Ann Piper 1830-?

Parents:     John Piper and Charlotte Whiting (1)
Born:           13th December 1830 in Haverhill (1)
Baptised:   9th January 1831 at St Mary's Parish Church, Haverhill (1)
Married:      Jabez Whiting, Batchelor, of Burton End, Private in the Royal Marines, Chatham division, son of John Whiting, labourer, on 1st July 1851 at St Mary's Parish Church, Haverhill. Witnessed by Edmund Whiting and Sophia Buttle.(2)     
Children:    ?
Died:            ?

Bio:              Ann Piper was born in Haverhill, and first appears on the 1841 census living with her mother Charlotte and 3 siblings in Burton End. Her father is not present.

The 1851 census finds Ann living with her grandparents Daniel and Elizabeth Whiting in Burton end. Several months later she marries Jabez Whiting, a private in the Royal Marines. He was not a close relative of Ann's mother. Jabez Whiting was discharged from the Marines in 1855 on the grounds of ill-health; he had disease of the kidney.(4)
The current thinking (see Jabez's page) is that after being discharged from the Marines, he assumed the name 'James Whiting', starting a new life and re-joining the Royal Navy. It is thought he also married again, perhaps bigamously, in 1856 to Mary Jane Johnson, and had children with her in Pembroke and Portsea.
What we do not know, is what happened to Ann after their marriage in 1851.

 Sources:      

(1) Ancestry.com; Place: Haverhill, Suffolk, England; Collection: BTs; Date Range: 1831 - 1832; Film Number: 989588.
(2) Suffolk Records Office, Bury St Edmunds, Parish Registers of St Mary's Church, Haverhill. Fiche 578/4/p24 of 37
(3) Marriage Register. 3rd Quarter 1851, Risbridge District, Volume 12 Page 555
(4) National Archives. Royal Marines, Chatham Division, Attestations and Discharges 1842-1912, ADM 157/1289/333