Mary Ann Tune

• General Notes
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    Frank Tippin Ballard in his diary written late in life (in the possession of Ralph Ballard) records that:
    "Her husband Stephen Gilbert died young.  She had 3 children by him - Edward, Florence, and Tom Henry.
    She later remarried Thomas Foxall from Bridgeworth.
    Thomas and Mary had 2 children - Bertha and Elsie Foxall.
    Bertha married George Williams, a post office employee.  They had a son Lennie.
    Elsie married Jack Blackham.
    Mary's sister had a daughter Florence who moved to London.  She married Alf Williams, a wool brokers clerk.
    Mary's sister, Rose Tune, was only a few years older than Florence Gilbert and they both went to the same convent boarding school after Mary remarried Thomas Foxall.
    Rose Tune later married John Coley a veteran of the Boer War where he served with the Coldstream Guards.  They had 2 children - Harold and Olive. 
    Mary's brother Ted was a seasonal worker doing hop picking, fruit picking and general farm work.
    Between jobs he would stay with his niece Florence Gilbert and her husband Frank Ballard senior."