My great great grandmother Mary Ann Mumford (Viccars) became a widow at the age of 37 in 1850, the year my great-grandmother was born. She had 6 children, according to the 1851 census ranging in age from 12 to one. In 1851 she was listed as both a farmer of 19 acres and a butcher, but by 1871 she was exclusively a butcher. She lived all of her life in Great Horwood Buckinghamshire. She died in 1890, just a few years before her youngest daughter Hannah emigrated to Canada with her husband, George Young and adult children, including my grandfather Richard Augustus Young.
Her estate was 443 pounds. I think Mary Ann lived an unusual life for her time.
