Birth: 17 September 1880 Wellington Row, Wareham, Dorset, UK
Father: James Heath 1848-1920
Mother: Sarah Spiller 1853-1931
Christening: 26 December 1880 St. Mary, Wareham, Dorset, UK
Marriage: October-December 1914 Hendon, Middlesex, UK
Husband: Thomas John Saunders c1875-1932
Death: 23 June 1949 The Bungalow, Arne Road, Ridge, Arne, Dorset, UK
Mary P Saunders 1919-1919
Freda Saunders [Barton] 1921-1978
Birth of Mary Jane Heath in FreeBMD in October-December 1880 in Wareham (5A 278).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, Christening Index, 1530-1980 for Mary Jane Heath on 26 December 1880 in Wareham, Dorset parents James and Sarah Heath.
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Dorset Church of England Parish Registers, 1538-1999 for Mary Jane Heath baptised 26 December 1880 in Wareham.
Two entries in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Mary Jane Heath baptised 26 December 1889 at St. Mary's, Wareham, Dorset, parents James and Sarah Heath.
Entry in Ancestry Dorset, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906 for Mary Jane Heath baptised on 26 December 1880 in Wareham, parents James and Sarah Heath. "Page 20 Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of St. Mary Wareham in the County of Dorset in the year One thousand eight hundred and Eighty [...] 1880 June 26th No. 155 Mary Jane [parents] James [a] Labourer & Sarah Heath of Wellington Row, Wareham".
In the 1881 census as Mary Jane Heath aged 1 (sic - in the index, 6 months on the original), born in Wareham, Dorset, and living with her parents (James and Sarah), two brothers (John and William J), and sister (Sophie E) in Wellington Row, Wareham, Dorset.
Her sister was born on 28 January 1882, registered in January-March 1882 in Wareham and baptised on 28 March 1882 at St Mary, Wareham when they were living in Wellington Row.
Her sister was registered in January-March 1883 in Wareham and baptised on 24 June 1883 at St Mary, Wareham when they were living in Church Row,
Her brother was registered in April-June 1884 in Wareham and baptised 29 June 1884 at St Mary, Wareham when they were living in Wellington Row.
Her sister was registered in July-September 1885 in Wareham and baptised on 30 August 1885 at St Mary, Wareham when they were living in Wellington Row.
Her brother was born on 20 October 1887 and registered in October-December 1887 in Wareham.
Her brother was born on 8 April 1889, registered in April-June 1889 in Wareham and baptised on 26 May 1890 at St Mary, Wareham when they were living in Wellington Row.
Her sister was born on 8 December 1890 and registered in January-March 1891 in Wareham.
In the 1891 census as Mary Heath aged 10, born in Wareham and a patient at Ship Hospital, West Cliff Road, Holdenhurst, Bournemouth, Hampshire - there were eighteen other patients aged 4 to 10. Her parents and family were living in Church Street, Lady St Mary, Wareham..
Her sister was registered in July-September 1892 in Wareham.
Her sister was born 10 December 1893 and registered in January-March 1894 in Wareham.
Her sister was born 7 September 1895, registered in October-December 1895 in Wareham and died on 23 October 1896 in Wareham.
Her brother was born on 16 January 1897 in Wareham and registered in January-March 1897 in Wareham.
In the 1901 census as Mary Jane Heath aged 20, born in Wareham, Dorset, single and a servant living with James W Long (aged 37, born in Portsmouth, Hampshire and an inland revenue officer), his wife (Mary Ann aged 33 and born in Dullingham, Cambridgeshire), daughter (Mary Elizabeth aged 7 and born in Wandsworth, London) and father-in-law (George Cates aged 76, born in Wooddetton, Cambridgeshire and widowed) in North Street, Lady St Mary, Wareham, Dorset.
In the 1911 Census as Mary Jane Heath aged 30, born in Wareham, Dorset, single, a cook and visiting Frank Naylor (aged 55, born in London and a hotel valuer), his wife (Jessie aged 57, born in London, married for 35 years with three children, one having died), his daughter (Dorothy Violet aged 26, born in Forest Gate, Essex, single and no stated employment), and two servants (Daisy Heath aged 26 and a housemaid, and Emily Heath aged 28 and a cook, both born in Wareham, single, and I assume her younger sisters Emily Louise born 17 February 1883 and Daisy May born 12 July 1885) in fourteen rooms at Westbury, Hornsey Lane, Highgate N, Hornsey, London.
Marriage of Mary J Heath and Thomas J Saunders in FreeBMD in October-December 1914 in Hendon (3A 761).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Mary Jane Saunders address 97 Burghley Road, St John's Park, St Pancras, Camden in 1918, two other families were at the same address and Thomas John Saunders (husband?) is listed as an absent voter.
Birth and death of her daughter were registered in October-December 1919 in Pancras.
Her daughter was born on 22 Febuary 1921 and registered in January-March 1921 in Holborn.
In the 1921 census as Mary Jane Saunders born in Wareham, Dorset in 1881 and living with Thomas John Saunders (husband?) and Freda Saunders (daughter?) in St Pancras, London, Middlesex.
Eight entries in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Mary Jane Saunders addresses 97 Burghley Road, St John's Park, St Pancras, Camden from 1921 to 1930, other occupants Thomas John Saunders (husband?) and two other families, and 175 Camden Road, Batholomew, St Pancras, Camden in 1931, other occupant Thomas John Saunders (husband?) and two other families (owned by Charles John Massey Dawkins and Sylvia Mabel Dawkins of 2 Adelaide Road NW3).
Her husband was buried on 15 July 1932 in Camden.
Four entries in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Mary Jane Saunders address 175 Camden Road, Batholomew, St Pancras, Camden in 1931, two other families lived at the same address (owned by Charles John Massey Dawkins and Sylvia Mabel Dawkins of 2 Adelaide Road NW3).
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Mary J Saunders born 17 September 1880, widowed, and a foster mother living with five others at The Bungalow, Arne Road, Wareham and Purbeck, Dorset.
Death of Mary J Saunders in FreeBMD in April-June 1949 aged 68 in Poole (6A 537).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for Mary Jane Saunders died 28 (sic) June 1949 in Dorset, probate 8 (sic) September 1949 in Winchester, Chester. "Saunders Mary Jane of The Bungalow Arne-road Ridge Wareham Dorsetshire widow died 23 June 1949 Probate Winchester 3 September to Ronald Leslie Saunders warehouseman. Effects £664 7s. 4d."
There are twenty two entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Mary Jane Heath.
Ridge is half a mile due south east of of Wareham and is part of the parish of Arne whose centre is 3 miles east. Wareham became part of Poole on 1 April 1937.
Mary Jane Heath was the mother of Freda Saunders, wife of Alfred Andrew Barton, third cousin of Dennis Alfred Barton, my brother-in-law.
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