Born in Cheddar, Somerset, England, United Kingdom
Ancestors 
Daughter of James Tanner
and Gertrude Mary (Hingston) Tanner
Sister of
James Tanner Jnr, John Tanner, Margaret (Tanner) Whyte, Gertrude Amy (Tanner) Molony, Thomas Hingston Tanner and Elizabeth Ann (Tanner) Cushnie [half]
Wife of
Joseph Lawry Vercoe
— married
6 Apr 1895 in Te Puke, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
Descendants 
Mother of
Mary (Naish) Vercoe
Died
at age 73
in Te Puke, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
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Mary (Tanner) Vercoe migrated from England to New Zealand.
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Biography
Mary was born in 1867. She is the daughter of James Tanner and Gertrude Hingston.[1]
UK Census Date 1871: Living with her parents, three siblings and two servants in Cheddar, Somersetshire, England. Aged 3.
At the age of 13 Mary emigrated from England to New Zealand with her parents and five siblings. They travelled on the Lady Jocelyn, departing London on 27 September 1880 and arriving into Tauranga on 2 January 1881.[2]
The Tanner family were among the first settlers to Te Puke, about 30 minutes out of Tauranga.
Mary married Joseph Lawry Vercoe (son of Henry Walter Vercoe and Amelia Cooper) on 6 April 1895. They had about 9 children.
Her husband passed away in 1934.
Mary passed away in 1940 at the age of 73.
Burial
Cremated, Ashes scattered - Waikumete Cemetery Ashes Garden, Auckland, New Zealand[3]
Sources
- ↑ "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2X3G-63R : 1 October 2014), Mary Naish Tanner, 1867; from "England & Wales Births, 1837-2006,"
- ↑ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sooty/LADEY-JOCELYNFrame1Source1.html
- ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #181276228
Census Records
- "England and Wales Census, 1871", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VFJT-3RK : 23 June 2017), Mary Naish Tanner in entry for James Tanner, 1871.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mary:
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~0.78%
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Rejected matches › Mary Anne (Tanner) Crockford (abt.1865-abt.1917) › Mary Ann (Tanner) Trusler (1868-1936) › Mary Emma (Coulter) Varcoe (1869-1944) › Mary Jane (Rees) Tanner (1865-1941) › Mary I Tanner (1868-) › Mary Isabella (Mills) Verco (1866-1937) › Mary A Tanner (1866-1939)
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