occupation

Dressmaker, also in service as a
stand-in when her sisters were ill
or on holiday

dates

Born: 19 Apr 1880

Married: 21 Feb 1915 to

                Joseph James WILSON

Died: 19 Mar 1980

residence

30 George Street, London

Wilson Place, St Clements, Oxford

102 Rose Hill, Oxford

submitted by

Ann RYDER (great-niece)

related faces

Alfred HIGGINS (father)

Elizabeth NOYES (mother)

Mary Ann TAGG (grandmother)

Frederick SAMMONS (grandfather)

Charles Alfred HIGGINS (brother)

Henry James HIGGINS (brother)

Florence May HIGGINS (sister)

Elizabeth Mary HIGGINS (sister)

Ann WALE (great-grandmother)

Henry SAMMONS (uncle)

Background information

Annie was a dressmaker and she lived in the houses of her customers while she made a wardrobe of clothes for them. Surprisingly, as she was blind in one eye; this happened when a young boy had used a blower toy from a cracker with a feather on the end. He blew it into her eye and there was a wire on the end that cut her.

In her early life she was in the Salvation Army and was a Sunday school teacher, but later converted to Catholicism at the request of a young boy she knew, who was dying.

In 1927, she and her husband worked in the Blue Boar Pub at Gloucester Green in Oxford. In 1940 she worked at the Canteen, Telephone House and also worked at the Co-op in the restaurant at Carfax, Oxford.