Born in Boxted, Essex, England, United Kingdom
Ancestors 
Daughter of Mark Lay
and Mary Harriet (Strowger) Lay
Sister of
Alice Lay, John Royce Lay, Ellen (Lay) Spooner, Charles Maurice Lay, Edward Lewes Lay [half] and Elizabeth Byam (Lay) Haager [half]
Wife of
Benjamin Eamonson Metcalfe
— married
1857 in Lexden, Essex, England, United Kingdom
[children unknown]
Died about
at about age 62
in Whitby, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom [uncertain]
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Biography
Birth
Mary Stronger Lay was born in 1832. She was the daughter of Mark Lay and Mary Strowger.
Mary was christened in Boxted, Essex on 4th March 1833. [1]
Marriage
She married Benjamin Metcalfe in 1857. Free BMD marriage record 1857. [2]
Free BMD marriage record 1857. [3]
Census
In the 1851 census Mary Stronger Lay aged 18 was living with the family in Boxted, Essex. [4]
- Alice Lay F 29 Boxted In, Essex
- Mary Lay F 18 Boxted In, Essex
- Ellen Lay F 15 Boxted In, Essex
- Margaret Baldwin F 58 St Andrews Ilkits Hall, Suffolk
- Thomas Snell M 48 Middleton, Essex
- Hannah Snell F 49 Acton, Suffolk
- Martha Ann Spooner F 15 Nayland, Suffolk
Death
Mary passed away in (Sept. Qtr) 1895.
Sources
- ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:2:9WCF-PZ8 : 19 September 2020), Entry for Mary Strowger Lay, 1833.
- ↑ "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:2:99CG-1GB6 : 13 December 2014), Entry for Mary Strowger Lay, 1857; from "England & Wales Marriages, 1837-2005," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing 1857, quarter 4, vol. 4A, p. 437, Lexden, Essex, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.
- ↑ https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=ZRKeGb0JsP01Bis8qgvuMg&scan=1
- ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1851," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGVW-PVZ : 9 November 2019), Mary Stronger Lay in household of Alice Lay, Boxted, Essex, England; citing Boxted, Essex, England, p. 6, from "1851 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO HO 107, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.
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