| AdminHistory | Millicent Francis was baptised Millicent Mary Marler in Shoreditch in 1795. She was the daughter of a watchmaker, and the middle child of nine. In 1821 she married Matthew Viner at Shoreditch with whom she had five children. By 1835 Matthew had died and she re-married Henry Brinkworth, a chairmaker and widower with four children, at Bethnal Green. In July 1838 Henry died of dropsy at Guy's Hospital, leaving Millicent with 9 children under 17 to care for. At this time she was living at 3 Little Nelson Street, Bethnal Green.
In January 1844 she married a third time to Robert Francis, a rope maker, at the church of St Dunstan, Stepney, another widower. In 1862 her address was 2 Ravenscroft Street, Bethnal Green. In 1871 she was a widow living at 4 Queen Street with two of her grand-daughters. She died in Bethnal Green Workhouse on 17 June 1879 of "old age"aged 83, and described as a "semp stress". |