For a long time I have been trying to find out about my gg grandmother Mary Spencer, nee Hardy / Hardding. She is described as the wife of Francis Spencer, hosier (born 1820, Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire) but I have been unable to find a marriage in either England or Ireland. (The Francis Spencer who married Ellen Matilda Appleyard in 1865 is one of Francis senior’s sons by his 1st wife). Mary and Francis lived in Drogheda Street, Balbriggan from the early 1860s to 1895, when Francis died. Mary was the informant on Francis's death certificate, his widow, present at death, her mark.
The couple had 2 sons whilst in Balbriggan: Wrighthall, my g grandfather, born 1866 (mother Hardding on birth certificate) and Robert born 1870 (mother Hardy). Both boys were baptised in 1876 in St George's Church of Ireland Church, Balbriggan. Wrighthall was married in Attenborough Parish Church, Notts in 1889, and lived in Sutton in Ashfield from 1911 to his death in 1936. Robert emigrated to Los Angeles in 1919, and the 1920 US census said his mother was English - I guess that she probably came from Nottinghamshire like Francis.
There is a possible Mary Spencer in Mill Street, Balbriggan in the 1901 census, though this says she can read and write. I have been unable to find her death in Ireland or England.
I would love to know when and where she was born and died.
