Mary Ann Harper (cal 1865 - 1932)

Birth
calculated 1865

Dudley, Worcestershire, England^4,2

Marriage
15 April 1883

To Stanley Wright
St Jude's Parish Church, Tonk Street, Birmingham, England

Notes:
Woman's age: 18y
Man's Age: 21y
"St Jude’s, Tonk Street, now Hill Street in the City Centre, was a building of brick designed in Early English style by Orford & Nash, and consisting of a chancel, nave and aisles. It was a Commissioners' church. With a grant by the Commissioners of only £500, the bulk of the finance must have been raised elsewhere.

Building began in 1847, a parish already having been assigned out of those of St Martin's and St Philip's two years previously. Services were held in the National school in Pinfold Street until the church was consecrated in 1851. The church had 1300 sittings, of which 1000 were free. The parish was further enlarged out of St Martin's in 1885 serving a population of some 6000 people.

St Jude’s was the parish church of a district which included Greens Village, The Hinkleys, The Froggery and The Rookeries, districts of the very poorest parts of Birmingham. From the mid-18th to the mid-19th century, this was a notorious slum area off Hill Street of crowded back-to-back houses many occupied by an immigrant Irish population. The living of St Jude’s, only £150, was one of the poorest in the town.

By 1879 the church building, badly in need of care and attention, was renovated. By this time the area had been improved by the demolition of the many rookeries surrounding it as a result of the building and expansion of New Street Station from 1852. The term ‘rookery’ was used colloquially in the 19th century of dilapidated tenements and slum dwellings, the haunts of thieves and crooks." from http://ahistoryofbirminghamchurches.jimdo.com/birmingham-st-martin-in-the-bull-ring/st-jude-hill-street/⁴

Residence
15 April 1883

Hill Street, (City Centre), Birmingham, England⁴

Residence
4 September 1883

42, Broadway Street, Burton Extra, Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England⁶

Census
5 April 1891

Bradley Street, Stapenhill, Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England⁵

Residence
6 February 1896

Albert Terrace, Albert Road, Kings Heath, Worcestershire, England¹

Occupation
31 March 1901

House Painter²

Census
31 March 1901

40, Highbury Road, Kings Heath, Worcestershire, England²

Occupation
2 April 1911

Charwoman³

Census
2 April 1911

1, Eton Road, Balsall Heath, Birmingham, England³

Residence
11 September 1911

19, Gosford Street, Balsall Heath, Birmingham, England¹²

Residence
from 1918 to 1930

49, Gough Road, Greet, Birmingham, England^13,11

Residence
24 March 1932

49, Gough Road, Greet, Birmingham, England¹⁰

Death
24 March 1932

Selly Oak Hospital, Raddlebarn Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham, England
Cause: I(a) Carcinoma Ventriculi¹⁰