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When and where did she die?
Born 1892. Baptized 1st May at Swinton daughter of Henry Hetherington and Mary Jane Yates.
Married Harold Machin 1918. Harold died in 1937 and probate was granted to his widow Theodora Smith Machin. The Sheffield Independent carried an announcement of his death and a notification of the burial service. In 1939 she was shown as living alone at 37 Edale Road, Sheffield and 29th June 1942 jointly with her married sister Annie she was granted probate of her mother’s estate. She then seems to disappear.
Any thoughts or ideas of what became of her will be greatly appreciated.

I believe the marriage between John Watmore and Mary Hockley took place in the December quarter of 1861 in the Whitchurch, Hampshire District, Volume 2c Page 360. I have convinced myself that there is a double up of entries in the GRO Index, the four names I am interested in are John Watmore, John Whatmore, Mary Hockley and Mary Lockley. The situation is not made any easier as FreeBMD presently have transcription errors for the Watmore/Whatmore names and also the volume number for Mary Lockley. My assumption is that originally a marriage was registered between John Whatmore and Mary Lockley and later an error was found causing a second entry.

My question is if I purchase, as seems obvious, the certificate for Mary Hockley what if any information will be shown regarding the previous entry? I do realise that I have made some suppositions but your comments would be appreciated.

Spiderboy.

Ancestry have posted (perhaps it should be started posting) Dorset Electoral Registers 1839 - 1922 on line for those with subscriptions.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,504450.0.html

I presume that Coroner’s papers will not have survived – has anyone a suggestion as to which newspaper I should look at for a report of the accident?

Spiderboy.

I have Robert Watmore a C.P.R. Roadmaster who, thanks to the various links shown on this site, I have traced in 1901 and 1911. In 1901 living in or near Sicamous he said his earnings were 1500 and in 1911 in Cedar Cottage Vancouver, shown in column 17 as a C.P.R. Roadmaster with what I think is Real Estate entered in column 18, his earnings were 2000. A nurse was in the household in 1911 and presumably Robert was on his death bed as a few days after the census was taken he died and his remains were shipped to England where he was buried in his home parish with what looks to be a fairly expensive headstone. Presumably this would not have been cheap to do and I wondered if anyone could put his earnings into a modern perspective for me. His widow died in 1952 and presumably was not left destitute.

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