Anne (also known as Annie) was born in approximately 1844 at Glascoed, the daughter of John and Mary Morgan of Hill Farm. She was one of the youngest of at least seven children. The others were John Arthur, William, Thomas, Arthur, Mary Susanna and Jane Frances.

1864 was a year of change for Annie. She was aged approx 20 and in the February of that year, her father John died. She married not long after this, the groom being Alexander Wynter Blyth. Alexander was a medical student and the son of Alexander Blyth, M.D. Her husband was originally from Woolwich in Kent.

After their marriage they moved to several places, including Tenbury in Worcestershire, where their first two children were born (Annie, c. 1866 and Rosa, c. 1867). By the time of the birth of Stewart, a son, in approx 1870, they were living in Finsbury, Middlesex, although had moved back to Worcester by the time of their second son, Meredith’s birth in approx 1872. In 1878, Alexander took up a post as the Public Analyst for Totnes, in 1879 for Tiverton and later for the County of Devon. In 1882 he became the Medical Officer for Health and Public Analyst for the London borough of Marylebone. The family were living at 56, Great Russell Street, London by 1881.

Alexander Wynter Blyth was a very influential public analyst and medical officer, who made his mark with textbooks and drawings that are still used today. See Alexander’s bio for fuller details.

Their son, Meredith, assisted his father’s work and helped on one of his father’s most widely read works, “Poisons : their Effects and Detection”. I believe that Annie died before Alexander, since she is not mentioned in his obituary, and two of his children were.

RECORDS

1851 census.

1861 census.

Marriage entry

1881 census.