Person:Mary Higgins (57)

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Name Mary Ann Higgins
Gender Female
Birth[1] Aug 1868 Stockton, Yorkshire, England
Marriage 27 Jan 1890 South Shields, Durham, Englandto Hunter Moses Purvis
Residence[3] 1928 Arthurs Hill, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland299 Beaconsfield Street
Death[2] Aug 1929 Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England

She remarried David Blandford 14 August 1918 at Newcastle upon Tyne (1918 quarter 3 NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE Volume 10B Page 233)

Parents possibly Arthur Higgins (from marriage certificate) labourer born in Lanarkshire Baethwell about 1842 and Mary born about 1857 in South Shields, Durham. In 1911 they had two children born but only one still living, the other was Bridget B Higgins born in Jarrow 1877 They claim to have married in 1881. None of these dates make much sense.

References
  1. General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Birth Index. (London, United Kingdom: General Register Office, 1837-Present)
    Stockton 10a 96, Sep 1868.
  2. General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Death Index. (London, United Kingdom: General Register Office, 1837-Present)
    NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE Volume 10B Page 61, Sep 1929.
  3. The British Library. Electoral registers 1832-1932
    Archive reference: SPR.Mic.P.39/BL.N.11 Image number: 289, 1928.

    Blandford, Mary Ann
    Purvis, Thomas
    Purvis, Charles Vernon