Birth: 5 February 1847 Bloomsbury Street, Aston, Warwickshire, UK
Father: John Lester 1821-1910
Mother: Harriet Ann Glover 1820-1903
Christening: Belmont Row Wesleyan Chapel, Birmingham, Warwickshire, UK
Marriage: October-December 1869 Lewisham, Kent, UK
Husband: James Luff 1845-1915
Death: October-December 1928 Edmonton, Middlesex, UK
Henry George Luff 1870-1939
James John Luff 1872-1930
Maud Mary Luff 1874-1937
Thomas Arthur Luff 1876-1952
Harriet (Harriett) Annie Luff [Snelling] 1878-1959
Emily Kate Luff 1880-1882
Mary Louisa Luff [Endersby] 1881-1936
Birth of Mary Lester in FreeBMD in January-March 1847 in Aston (16 210).
Her brother was born in Birmingham in 1849.
In the 1851 census as Mary Lester aged 4, born in Birmingm, Warwickshire, and living with her parents (John and Harriett), and two brothers (Edward and John) in Reynolds Street, Harborne, Staffordshire.
Her brother was born in Smethwick in 1851, another brother in Oldbury in 1853, and brother and sister in Sydenham in 1856 and 1859.
In the 1861 census as Mary Lester aged 14, born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, and living with her parents (John and Harriet), five brothers (Edward, George, John, Thomas, and William H), sister (Harriet), a boarder (Tom A Winter aged 7 months and born in Sydenham, Kent), and a visitor (Esther Stanley aged, born in Alcester, Warwickshire and a cook in a gentlemans home) at 8 Hanover Street, Sydenham, Lewisham, Kent.
Marriage of Mary Lester and James Luff in FreeBMDFreeBMD in October-December 1869 in Lewisham (1d 1100).
In the 1871 census as Mary Luff aged 24, born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, and living with her husband (James), son (Henry G) and three lodgers (George Goodwin aged 25, born in Lewisham, Kent, widowed and a bricklayer, A H Easley aged 75, born in Clerkenwell, Middlesex, widowed and no stated employment, and M A Easley aged 44, born in Clerkenwell, Middlesex and no stated employment) at Blunden House, Hill Road, Sydenham, Kent. Another two families were living at the same address.
In the 1881 census as Mary Luff aged 34, born in Birmingham, Warwickshire and living with her husband (James), three sons (Henry, James and Thomas), three daughters (Emily, Harriet and Maud) and a lodger (Elizabeth Buck aged 60, born in Shoreditch, Middlesex, widowed and no stated employment) at 6 Roland Grove, Sydenham, Kent.
In the 1891 census as Mary Luff aged 42, born in Warwickshire, and living with her husband (James), two sons (Arthur and H G), and three daughters (Harriett, Mary L and Maud) at 13 Rowland Grove (off Dallas Road), Sydenham, Lewisham, London. Three other families were living at the same address.
In the 1901 census as Mary Labb (original is illegible) aged 54, born in Birmingham, and living with her husband (James), son (James) and two daughters (both named Mary) at 11 Union Grove, Sydenham, London.
In the 1911 census as Mary Luff aged 64, born in Ashton, Birmingham, seven children, one having died, and living with her husband (James) and son (James John) in five rooms at 16 Kemble Road, Forest Hill, Kent S E.
Her husband died in Croydon in 1915.
In the 1921 census as Mary Luff born in West Bromwich, Staffordshire in 1847, and living with James John and Maud Mary Luff (children?) in Croydon, Surrey.
Death of Mary Luff in FreeBMD in October-December 1928 aged 79 in Edmonton (3a 593).
Two entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Mary Lester.
A bible rescued from a house clearance contains the following in the front cover:
Mary Lester was the wife of James Luff, my half first cousin twice removed.
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