The two girls died shortly after arriving in America where it was hoped the family could join her husband who was mining there. Alas, her husband had already died and had been burried before she could reach him.
Previously, whilst William and Mary…
Mary Louisa, born 1886 in Zennor, married Richard James Chappell in 1901. The back of the photograph says Lanoweth but it is not known what this refers to.
A typed label fixed to the back of the print reads:
'British Writers:
Mary Stott
OPS Mary Stott, British writer and journalist whose latest book "Women Talking" was released by Pandora in 1987. She was the Editor of the Guardian Women's Page from…
Mary's first husband, William Grenfell, went to Colorado, USA to mine for gold. She went to look for him as she hadn't't heard from him for a while. She took her three children. Alas, by the time she got there he was dead and buried. Two daughters…