She married on 24 September 1810 Lieutenant Richard Thomas Hodges RN, is thought to have lived in Maidstone for a time, but to have moved elsewhere.
[3][4][5][6][7][8] In the early nineteenth century, Christiana Willes helped her brother John, who played for Kent, to practice by bowling to him.
[a][9][10][11] Developing her technique through experimentation, she naturally bowled with a higher arm due to her skirts,[12] and found roundarm to be far more successful for her than underarm.
[1] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography traces the story of Christiana's supposed contribution to cricket, noting that her son Edward Hodges wrote about his mother playing cricket with her brother John Willes, a Kent county player identified with the round-arm bowling style.
Hodges' account makes mention neither of crinoline nor of roundarm bowling, merely that Christiana, John and their dog could beat any eleven in England.