Mary Elizabeth Harvey nee Mayo
Mary Elizabeth Mayo was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of Jonah and Ann nee Burden. Two of her older siblings had died as babies and perhaps this is why Mary Elizabeth came to be brought up in England by her aunt and uncle.
At some point after 1859 her parents had left England for America; father Jonah was a glover. He and his wife Ann both came from Oxfordshire originally. Mary Elizabeth was born on 18 June 1870, but by the time of the 1891 UK census she was living with her mother's sister Martha and her family in Charlbury, Oxfordshire; Martha's husband Frederick Farmer was a glove manufacturer. Upon Mary Elizabeth's marriage in 1897 she is noted in the records as having taken the name Farmer though her real name was Mayo. Her father Jonah had died in Philadelphia in 1892.
On 16 August 1887,, then, she married
Arthur Edward Harvey (see
C2.2). They went on to have six children, though four of them died in infancy. At first they lived in Brackley, but had moved to Woolland in Dorset by 1900, Arthur's native parish. His job as a gamekeeper provided the option to move, presumably, since by 1911 they were living near Salisbury. When Arthur was called up for war service in 1918, at the age of 45, they were living at the Deer Keeper's Lodge in Stoneleigh Park.
Mary Elizabeth died at the relatively young age of 58 on 18 March 1929.
Arthur Edward Harvey, C2.2.
Arthur Edward Harvey was born in Woolland Dorset on 20 January 1873, the son of John and Susan Harvey nee Moors. He had nine siblings. He continued to live in Dorset until his marriage to Mary Elizabeth Mayo (see
B5.10) on 16 August 1887. They had six children, though four of them died in infancy. The family moved between Brackley and Salisbury until finally arriving in Stoneleigh sometime between 1911 and 1918, when Arthur was called up for military service at the age of 45. He was a gamekeeper but on his service record he is described as a rabbit catcher. At that time they lived at the Deer Keeper's Lodge. Arthur's wife died in 1929 and by the time of the 1939 register he was living with his daughter Alice and family at Bridge End.
When he died on 20 January 1952 he was living at 26 Hall Close. His headstone proudly proclaims that he was "local gamekeeper to Lord Leigh".