Biography of Mabel Rose HARDING
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Biography of Mabel Rose HARDING
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Mabel Rose Harding was born in Dringhouses, Yorkshire in 1877 and was baptised at St.Edwards church in Dringhouses on 28 October the same year. She was known as Rose.
The 1881 census shows that the family living Mill Street, Norton near Malton. The family were at the same address in 1891 but when the census was taken, both Rose and her older sister Minna were visiting station master Walter Johnson and family at Goldsbrugh railway station near Ripon, Yorks.
Rose married locally born solicitors clerk Harry Witty at Malton in 1899. Their son Geoffrey Kirby was born in Scarborough in 1900. The 1901 census shows the family living at 26 Garfield Road in Scarborough, Yorks. Daughter Pyhllis was born there in 1902 and son Leslie Augustus on 14 November 1903. Their son Geoffrey died in 1910 at the age of 10. The 1911 census records the family's address as 30 Nansen Street in Scarborough, Yorks.
On 23 April 1913, the family embarked aboard the White Star Liner Medic at Liverpool to emigrate to Australia. They sailed via Cape Town and Albany and arrived in Melbourne on 3 June. Their destination had been given as c/o B Bradley, Station Street, Melbourne.
The electoral registers between 1914 and 1942 track the locations that Rose and Harry lived. In 1914 and 1915 they were at Ellingworth Parade, Box Hill, Kooyong, Melbourne, Victoria. In 1919 their address was 52 William Street, Box Hill, Melbourne then between 1925 and 1942 they lived at 22 Moffatt Sreet, Brighton, Henty, Victoria. Her husband Harry passed away in 1943. At the time of her death in 1949, Rose lived in Hampton in Victoria.
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