Believed to be the daughter of Samuel Mather, who was living with her mother about the time she was concieved. Also, the 1920 birth of Miles, shows the mother's maiden name as Mather.
In 1911, living at 2 Top-Oth-Croft, Smithills
3 Oct 1903 Mary Ellen married Thomas Standish at Delph Hill Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Bolton. She recorded her father as Thomas Pennington, Cotton Warper, but he had died a few years before she was born, and the birth record does not name the father.
1911, at 2 Top-Oth-Croft, Smithills, Bolton, aged 6
In Feb 1921, Mary E Standish (39) and three children Constance (12), John C (8) and Cecil (10mo) sailed from Liverpool to New York.
Mary and Thomas were married in a civil ceremony on October 3rd, 1903 in Bolton by minister Philip J. Cocking and witnessed by Francis Chas. Cheetham & Harriet Jane Titterick.3
Marriage/Union Notes
Lancashire Marriage indexes for the years: 1903 PENNINGTON Mary E STANDISH Thomas Bolton Register Office or Registrar Attended RO/146/4