Mary Bales

c1817-1875

Mary Gardiner was born in Tetbury, Gloucestershire. (Possibly the daughter of Samuel and Martha Gardiner (nee Cove) who were married on the 7^th March 1814 in Tetbury)

Possibly Mary in the 1851 census: Mary Gardner (34), living in Church Street, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, with her brother William (29), a Cordwainer, her sister-in-law, Martha (31), her nephew Frederick William (1) and her mother Martha (66).

By 1861 Mary Gardener (44) was working as a Barmaid, lodging in Cheap Street, Newbury, Berkshire.

Mary Gardiner married Nathan Bales in 1864 (marriage registered in the September quarter, in Newbury).

(Nathan was a widower. He was baptised on the 6^th February 1814, in Diss, Norfolk, the son of John (a Gardener) and Elizabeth Bales (nee West) who were married in Diss on the 6^th March 1804. He married Eliza Morris in 1840 in Isleworth and they had 6 children. Nathan was widowed in 1858)

The 1871 census records Nathan (57) as a Gardener, living with Mary (54), in King’s Arms Yard, Newbury.

Nathan died aged 62, on the 25^th May 1875. He was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 29^th May.

Mary died aged 58, on the 29^th June 1875.  She was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 3^rd July.

Probate: BALES Mary   Effects: under £200      21^st July 1875     The Will of Mary Bales late of Newbury in the County of Berks Widow who died 29^th June 1875 at Newbury was proved at Oxford by James Bales of Maidenhead in the said County Mediaeval Metal Worker and Stephen Knight of Newbury Tinman and Brazier the Executors.

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