Lucy Ann Hodgson

Abt 1800 - 1855  (55 years)

• Name	Lucy Ann Hodgson
  Birth	Abt 1800	Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire
  Gender	Female
  Census	1851	2 Vigo St, London
  Lucy continued the family stationery business after her husband’s death.
  Death	Dec 1855	St James, Westminster, London
  Person ID	I1440	Ash Family Database
  Last Modified	10 Nov 2026

  
  

  Family	John Henry Kelly,   b. Abt 1798, Shoreditch, London d. Jul 1843, St James, Westminster, London (Age 45 years)
  Marriage	13 Jul 1820	St James, Westminster, London
  Children	1. Sarah Kelly,   b. 21 Aug 1827, St James, Westminster, London
  Family ID	F315	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Nov 2026

  
  

• Event Map

  Marriage - 13 Jul 1820 - St James, Westminster, London Census - 1851 - 2 Vigo St, London Death - Dec 1855 - St James, Westminster, London  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  A Lucy Ann Kelly with 2 sons and 5 younger daughters appears on the 1851 Census living at 2 Vigo Street in the parish of St James, Westminster. She is 37, widowed and working with her eldest son as a bookseller and stationer. Two of the daughters are called Sarah and Emma and their approximate dates of birth match those of Vernon Leigh Wood's mother and aunt respectively. Add to this the fact that Sarah and Emma were born in the same parish, and the evidence for this being the right family starts to appear persuasive although it is odd that Sarah shares a surname with her husband's married sister. Sarah Kelly would also go on to marry John Wood from Marylebone, the same district of London as that in which her eldest brother John was born. On the night of the 1851 Census the household also included Hannah Ballam (56), a housemaid from Lincolnshire and John Smith (29), a "gentleman" lodger from Yorkshire. Lucy Ann Kelly does not appear on the 1861 Census. Only 4 women named Lucy Ann Kelly died in England and Wales between 1838 and 1856. Of these, one died in the parish of St James, Westminster in December 1855 (All England and Wales, Civil Registration Index: 1837-1983).