Mary Quarrier

c1802-1856

According to the 1851 census Mary was born in Isleworth, Middlesex. She married Thomas Quarrier (no confirmed marriage found yet!)

Thomas and Mary had a daughter Hannah, baptised on the 9^th July 1834 at St Nicolas Church Newbury. Thomas was recorded as a Tanner on the baptism record.

The 1841 census records Mary (30) and her daughter Hannah (7) living in a Lodging House, Newbury, Berkshire (near the Bull and Dog Inn).

In 1851 Mary (46) (recorded as a widow) and her daughter Hannah (16) were lodging with a Sarah Williams (56) in Old Newtown Road, Newbury.

Mary died aged 54 on the 13^th October 1856 at the City, Newbury, (cause of death: Bronchitis) she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 17^th October.

Hannah has been recorded as Hannah Quirin in the 1841 census and Hannah Quander in the 1851 census, in Newbury, on ancestry. Both census records record them as Lodgers, living in a Lodging Houses, not the Workhouse

There is a burial for a Thomas Henry Quarrier, buried 13^th July 1858 in Newbury (aged 1). Birth registered in the in June quarter 1857, no mother’s maiden name recorded so this illegitimate child could have been Hannah Quarrier’s son.

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