Ex-Pats

I am delighted, at last to introduce a new entry onto the FLHS website concerning the stories of those Finedonians, who for various reasons decided to leave home and emigrate to foreign lands. FLHS member Carolyn Smith has collated these stories and we hope you enjoy reading them. We begin with the story of Henry Arnsby. More will follow in due course.

Graham Sherwood.

Ernest Greenhalf

Ernest Greenhalf was born in Finedon in 1894 the son of Henry Adolphus and Maria Greenhalf. He was one of eleven children. Ernest’s parents came from Gloucestershire, their oldest children were also born there but the family moved to Northamptonshire in 1889, living for a short time in Raunds before moving to Finedon by 1894. Ernest’s father Henry worked as a leather dresser and when the family first moved to Finedon they lived in the new houses in Obelisk Rd but by 1911 had moved to Alexandra Terrace, located off Regent St. 

Ernest would have been educated in Finedon, firstly at the Infant School then situated in Church Street, and from age of seven, at the Junior Boys School, close to the parish church. He would have left school at around twelve years of age. By 1911 he had found employment as a grocer’s groom. 

At twenty-years old Ernest Greenhalf departed from Tilbury on the SS Indrapura on the 17th April 1914 travelling to Melbourne, Australia. His occupation was given as “farm student” and he was travelling in a group of thirteen young boys/men who are recorded with the same occupation. Their ages ranged from sixteen to twenty years, and they are most likely to have been part of a migration scheme to increase workers in Australian agriculture.

Ernest married Elsie Hannah May Drew of Male St, Brighton, Australia on 30th March 1918 at the Presbyterian Church, North Street, Esternwick, Victoria. Following the marriage Ernest moved into his widowed mother in law’s home at 91 Male St, Brighton.

Although Ernest travelled to Australia apparently with the intention of working in agriculture at some point he must have changed direction as on the 7th November 1933 recorded in the Melbourne newspaper ‘The Age’, there appears an advertisement advising readers that the partnership of Fauvel & Greenhalf, wood, coal, coke and general produce merchants was being dissolved by mutual consent. The debts and liabilities were the responsibility of Ernest as the partnership had operated out of 98 Male St, Brighton. Frederick Fauvel was the husband of Ernest’s sister in law. The spit was amicable and probably due to Frederick wanting to set up in business with his sons, as F H Fauvel and sons were trading as fuel merchants at 120 Bay St, Brighton by June 1934.

Ernest and Hannah only had one child, Ernest Sydney born at 91 Male St Brighton on 8th September 1919. In September 1940 the proud parents held a 21st birthday party for 150 guests at the Tudor Court, Brighton. They were still living at the same address when they celebrated their own 25th wedding anniversary in 1943. Ernest must have been a successful business man as he was able to afford to send his only child to the fee-paying Scotch College, Hawthorne, Melbourne.

Ernest’s business was still trading in 1948, when the winter had been so severe that in July of that year he was reported as saying that “the position, as regards to supplies of fuel, had never been so bad. He did not know how he stood from day to day, and his yard was nearly empty.” The severity of that winter was added to by lack of transport, the 40-hour week, a tenfold increase in consumption due to gas and power rationing. Australia was suffering from very similar conditions to those experienced in the UK in the winter of 1946/47.

Ernest’s wife died on 21 June 1965, followed by Ernest in 1968, they had spent all their married life at 91 Male St, Brighton.

Edmund Vincent Wallis (family)

Edmund Vincent Wallis, the eldest son of Owen and Ann Wallis, was born in Finedon on the 14th of March 1813 and was baptised at St Mary’s on 7 April that year. Owen was a member of an old Finedon family and had built the Gate Inn, in what is now the High Street. He had also planted the iconic cedar tree that dominated that street well into living memory, shown on many old photographs.

Following Owen’s early death on 1st of June 1834, his trustees, whom had overall control of his estate sold the Gate Inn. His widow and daughters moved to the Three Tunns in the Market Square at Wellingborough.

Edmund Wallis’ mother Ann was a member of the Vincent family and distantly related to the Dolbens of Finedon. Edmund met Mary Ann Lamb, said to be the best butter maker in Milton Ernest, while on the premises of George White a prosperous tradesman in Silver St, Wellingborough. Although Edmund was a member of the Church of England and Mary Ann a Baptist, the couple fell in love and were married at Milton Ernest, on the 28th of April 1838.

Following their marriage Mary Ann continued to attend the Baptist Meeting at Burton Latimer and in line with her religious beliefs, their oldest five children were never baptized. As a result of this when Elizabeth, born in 1842 and Edmund, born in 1845, both died in infancy, the Vicar, Mr. G W Paul, refused to read the burial service over their graves. As a consequence, Edmund eventually persuaded his wife to allow the four younger children to be baptised at St Mary’s. Tragically, when the second-born Elizabeth died as an infant in 1852 the burial service was read for her; the family however continued to attend the Baptist Meetings every Sunday afternoon.

The religious conflict within the family continued following the birth of Edmund’s and Mary Ann’s seventh child who was born on St Valentine’s Day 1849. It was his father’s wish to name him Valentine, however once this information reached his mother-in-law, Mrs. James Lamb at Milton Ernest, she immediately travelled to Finedon and told Edmund that she “would not have the child marked for life in that way”. Hence, the child was duly named Edmund Lamb Wallis, a choice resented by Edmund junior, who claimed in later life, “there was little of the lamb, and far more of St Valentine in my composition”.

Edmund Wallis senior was trained as a plumber and ran his business from the High Street in Finedon, close to the old Mulso Arms public house. For some unknown reason, in 1854, Edmund decided to move his wife and children to Hemel Hempstead, where his sister-in-law, Maria Laker, kept the King’s Arms Hotel. Edmund junior was later unable to explain why his father made this decision, and in later life considered this was a mistake. There appeared to be no problems with his business in Finedon, which he sold to a Mr. Downing. Edmund was held in such high regard that on 11th of December 1854 his friends gave him a dinner at the Bell Inn, which was attended by nearly fifty tradesmen and farmers, who presented him with an inscribed silver snuffbox.

At the time of their move to Hemel Hempstead the couple had six surviving children, ranging from Maria aged 15 years down to Owen aged 4 years. Edmund junior said that the move was not straightforward and the children were dispersed until their new home was ready. Owen went to their grandmother at the Three Tunns at Wellingborough, whilst James went to The Bell Inn and Edmund junior stayed in Finedon with his uncle Owen, an ironmonger on the High St. 

Sadly, during the family’s four years at Hemel life was marred by ill health and failure. Sixteen years old Ann died in 1858, their mother Mary Ann died in March 1859. Six weeks later, on Easter Monday, their father died, leaving the five remaining children orphaned. This was the point at which the futures of these orphans began to diverge widely. 

Owen, now 8-years old, went with 10-years old Edmund, to their grandmother at Wellingborough. Uncle Owen Wallis, at Finedon, agreed to clothe and teach little Owen the trade of ironmonger as soon as he became old enough, a trade in which Owen junior eventually flourished setting up in business on his own account in Hertfordshire. 

Edmund junior was set to train as a lawyer in Wellingborough and his early life is related in an article in the 1989-90 edition of “Northamptonshire Past and Present”, the journal of the Northamptonshire Record Society. After gaining experience in his chosen profession around the country he finally settled in Hereford. George, aged 15 years, was apprenticed to one James Elliott, a plumber in Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire and was later found running his own successful decorating business in London.

Maria, aged 19 years, went to work as a governess to a Mrs. Hensman at Huntercombe Manor Farm, Henley-on-Thames. She married Robert Stephen Howard at Bedford, in 1862, the couple spending their wedding night at her grandmother’s house in Wellingborough, before leaving for Queensland, Australia the very next day, sailing on the “Queen of the Colonies” for Brisbane. 

The couple lived at Spring Hill, Brisbane until about 1866, Robert had his own premises there working as a butcher. Later they moved to the Sydney area of New South Wales, before moving to Parkes NSW in 1872, to their first home in Curralong. 

Robert Howard and James Wallis were granted permission in May 1874 to purchase improved lands in the town of Parkes, where they set up in business as Wallis and Howard, opening a large store retailing groceries and drapery goods for the people of Parkes. By September 1874, Robert was appointed as a member of the Public Schools Board at Parkes. A year later his partnership with James was dissolved and Robert set up again, with the assistance of his wife Maria. As well as his store Robert also bought shares in at least one local company as in 1879 he is recorded as holding two shares in the Parkes Quartz Crushing Company Ltd.

The Howard/Wallis family being amongst the first in the area of Parkes, saw Maria become a dedicated member of the fledgling Methodist Church there. She was also much in demand in those early years for her skills in the sick room, helping the doctors and nurses in the district. She and Robert were also leading lights in the social and civic life of Parkes, him playing his part as a Justice of the Peace, and member of the Land Board and Licensing Court.

Maria would never see her Wallis siblings again, although she corresponded regularly with them for the rest of her life. Early in the 1860s, she encouraged both James and Edmund to follow her. Edmund junior said that had Maria’s letter arrived three weeks earlier in 1865 he would have followed her advice and emigrated, as he was in conflict with his grandmother and aunts. However, he had just moved in with the Lewin family and was settled in his new lodgings and by then in a much happier frame of mind. 

Maria was widowed on the 26th September 1899, when Robert died of cancer and she herself died at her home in Parkes on 5thJune 1917. Maria was survived by three sons and one daughter, one of whom, Owen J Howard became mayor of Parkes.

Back in England, James, apprenticed to William Parrot, a grocer of Hemel Hempstead, took his sister Maria’s advice, and around 1863 emigrated to Australia and joined his sister and brother-in-law, first in Spring Hill and then in Sydney. As previously mentioned James went into business with his brother-in-law Robert Howard in 1872, when they all moved to Parkes but after a couple of years they dissolved the partnership and James moved in 1877 to Yass, NSW to take up employment as manager of the Yass stores. 

He built up a good reputation in the town and surrounding district, remaining in this occupation for four years, during which time he married Letticia Pembroke on 25th January 1878, and had two children born in the town. In July 1881, James opened a general grocery and ironmongery emporium in Cooma Street, Yass, that promised to be successful, but unfortunately in November of the same year he fell ill with consumption and was confined to bed until his death on the 15th March 1882, aged only 35 years. James was greatly respected by his fellow townsfolk, a member of the Oddfellows Society and also superintendent of the Sunday School of the local Wesleyan Church.

HENRY ARNSBY

Henry was born on 2nd of August 1904 at Woodford, Northants, the son of Carl Norbert Steiner and Edith Arnsby, who had married earlier the previous year. In 1911, Henry, his parents and younger sister Annie were living in Woodford where Carl worked as an iron ore miner. Unfortunately, with war clouds looming, life was due to change drastically for this small family.

Sometime between 1911 and 1914, the family had moved to 15 Mulso Rd Finedon. As a German national, Carl was classed as an alien at the outbreak of war and despite the fact that he had a young family to support, he was sent to the aliens’ detention camp at Knickaloe Moar, Patrick on the Isle of Man. This is most likely to have been the last time that Henry and his sister saw their father alive, as he died on 9th February 1916 and was buried in the churchyard of Holy Trinity church, Patrick, I.O.M on 12th February. Subsequently, his remains were exhumed in 1962 and re-buried in the Cannock Chase German Military cemetery.

As anti-German sentiment was rife during the war, this may have influenced Edith’s next actions. Although British by birth Edith had acquired German citizenship through marriage and therefore applied for naturalization and was granted British citizenship on 27th June 1916. Although still recorded as Edith Steiner on the naturalization document she and the children, most likely adopted the surname Arnsby (Edith’s maiden name) at this time.

Earlier in 1906, Edith’s brother James had emigrated to New York, later moving to Texas, followed in 1907 by Edith’s sister Annie who also emigrated to New York. On the 2nd September 1907, at Rochester, New York, Annie married Arthur Frederick Hopper. 

Following the war, in December 1919, Annie and Arthur came to England, presumably to visit Annie’s family, returning to New York, via Southampton on board the “Adriatiia” on 7 April 1920. During their visit they visited Finedon and met with 16-years old Henry, no doubt telling him about their life in the United States.

It is impossible to know exactly what conversations took place between Henry and his uncle and aunt during this visit. Henry, being only sixteen years of age, had already suffered the loss of his father, initially through internment and then his death. How had he been treated in Finedon and at school where everyone knew of his German ancestry?

Perhaps his aunt and uncle thought he would be better-off living in a more multicultural environment abroad. Decisions were obviously made and Henry left Liverpool on the 25th June 1920, arriving in New York on the 18th July 1920, declaring on his travel documents that he was to join his uncle A F Hopper in America. Little did he realise that when he left his mother in England, this would be the last time he would see her.

The Northampton Mercury of 28th October 1921 carried the following headline 

‘Cyclist killed in collision with motorbus-Finedon fatality’. 

The report relates that Edith’s sister, Beatrice Nicholls, gave evidence of identification at the inquest relating that Edith was a widow and worked as a collector for a Wellingborough draper. She had left home on the previous Monday morning to go to Irthlingborough but within a short while was brought home dead. A passenger on the United Counties ‘bus said the bus had left the bus stop and was proceeding slowly down Obelisk Road in Finedon when he saw a male cyclist come down Mulso Rd and pass in front of the bus. He then saw a female cyclist arriving at a fast pace, on the wrong side of the road in Mulso Rd, who collided with the bus around the front wheel. When he dismounted from the bus he saw the cyclist on the road and the rear wheel of the ‘bus had passed over her. A verdict of “Accidental Death” was recorded. 

Henry, in America, and his 14-years old sister Annie were now orphans. Initially, Annie left Finedon and moved in with relatives in nearby Titchmarsh but was soon on her way to the USA, leaving Southampton on the 24th February 1922, eventually to settle in Texas with her Uncle James’s family. Henry having settled in with his aunt and uncle, moved with them from New York to Ohio in 1922. 

Both Henry and Annie married in their adopted country and remained there for the rest of their lives, Henry dying in 1956 and Annie in 1996.

LIZZIE AUSTIN (and family)

Lizzie Tunn was born at Victoria Cottages, Wellingborough Rd, Finedon on 1st of November 1889, the eldest child of boot maker Alfred and wife Eliza. She grew up in Finedon with her two brothers and two sisters and as the family expanded they moved to live in Obelisk Rd. Lizzie would have attended the infant and junior girls’ schools in Church St, Finedon and after leaving school, at around 12 years of age, she began working as a machinist in one of the shoe factories in the town.

On 21st October 1916, Lizzie married a young Irthlingborough shoe operative, named Owen Vincent Austin. Owen served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as an ordinary seaman from 17th July 1916 to 6th November 1916 at HMS Victory VI. This was a shore barracks, which was actually situated at the Crystal Palace in London. Then, from 7th November 1916 to 30th November 1916 he was at HMS Pembroke, also a shore barracks at Chatham. He was then transferred from the training establishments to the Royal Navy Reserve as a deck hand in the trawler section. 

Owen was still in the Navy during 1918/19 and at that time was serving on “H.M.S Hermione”, as a deck hand. This ship was an Astraea class protected cruiser and from December 1916 to December 1919 was the H.Q. ship for motor launches and coastal motor boats. Owen was awarded the British War Medal. Anecdotal evidence proclaims that he served on a minesweeper in the English Channel and his ship was sunk, leaving him in the water for some hours before being rescued. 

Owen and Lizzie had two children. Gladys was born on 25th of October 1922 and Donald born on the 23rd of November 1926 at the Gladstone Club, Finedon, where Owen and Lizzie were stewards. When they left the Gladstone in 1930, they became landlord and lady at the Gate Inn in High Street Finedon, taking over from the previous incumbent Alfred Knight. This continued until Owen’s death in the early summer of 1941, after which Lizzie applied to transfer the license into her name. This application was granted, and Lizzie was still licensee on the 14th April 1949 when a further full license for the Gate to open seven days a week was granted.

During this time Gladys and Donald were growing up and attending, respectively, the infant, junior and finally the senior schools in Finedon. They must have become aware that war was approaching as in the later years of the 1930s both of them left school to start work, most likely in one of the local shoe factories, although they could have also found employment with their parents at The Gate. However, at this point, it is unlikely that they could have realized just how much of an impact the aftermath of the coming war would have on both of their lives.

During the war Gladys probably continued in her normal work, with Donald taking up working in the shoe trade as he was only 13 years old at the outbreak of war. He most likely missed being conscripted during the war as it ended when he was only just 18 years old but would however have had have undertaken two years national service in one of the services during the second half of the 1940s.

During, and after the 2nd World War, US servicemen were stationed at airfields in the vicinity of Finedon. At some point Gladys met a young American serviceman named Steven John Hydock and they eventually became engaged to be married. 

Gladys boarded the “Queen Mary”, at Southampton, on 13th March 1948 and travelled to New York, arriving on 18th March 1948. She stated on her immigration documents that she intended to live in the US permanently and was going to live with her fiancé Steven John Hydock, of 962 Meredith Ave, Elizabeth, New Jersey. They were married shortly afterwards in New York City, on 8th May 1948. 

It seems that Gladys, with her 2-years old son Philip, returned to Finedon at least once to visit Lizzie and Donald at The Gate Inn, as in 1951, as she is documented as travelling, once again on the “Queen Mary”, leaving Southampton on 29th September 1951, arriving back at New York on 4th October 1951. At that time Gladys was living at 315 Pearl St, Elizabeth. 

Whether or not Gladys returned for further visits after 1951 is not known, but she may well have influenced Donald is his future life choices. Sometime between 1951 and 1957 Lizzie left the Gate Inn, and Thomas Childs took over. Donald married Evelyn Knight on 17th March 1955 at the Wellingborough Registry Office. The young couple, Evelyn’s daughter Kitty and possibly Lizzie herself then lived at 2 Milner Rd, Finedon. Donald supported his new family by working in one of the shoe factories in Finedon.

On the 14th September 1957 travelling on the “New York” Donald, Evelyn, Kitty and Lizzie left Southampton for New York City, along with 304 other passengers.

The family might have initially lived in New Jersey, most likely close to Gladys and Steven at Elizabeth as Donald and Evelyn had a son Peter, born in 1959 in New Jersey. By 1980, when Peter married they had moved to Virginia Beach.

Lizzie died on 15th May 1982 at Virginia Beach, Virginia. Evelyn died on 2nd April 1998 at Norfolk City, Virginia, followed very quickly by Donald on 12 March 1999 also at Virginia Beach. Gladys had three sons all born in New Jersey and was living in Clark, Union, New Jersey on 15th November 2007 she died during the last decade. Kitty married and had three sons.

SUSANNAH TOMPKINS AND SAMUEL CRADDOCK (family)

Susannah Tompkins married Samuel Craddock on the 20th January 1817, at Finedon St Mary’s parish church. Whilst the couple were both staunch Wesleyans they had no choice about the location of their marriage. In fact, Susannah was the daughter of John and Patty Tompkins, who were leading figures of the Wesleyan faith in Finedon. Indeed, the first Wesleyan chapel in Finedon was only built in 1822, on a piece of the Tompkins family’s garden in South West St (Regent St), a building which would eventually become The Regent Cinema.

Susannah and Samuel had eight children who survived to adulthood; three of these are known to have emigrated to live abroad. On the 1841 census, the Craddock family were living very close to Joseph Mitchell’s family and also attended the same place of worship. The Mitchell extended family emigrated to the USA during the 1840s and their experiences may have influenced the ensuing decisions made by the Craddock family.

Susannah and Samuel’s eldest son, John Arthur Craddock, born at Finedon on 19th May 1820, was the first to venture overseas, having already left Finedon by 1841, and was living at Wellington Place Northampton. John married Elizabeth Attfield on 24th February 1846 at St James, Westminster and at that time was a baker working in Coventry Street, Westminster. 

This arm of the Craddock family appears to have been living in London, when their son William Frederick Craddock was born in Islington in 1855 and their daughter Emma in 1857, before they all left for Australia in 1857. The parents also travelled with three previously born Craddock children, Elizabeth (8 yrs), John (7yrs) and George (6yrs).

The family emigrated on the “Countess of Elgin”, leaving London on 1st October 1857, for a journey of 140 days arriving at Melbourne in February 1858. They occupied a 3rd class cabin along for the journey with a further 104 adults and 41 infants and children also aboard.

John Craddock and family settled in Ballarat, in the Central Highlands of Victoria, John immediately taking up his trade of baker and storekeeper. Sadly, they suffered the death of their baby daughter Emma shortly after their arrival. Three further sons were born in Ballarat, John Arthur in 1858, Alfred in 1860 and Arthur in 1861, who also tragically died aged only 9 months. 

With the discovery of gold in the Ballarat area in 1851/2, the settlement became the centre of a gold rush. Just at the time that John and the family arrived the population of the town was reaching its peak at 60,000, the majority of whom were male gold diggers. John’s occupation of baker and storekeeper proved to have been an ideal occupation to get himself established in this new community. Later, in 1859 the permanent settlers were said to be around 23,000. Many of these settlers had established their wealth through gold prospecting and the district prospered through the development of deep gold mining. Following the arrival of the railway in 1862 Ballarat also became a major rail town.

John Craddock seems to have quickly become involved in the social and political life of Ballarat. He was a member of the Masters Bakers of Ballarat from around 1860 and is recorded as occupying the chair at a meeting to hear proposals made by the journeyman bakers to change their working hours to 4 a.m. to 7.30 a.m. At other meetings John was vocal in discussing various other issues concerning the bakery trade.

John’s active interest in politics led to some of the electorate calling for John to chair the meeting of the Legislative Assembly in 1868 which he declined. In 1871, John was successful in proposing a Mr. Rodier to be the East Ballarat representative and his proposal was accepted.

John Craddock was also a member of The Ballarat Orphan Asylum’s management committee, which was established in 1864, speaking on various issues and remaining on the committee until 1868.

John Craddock left his premises in Victoria Street on the morning of Tuesday 28th March 1871 in a cart accompanied by his youngest son. They were delivering some provisions to men who were cutting down a number of large trees near the North Melbourne Road. 

At about half past three John was standing on his cart making entries into his book when just at that moment one of the trees, whose roots had been loosened, fell just missing the boy who was sitting in the cart. The horse was knocked down and John was hit on the head and badly injured. Once the tree was removed John was found to be dead. John was survived by one daughter and four sons. 

John’s eldest sons, John and George Craddock were either too young or unwilling to continue John senior’s business and all the groceries, ironmongery, horses, bakers carts, buggy, harnesses etc, were sold by auction in June 1871, the newly built premises in Victoria St, were advertised for sale by the mortgagees in October 1871.

Susannah and Samuel Craddock’s youngest son, Ebenezer was born on 2nd June 1832 and baptized at the old chapel in South West St (Regent St) in July 1832. In 1841, Ebenezer appeared to be living with his parents and siblings in Finedon, although by the 2nd May 1852 he had arrived at New Haven Connecticut, USA, where he was living with his wife Charlotte and working there as a farmer. 

By the 6th March 1877 he had moved to New Hampshire and had been granted American citizenship. In 1880 he had moved to the city of Concord and is a collection agent, and appears to be a widower, lodging on Green Street. 

On the 30th June 1881 Ebenezer Craddock married Sophia B Wood at Concord, who, according to the New Hampshire Patriot and Star Gazette of 25th November 1886, was a well-known medium, clairvoyant and proprietor of medicines for various disorders in New Hampshire. 

This article also stated that Sophia and Ebenezer had purchased Birch Island on Sunapee Lake and fitted it out as a spiritualist resort. At the time of their marriage (1881) Ebenezer had become a real estate investor but by 1896 he has acquired an eclectic physician’s degree, and was also said to dabble in astrology. Ebenezer and Sophia separated around 1900 and they divorced in 1902. Polk’s Medical Register and Directory of 1907. states that Ebenezer Craddock was “legally authorized under “the years of practice” section of the Act”.

On the census of 1900 Ebenezer is still living on Marshall Street, Concord and is listed as a widower, and a physician. He re-married in 1908 to a Catherine Boregard and in 1910 they are shown living on Munroe St, Concord, and he is working in general practice. Passenger lists show that he travelled to the UK, and quite possibly to Finedon on a number of occasions. Ebenezer died at Concord on the 20th December 1915, he had no known children.

Mary Ann Craddock, Susannah and Samuel’s youngest daughter, was born on the 14th July 1840 and is with her parents in Finedon on the 1841 and 1851 censuses. However, by 1861 she is working in Warrington Lancashire as a servant, but still has strong Finedon connections as her employers are Joseph and Mary Harlock from the well-known Finedon family. On the 5th April 1869, Mary Ann married Charles Johnson at St Sepulchre’s church Northampton. 

The couple moved to Byfield and had five children there, four of whom survived to adulthood. In 1889 Mary Ann, Charles and all four children moved to Concord, New Hampshire, where they spent the rest of their lives, the whole family living on Pleasant Street in 1900. By 1910, two children have left home and they are living on Washington Street and a little later in 1920 Charles had died and Mary Ann was living with their eldest daughter Frances on Rumford Street. Mary Anne herself died on the 3rd November 1930 and is buried in the same cemetery as her brother, the couple being survived by their four children.