Brewer, Mrs Mary

Singer

Collection date: Jan 1907

Area: Somerset - Bridgwater Surrounds


Mrs Mary Brewer of East Huntspill (1828-1910): age 78, 2 songs (FT1204/5) on 19 Jan 1907: Mary Good was baptised on 30/11/1828 at Woolavington, a village just to south of East Huntspill. She was the daughter of John Good, labourer & his wife Fanny. On 9/4/1849 at Woolavington she married Andrew Brewer, labourer. Neither could sign their name. They moved to East Huntspill and raised four children. Andrew was a farm labourer at every census and he died in 1899. Mary was a widow aged 71 a monthly nurse, in the 1901 census (RG13/2286 f66 p10), living at 3 Catherine Street, East Huntspill. She died Jan qr 1910 aged 80 (5c 247).

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