Family Tree

of Trudy Mae COWLEY

Abodes     Aliases     Baptism     Birth     Burial     Children     Death     Education     Marriage      Siblings

Death

It is possible that Maria and her husband George lived till ages 87 and 96 - mention is made of Henrietta MAWER's grandparents (John Arnold MAWER's parents) and their ages in a newspaper article in The Examiner on 30 January 1933.

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Marriage

A letter from the Lincolnshire City Council states that on 3 July 1804 George MAWER of Wainfleet All Saints married Maria ABRAHAM of this parish by licence at Friskney (both signed their names).  George was listed as a tanner and a bachelor aged 29 years. Maria was listed as being of Friskney, a spinster aged 18 years.

Witnesses to the wedding were John WINGATE, Mary BURDEN, Mary ABRAHAM and Mary WINGATE.  s: John WINGATE of Friskney, grazier. (Ref 409&410). 

The letter goes on to say:
Looking through the 1813-37 county marriage index for the area around Friskney, Wainfleet and Boston, I could not find a marriage listed for either of the sons of George and Maria Mawer, and note that John Arnold Mawer calls his first child Maria (?after his mother), a later child George (?after his father) and the name of Wingate is also used for a younger son in 1839. I leave you to consider whether this is the same person … 

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