St. Nicholas, Marston

Life History

1806	Born in Marston, Oxfordshire
12th Oct 1806	Baptised in Marston, Oxfordshire
26th Jan 1839	Married William CANNON in Marston, Oxfordshire Name: William Cannon Year of Registration: 1839 Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar District: Headington County: Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire Volume: 16 Page: 85
1840	Birth of daughter Mary Sims CANNON in Marston, Oxfordshire
1843	Birth of son William CANNON in Marston, Oxfordshire.2
1844	Birth of daughter Elizabeth Sims CANNON in Headington Registration District, Oxford, Oxfordshire
1846	Birth of daughter Ann Rippington CANNON in Marston, Oxfordshire
9th Jan 1873	Death of William CANNON in Headington Registration District, Oxford, Oxfordshire.3
1876	Died in Headington Registration District, Oxford, Oxfordshire

Notes

• Name: Mary Cannon
  Estimated birth year: abt 1807
  Year of Registration: 1876
  Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
  Age at Death: 69
  District: Headington
  County: Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire
  Volume: 3a
  Page: 463
• The Orchard, 20 Oxford Road, Old Marston:-
  The Orchard is Grade II listed (ref. 1485/152).
  It dates from the early eighteenth century, and is built of limestone rubble.
  The farmyard was where Orchard Cottage at 18 Oxford Road now stands.
  The house was inherited from John Sayer, a butler of Balliol College, by James Langford.
  It then passed to Ann Langford, who sold it to William Loder in 1813.
  On Loder's death in 1818 it passed to his widow, Mary, who sold it to the Marston farmer, Richard Rippington.
  His widow inherited it in 1841, and she left it to her daughter, Mrs Mary Cannon, wife of the farmer William Cannon.
  In 1876 Mary Cannon left it to her daughter, another Mary, who had married John Honour, and the couple were living in the house at the time of the 1881 census.
  John was then described as a 39-year-old builder who employed six men and one boy, and the couple had seven children:
  Mary (13), Helen (11), John (9), Alice (6), Charles (4), Margarete (2), and Henry (1).
  Also living with them was Mary's sister, Ann Cannon, an unmarried landowner of 34.
  The Orchard ceased to be a farm in the late nineteenth century.
  John Honour was still living at the Orchard in 1913, and a Mrs Honour lived here in 1935 and 1947.

Sources

• 1. Tithe Map of Marston ~ 1834
  • (primary evidence)
• 2. Ancestry Family Trees
  • Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com.  Original data:  Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.
  • (secondary evidence)
• 3. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar
  • Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010.
  • (secondary evidence)