Mabel Irene (Dennett) Wheen (1885)

Born Sep 1885 in Hull, Yorkshire, England

Wife of Charles Harold Wheen — married Mar 1905 in Saint Pancras, London, Middlesex, England

Died [date unknown] in Australia [uncertain]

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Biography

Mabel was born in 1885, daughter of William Henry Dennett, a corn merchant.

She married at age twenty, in London, and shortly after that gave birth to a daughter, Mary Wheen, about whom nothing is known owing to the "100-year" rule of non-disclosure.

Unfortunately, nothing is known about Mabel, subsequent to the birth of her daughter, and the 1921 Census of England and Wales, published early in 2022, contains no mention of her. The fact is that this lady more or less disappears. Her husband Charles is glimpsed in 1939, in Devon, and dies there in 1954, giving no sign of a spouse.

Mabel herself does not appear to have died in England. There is a grave in Sydney, Australia, of a "Mabel Irene Wheen" who died there in 1968, aged 82. The grave is dedicated to "Our Mother". There are grounds for thinking that both Mabel - and later, her only daughter Mary Wheen - left England (and Mr Wheen) to manage without them.

Sources

• GRO INDEX : Births Sep 1885 Dennett Mabel Irene Sculcoates 9d 214
• GRO INDEX : Marriages Mar 1905 WHEEN Charles Harold & DENNETT Mabel Irene Pancras 1b 36
• Research by Richard Oliver