Amy Johnson Crow, on her blog No Story Too Small, has challenged her fellow bloggers to post 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. This is week thirty-0ne.
My great-great-great grandmother, Mary Ann Pardoe, was born about 1823 in England. Her father, according to her later marriage certificate, was Thomas Pardoe, a brass founder.
On the 1841 census Mary (25) is shown with Thomas (45) and his second wife, Ann (40), along with Samuel (15) and Thomas (12). They are living in Marylebone, St. Pancras Parish.
On August 14, 1843, Mary Ann married James Coulman, in the parish of Paddington in the County of Middlesex, England. They were both living on Praed Street at the time.
By the 1851 census, Marrianna (24/29?) and James (28) are found in  Islington, Middlesex along with Samuel (5) and Emily (1). James is a stone mason.
In 1861 the census shows James (38) and Marian (38) living in Kensington, St Mary Abbott, Middlesex. Samuel passed away between censuses, in 1855. Emily (11), Edward (8), Charles (6), Henry (3), and James (1 month) are the other children.
I have yet to find the family in the 1871 census.
James died in the sinking of the SS Princess Alice in the River Thames on September 3, 1878. His last address is shown as 10 Lawn Terrace, Fulham and Marion (57) is shown on the 1881 census as a widow at that address. She is the head of the household. Emily Catherine (31) is a milliner. Charles (26) is a railway clerk. James (15) is a carpenter apprentice.
Marian passed away on April 8, 1888 from Bright’s disease and Dropsy Bronchitis. Her son Henry J. Coulman was the informant of her death and they both appeared to have been living at 67 Paxton Road in Chiswick.
