Mary Elizabeth Couch 1863 - 1935

Born St Breock, this just S of Wadebridge, N of St Columb, maybe in the St Colomb reg.district.

1863. Mary Elizabeth Couch was born to Emily Couch & William Bickman, painter, St Colomb Mar 1863 . Baptised 25/1/1865 St. Breock, residence Wadebridge, mother Emily Couch, single woman . Parents names from her 1886 m.c. ( father could be an invention!) - details of which see below in 1886, from Cornish OPC . http://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/search-database/more-info/?t=marriages&id=1241960

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Cannot find a likely William Bickman in 1861C or 1871C

1871C. Mary E Couch, 8, is living Railway Cottages, St Breock, St Columb Cornwall. Emily is unmarried and a dress maker . John Saunders is widowed and a carpenter

John Saunders Head - Male 76 1795 - Cornwall, England
Mary E Couch Visitor - Female 8 1863 - Wadebridge Cornwall, England
Emily Couch Boarder - Female 29 1842 - Wadebridge Cornwall, England

As Emily is unmarried, then she could be the Emily in 1851C, aged 9, with grandmother, Jenipher Couch, 1783, pauper

1873. Her mother married William Richard Hawkey St Columb Dec1873 - she then aged 10

1881C. Incorrectly named as Mary E C Hawkey, she is living with her mother & step father at Molesworth Street , St Breock, St Colomb, Cornwall

William R Hawkey Head Married Male 46 1835 House Painter & Decorator Padstow, Cornwall, England
Emily Hawkey Wife Married Female 39 1842 - St Breock, Cornwall, England
Mary E C Hawkey Daughter Single Female 18 1863 Dressmaker St Breock, Cornwall, England

1886.Mary Elizabeth Couch, 23, married John Heard , 26, fitter, on 15/6/1886 in St Breock . St Colomb Jun 1886. His address Christchurch, Blackfriarrs Road, hers St Breock . His father James Heard, tailor. The father of the bride was William Bickman, painter, her mother was Emily Couch, afterwards married to William Richard Hawkey, reputed father??. Witnesses Emily Hawkey & William Meagor- Cornish opc.

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1886-1889. John & Mary Elizabeth hears leave Cornwall for Plaistow/West Ham, outskirts of London

1889. . Elsie Florence Heard was born to John & Mary Elizabeth on 12/1/1889 West Ham Mar1889

1891. They move to Plumstead and he is likely employed at Woolwich Arsenal

1891C John Heard was living Crescent Road, Plumstead

John Heard Head Married Male 30 1861 Engine Fitter St Breock Cornwall, England
Mary E Heard Wife Married Female 28 1863 - St Breock Cornwall, England
Elise F Heard Daughter - Female 2 1889 - Essex, England
John F Heard Son - Male 0 1891 - Essex, England

1901C. John Heard was living 60 Genesta Road, Plumstead

John Heard Head Married Male 40 1861 Gauge Maker Fitter Wadebridge, Cornwall, England
Mary E Heard Wife Married Female 38 1863 - Wadebridge, Cornwall, England
Elsie F Heard Daughter - Female 12 1889 - Plaistow, Essex, England
John F L Heard Son - Male 10 1891 - Plaistow, Essex, England
Gladys E Heard Daughter - Female 4 1897 - Plumstead, Kent, England

 

1911C. John Heard was living 60 Genesta Road, Plumstead in 7 rooms. They had been married 24 years: 4 children, 1 dead

John Heard Head Married Male 50 1861 Gange Worker Fitter - Royal Arsenal Cornwall St Brcock
Mary Elizabeth Heard Wife Married Female 48 1863 - Cornwall St Brcock
Elsie Florence Heard Daughter Single Female 22 1889 Shorthand Typist London West Ham
Gladys Emily Heard Daughter - Female 14 1897 School London Woolwich

Her husband was a widower by 1939, so, unless they divorced, she should have died 1911-1939 -

1935.Mary E Heard, died- maybe, aged 72, Brighton Dec1935- only near death age, but why Brighton

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