Mary Ann Blake

Mary Ann Suckling was born in Steeple Bumpstead, Essex, England on 16 March 1852.

She was baptized in Steeple Bumpstead, Essex England, on 25 July 1858.

Her father was not documented and her mother was unmarried. She was baptized under her mothers maiden name of Turner.

She came to New Zealand in 1865 with her mother, step-father, brother and half brother, another half brother was born at sea in 1865 en route to New Zealand.

She was raised under the surname of Suckling (believed to be her paternal father's surname).

Mary Ann Suckling is acknowledged as a step-daughter in John Jackson Deed's probate file. She is also mentioned in the probate file of her mother Frances Elizabeth, but it does not reveal who her father was.

UK Baptism

• County: Essex
• Place: Steeple Bumpstead
• Church name: St Mary the Virgin
• Register type: Parish Register
• Register entry number: 375
• Baptism date: 25 Jul 1858
• Birth date: 16 Mar 1852
• Person forename: Mary Ann
• Person sex: F
• Mother forename: Elizabeth
• Mother surname: TURNER
• Register note: mother a Spinster

[NZH 9 May 1870] BLAKE - SUCKLING - In May 5th, at the residence of the bride;s stepfather, Waiuku, by the Rev, John Law, Charles Blake, of the Hutts, Wellington, to Mary Ann Suckling, lateof Steeple Bampstead, Essex, England.

Sources

1. http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/NEW-ZEALAND/2004-02/1...
2. MARRIAGES., Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 103, 9 May 1870
3. MARRIAGES., Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3969, 12 May 1870
4. MARRIAGES., New Zealand Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1990, 4 June 1870
5. MARRIAGES., Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3989, 4 June 1870