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Mary Ann Varder Bridges (1870–1901)
Mary Ann Varder Grubb (1902–1922)

1870–1922

Daughter of Thomas and Mary Ann Bridges. Born in the Falklands. Travelled to Britain in 1880 to attend boarding school in Bristol; returned to Tierra del Fuego in 1888. Married the missionary Wilfrid Barbrooke Grubb in 1901 after an eleven-year engagement. Lived in Scotland from 1909.

Sources

British families in southern Patagonia, https://patbrit.org/bil/supp/a0105.htm (accessed 28 August 2019)

ODNB s.v. Bridges, Thomas, c. 1842–98, and Grubb, Wilfrid Barbrooke

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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