Mrs. Ann Harris

Northampton Mercury 09 April 1887

CASTLETHORPE. Long Life Indeed. Jane Harris, widow of Matthew Harris, died here Sunday night, after a short illness. The deceased, who was born on May 7th, 1780, was in her 107th year, and to recently had been the possession of all her faculties. She leaves family of three sons and two daughters, the oldest of whom is seventy-three years of age

Farmer Amos Memories of Ann Harris

Ann Harris die in her 107 year. Killed herself helping her Daughter Ann ring pair of Trousers out of her son John Black Smith which she wash that morning She made Buckinghamshire Lace Lovely and when 70 years old her and Nanny Nichols walk to Northampton and back 12 miles each way in Pattens. Her love a glass of Beerand Tom Amos see she never went short of jug of Beer The strongest, out of Fox Hunter Barrell


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