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For privacy reasons, Date of Birth and Date of Marriage for persons believed to still be living are not shown.

Baptism: --Not Shown--

Reference: I81

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Woodward, Annie (b. 19 MAR 1873, d. 9 JUL 1964)

Note: Article from Bletchley Gazette

Fifty years a school teacher, most of the time at Pottespury and Yardley Gobion. Mrs Annie Dodson of 12 Church End Potterspury celebrated her 90th Birthday last tuesday.

Talking and laughing with this cheerful little white haired lady as i did it is hard to realise that she has been cripple all her live. Yet she still ratains that amaing will-power that has overcome her physical disability and enabled her to lead a full and active life.

At fice, little annie woodward started school at Potterspury. Unable to walk, she was carried the half-mile from her home and back again by her friends Ada Scott and Emily Wise. Suffering from what was probably a curvature of the spone, she was made to lay on her back in the classroom and would probably have remained inactive all her life if it had not been for that will-power.

At seven Annie could walk to the girls school. Unable to get employment as the normal leaving age of 13, she stayed on until she was 15 and was then given a teaching post at the school in 1888 at Ł4 a year. Life was hard at home, too. Her father kept the Old Blue Boar public house and Annie had to help with the cooking from the age of nine, when her mother died.

When she was 21 she decided to ask for an increase in salary and got a dressing down from the Duke of Grafton, But she stood her ground, and got her rise to Ł12 a year.

Soon afterwards the school-mistress went to Spring Grove, between Brentford and Hounslow. She found herself at the new school without teachers and sent a telegram to Annie offering her a job at Ł50 a year.

Annie accepted and spent five years there, returning in 1902, having married Mr George Dodson the previous year. For the next 36 years she was associated with Yardley Gobion School, for 30 of them as a full-time teacher. At first she walked from Potterspury to Yardley Gobion each day. Then she travelled by pony and trap, and finally by motor-car.

Apart from school work, she took an active part in the social life of Potterspury. She has been treasurer of the Potterspury, Yardley Gobion, and Furtho Medical Benefit and Annuity Society for 43 years, and used to cater for the Hospital fetes.

Mr Dodson, who did good work among the unemployed during the '20s was a painter in Wolverton Works. He died in 1932. Mrs Dodson lives with her daughter, Mrs Mary Russell, at Potterspury. Her son Mr G.R.Dodson is head master at Abbey Schools, Daventry.

Mrs Dodson also has five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Extract from a Will of Elizabeth Faux

Elizabeth Faux left a gift of Ł50 pounds to Annie when she died in 1906.

Baptism: 19 MAR 1874 St Nicholas Church, Potterspury, England

Occupation: Place: School Teacher

City: Towcester

Death: 9 JUL 1964 Potterspury, England

Burial: 11 JUL 1964 The Graveyard, High Street, Potterspury, Northamptonshire, England

Reference: I82

Country: United Kingdom

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Shipman, George Owen (b. 7 NOV 1873, d. 12 JUL 1912)

Note: George Owen Shipman spent his last days in London's County Asylum, reportedly because he was an Alcoholic.

On his death certificate he was reported to be an Unbrella Maker, on George Edwards married certificate he is reported
to be a policeman.

Occupation: Place: Umbrella Frame Maker

Occupation: Place: Policeman

City: London

Death: 12 JUL 1912 London County Asylum

Reference: SHP0001

Cause: Dysentry, Congestion of Lungs (few days)

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Stacey, Elizabeth (b. ABT 1873, d. ?)

Note: Moved to Northampton from sudbury, suffolk her husband George Owen died in an asylum of alchol abuse.

Grand parents name was Parberry/parburry lived clare street northampton, St edmonds Road

Auntie Nell Mrs Smedley simmsion ave. half sister to elizabeth stacey

When then went walking if elizabeth stacey saw a house to rent that she like she would move in, not necessary bettering her self, so the children went round many homes and schools.

Occupation: Place: Blouse Finisher

Reference: I84

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Shipman, William Henry (b. ABT 1831, d. ?)

Note: William died before he could see George Owen marry Elizabeth Stacey

Address when Owen was born was
211 Batemans Street, Shoreditch, London

Occupation: Place: Umbrella Frame Maker

City: London

Reference: I85

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Shipman, Kenneth George (b. 13 DEC 1940, d. 16 DEC 1940)

Note: Kenneth was buried under a tree just inside the gate of the graveyard in roade. His parents could not afford or did not want a big funeral service so the vicar buried him under the tree.

GRO Reference Q4 1940 3b 259 Brixworth.