Mary Lucas, died 1873

Thomas and Mary Lucas appear on the 1861 census living in the village of Simpson in Buckinghamshire. Born at Walton in Buckinghamshire in or about 1803, Thomas was a farmer with 48 acres, employing two men and one boy. Mary was born at Cranfield in Buckinghamshire and was two years older than her husband.

Thomas died at Simpson on 1 May 1870, aged 68. He left an estate valued at under £600. His executors were Thomas Lucas of Horton in Northamptonshire and Isaiah Lucas of Fenny Stratford in Buckinghamshire.

Mary died at Newport Pagnell in Buckinghamshire on 1 March 1873. She left an estate valued at under £200. Her sole executor was her brother, Joel Fisher, a cowkeeper of Shacklewell Green, Hackney.

Photographed by Alderman and Harrod of Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire.