Biography:
Mary Garner
1868 –1913
Mary Garner
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Unmarked grave Mary Jane Garner (1868-1913)
Mary was born in Plymouth in 1868 to William and Jane Hosking. Her father was a baker.
She married twenty year old Robert Garner in 1891 in Plymouth. Robert had been born in Northchurch and had joined the 2nd Dorset Regiment. At the time of the marriage he was stationed in The Citadel which still dominates the Plymouth approaches.
Winfred Edith was born in 1898 and William Alfred Hubert in 1901, by which time Robert had been promoted to sergeant. The family’s address was 82, High Street, Stonehouse, Plymouth, an area very close to various military installations.
As an active serving soldier Robert moved about and the birthplaces of the next two children show that Mary was able to go with him. Rose Beatrice as born in 1904 in Portland and Arthur Ernest in 1906 in India.
Robert’s service records are in very poor condition, but it was clear that he suffered from recurrent bouts of dysentery in India in 1906 and was invalided back to England. He died at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Netley, the vast military hospital near Southampton, in early 1907.
Very shortly after Robert’s death his family moved to 5, Canal Side, Berkhamsted. In 1911 Mary Jane was working as a cook at school boarding house.
She died in the Berkhamsted Union infirmary in January 1913 aged 45, and was buried in a parish grave with Emily Pennington, with whom she had no connection.
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Unmarked grave Mary Jane Garner (1868-1913)
Mary was born in Plymouth in 1868 to William and Jane Hosking. Her father was a baker.
She married twenty year old Robert Garner in 1891 in Plymouth. Robert had been born in Northchurch and had joined the 2nd Dorset Regiment. At the time of the marriage he was stationed in The Citadel which still dominates the Plymouth approaches.
Winfred Edith was born in 1898 and William Alfred Hubert in 1901, by which time Robert had been promoted to sergeant. The family’s address was 82, High Street, Stonehouse, Plymouth, an area very close to various military installations.
As an active serving soldier Robert moved about and the birthplaces of the next two children show that Mary was able to go with him. Rose Beatrice as born in 1904 in Portland and Arthur Ernest in 1906 in India.
Robert’s service records are in very poor condition, but it was clear that he suffered from recurrent bouts of dysentery in India in 1906 and was invalided back to England. He died at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Netley, the vast military hospital near Southampton, in early 1907.
Very shortly after Robert’s death his family moved to 5, Canal Side, Berkhamsted. In 1911 Mary Jane was working as a cook at school boarding house.
She died in the Berkhamsted Union infirmary in January 1913 aged 45, and was buried in a parish grave with Emily Pennington, with whom she had no connection.
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