Two grandparents I knew well and loved were Doc and Minnie Casey, very unalike, one serious and quiet and one always joking and visiting, one with dark hair and eyes and one sandy-haired and fair. They met when Doc traveled to another state for training and they seemed to have nothing in common. But it turns out that Doc's grandmother was Eliza Hancock (see earlier blog) and Minnie's great grandmother was Mary Ann Hancock. When Mary Ann was growing up in Derbyshire, England, Eliza lived on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Perhaps they were related a few generations back.
Mary Ann was the daughter of Joseph and Mary Jackson Hancock and she married Charles Marsden. They had thirteen children who grew up in Derbyshire. Aat some point, Mary Ann became a Mormon. Half of her children moved to Salt Lake City as adults and Mary Ann moved to Utah probably after Charles died in 1854 when he was only 50. There is a record of a Mary Marsden coming in 1866. Her daughter, our grandma Ellen Marsden, came to America about 1850.
Mary Ann apparently was living with her youngest daughter, Ann, when she died in Lehi, Utal in 1877.
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