Birth: October-December 1857 Battersea, Surrey, UK
Father: John Scammell (Scammel) 1826-1905
Mother: Harriet (Harriett) Bridger 1830-1881
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: October-December 1881 Wandsworth, Surrey, UK
Husband: John Lower 1850-1921
Death: October-December 1919 Newhaven, East Sussex, UK
Ethel Mary Lower 1882-1900
John William Lower 1884-1941
Frank Bridger Lower 1886-a1930
Niel (Neil) Eustace Lower 1888-1917
Harold Lower 1891-1913
Birth of Mary Ann Scammell in FreeBMD in October-December 1857 in Wandsworth (1d 390).
In the 1861 census as Mary A Scammell aged 3, born in Battersea, Surrey, and living with her married mother (Harriot), brother (Henry), and three lodgers (John Seymour aged 27, born in Norwood, Surrey and a labourer, George Pickett aged 25, born in Tackley, Oxfordshire and a labourer, and Sarah Garrett aged 29, born in Poole, Dorset and a dress maker, all single) at 9 York Street, Battersea, Surrey. Her father was lodging at 27 and 28 Castle Street, St Andrew Holborn, Middlesex where his status was single.
Her father married Esther Muspratt in Southwark in 1867.
In the 1871 census as Mary A Scammell aged 13, born in Battersea, Surrey, and living with her widowed mother (Harriet), two brothers (Henry and Joseph), and a boarder (John Seymour aged 37, born in Merrow, Surrey, single and a boiler maker) at 1 York Mews, Battersea, Surrey.
In the 1881 census as Mary Scammell aged 23, born in Battersea, Surrey, single, and a housemaid living with William Calder Marshall (aged 60, born in Scotland, and a Royal Academician Sculptor), his wife (Margt.Calder Marshall aged 63 and born in Scotland) , son (Charles J aged 21, single and an architect) and two other servants (Mary J Mason aged 28, born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire and a cook, and Annie White aged 22, born in Greenwich, Kent, and a domestic palour maid, both single) at 115 Ebury Street, Belgrave, St George Hanover Square, Middlesex.
Marriage of Mary Ann Scammell and John Lower in FreeBMD in October-December 1881 in Wandsworth (1d 994).
In the 1891 census as Mary Ann Lower aged 33, born in Battersea, Surrey, and living with her husband (John), three sons (Frank B, John W and Mel C), and daughter (Ethel M) in four rooms at 16 Railway Road, Newhaven, Sussex.
In the 1901 census as Mary A Lower aged 41, born in Battersea, Surrey, married but not with her husband, no stated employment and living with her four sons (John W, Frank B, Harold and Rich E) in four rooms at 16 Railway Road, Newhaven, Sussex. I cannot find an entry for her husband.
In the 1911 census as Mary Ann Lower aged 52, and living with John (husband?), and Harold, John William and Neil Eustace (sons?) in Newhaven, Sussex.
Death of Mary A Lower in FreeBMD in October-December 1919 aged 62 in Newhaven (2b 225).
David Gardner has an entry for Mary Ann Scammell born in 1857 in Battersea, and married in Wandsworth.
Mary Ann Scammell was the third cousin twice removed of Cyril Larby, my second cousin once removed.
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