Mary Eliza Bateman

  Notes:

1841 Census (age 1) living at Church Row, St. Mary Islington East, Middlesex (London) with husband, mother Mary(35) and brother Henry. Think also 2 students with them. Presumably she was actually 7 (see 1851) and I got the date wrong !

1845 she is apparently one of the founding governors of Emanuel College (founded by her father), although only 10yrs old ?

1851 Census (age 16) living (with her sister Emily) as a boarder at Eddington House School, Herne, Kent.

Wendy found; Morning Chronicle Thus July 10 1856; Mary Eliza Batemen on 5inst at the New Church Argyle Sq William Downing BIDEN Esq to Mary Eliza eldest daughter of Henry Bateman FRCS

1861 Census; Living as wife (age 26) at 9 Landsdown Cottages, Lower Road, (Finsbury) Islington with husband, 3 children and 2 servants.

According to Ann G-P research they had 4 sons and 6 dau.

From ancestry;
Two burials being noted as being at the Church of England Cemetery at Singleton, NSW: William Downing BIDEN (Died: 3 June, 1876) and his wife: Mary Eliza BIDEN (Date unknown).
and
Singleton FHS published 6 vols of district cemetery transcriptions. William bur Whittingham, the name for one of main cemeteries for Singleton. In their "Singleton Pioneer Register" 1989 they list his spouse as Mary Eliza Biden (nee Bateman) CofE d. 31.3.1880 bur. Waverley. William reported to been surveyor with AA Coy."

Mary married William Downing Biden F.G.S. on 5 Jul 1856 in New Church, Argyle Square, Islington. (William Downing Biden F.G.S. was born in 1820 in Twickenham, Middlesex, died on 3 Jun 1876 in Singleton, NSW, Australia and was buried in 1876 in Church Of England Cemetery, Singleton, NSW, Australia.)