Annie Ellis
born Maddern
1895 to 1978aged 83
Dressmaker; after 1931, ran the Sennen Cove shop with her second husband
- Born
- 2 August 1895, St Just in Penwith
- Died
- 24 January 1978, Sennen
She married Nicholas John on his first leave in June 1916 and had nine days with him before he went back. She had thirty one months of him after the war and then seven years of nursing what the Levant man-engine had left of him. She was widowed at thirty one with a nine year old. She married a Sennen fisherman in 1931 and had forty seven years with him, which the family agrees she was owed. She let her son go to California in 1949 and never saw him again.
Accomplishments
- Kept the Levant relief fund widows and dependants list1919
From 1919, and went on keeping it after her own husband was no longer on it.
- Made every wedding dress in two families for thirty years
And never charged a relative for one of them.
