palfreman in the Hampstead Registration District, London, in the 1st quarter of 1911 and the Deceased Online website shows was buried as Marian Palfreman on 12 January 1911 in the Camden district. Probate records show her as Marian Palfreman of 29 Buckland Crescent, Hampstead, Middlesex (now Greater London) and that she died on 8 January 1911. When probate was granted on 5 July 1911 to her widowed husband, who was described as a retired merchant, her effects totalled £463-18s-0d.
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