Mary Ann Lupton b about 1845 Yeadon

[kdviner70]

ancestry.com shows that Mary Ann was married to Benjamin Lupton in Yeadon 1866. Her maiden name was Burnell.
I am searching for any possible connection to one Jane Wood b. Oct 1840. Miss Wood (mother and father's names not known) eventually married Edward Ivinson (b Sep 1830 Danish West Indies - family from Cumberland). Mrs. Ivinson died in 1915 in Laramie, Wyoming. Her husband had made a fortune in the banking business. Mrs, Ivinson's will indicated that she desired that $5000 be given to Mary Ann (Burnell ) Lupton of Yeadon Yorkshire England. Mr. Ivinson's 1916 will (written after his wife's death) had a similar bequest. However, the bequest was left out of his final 1925 will. Interestingly, when the Ivinsons visited London in 1885, they wrote that they would visit Yorkshire for a week to see Mrs. Ivinson's uncle (not further identified).  In the end I am trying to establish where Jane Wood Ivinson was born and raised. I am a volunteer researcher of the Ivinson family for our local museum (housed in the Ivinson's former mansion). The family history gives conflicting information on where Jane was born (either "West Riding" or Bolton,Lancashire). If I can establish a familial relationship between Jane and Mary Ann it would help possibly solve this mystery. If you want to see the museum please go to http://www.laramiemuseum.org/ 
Thank you for any assistance!

Kim Viner
Commander U.S. Navy (retired)
Laramie, Wyoming, USA

[Milliepede]

What an interesting story 

Do you know when Jane married Edward and where ie was it in England?

[kdviner70]

Jane and Edward were married in Jersey City New Jersey USA in April 1854. He came to the U.S. (after his schooling in Brampton Cumberland) in about 1852. She came (separately) to the U.S. in late 1853.

[Milliepede]

Right thank you so she should be on census in England in 1841/1851 as a child. 

She was very young to get married in 1854 if she was born late 1840 
Did she come alone to the US? 

[kdviner70]

p.s. Edward was actually born in the Danish West Indies in Sept 1830. His father, Thomas Ivinson, had gone there  in the early 1820's to manage a sugar plantation. Edward was returned to England at age 7 for his formal education at Croft House Academy in Brampton. I believe he remained in England until he left for the U.S.
Little is know of Jane Wood Ivinson's early history or family. All that can be confirmed with documentation is that she married Edward as noted above.
They moved across the U.S. and eventually settled in Laramie, Wyoming where he made his fortune as a banker.
Of note, at the end of his life he gave all of his fortune away, mostly to benefit the citizens of Laramie with a new hospital, a home for elderly women, a girls school, a WWI memorial and cash to complete the construction of St Matthews Episcopal Cathedral.

[kdviner70]

Right thank you so she should be on census in England in 1841/1851 as a child. 

She was very young to get married in 1854 if she was born late 1840 
Did she come alone to the US? 

The family history (which is quite shaky) indicates she was born Jane Wood Oct 22 1840. Her father died when she was young (one source says his first name was John). Her mother remarried and moved to New York, leaving Jane behind to be raised by her grand mother (name not known). She supposedly was sent for by her mother in 1853 and sailed alone to New York.

I have searched the 1841 census, but (as you know) without the mother's first name, doubt about her father's first name and questions about where she was born, it is nearly impssible to determine if any of the Jane Woods (and there are dozens) born in Yorkshire and Lancashire might be the one who is in this story.

It is odd that no one in the family knows what Jane's mother's first name was. It is not recorded in the family bible and no other records list it.

One suspects that there might be a bit of mystery connected with that part of the story!

[Milliepede]

Ah that could be useful that she was brought up by her grandmother.  If we can find a Jane Wood Yorks/Lancs living with grandmother in 1851 could be a clue.

I agree bit of a needle in a haystack job but that's all part of the fun!

[kdviner70]

Ah that could be useful that she was brought up by her grandmother.  If we can find a Jane Wood Yorks/Lancs living with grandmother in 1851 could be a clue.

I agree bit of a needle in a haystack job but that's all part of the fun!

True that!
I have searched and searched by what I find seems inconclusive. I don't even know if it was the maternal or fraternal grandmother.

[Milliepede]

Looking at Bolton as a possible birthplace.

There is a Jane born Bolton living with grandmother Margaret Wood in Halifax Yorks.  She's 12 and the grandmother is 70. 

Don't suppose you have access to her marriage record which would name the father - or is that where fathers name John came from?