Heirology

Ancestors

Mary Elizabeth Varley

1869-1939 · Waltham
Born 1869, Waltham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Died 1939
Father: Thomas D. Mitchell
Mother: Mary Mitchell
Children include Edwin

Mary Elizabeth Mitchell was born at Waltham, Massachusetts, on 7 August 1869, the first child of Thomas Mitchell, an Irish-born laborer, and Mary Donahoe, who had married at Waltham the year before. She grew up on John Street with a houseful of younger brothers and sisters: Winifred, Margaret, Edward, Ellen, John, Isabella, Alice and Margaret Loretta.

On 28 June 1892, aged 22, she married Patrick Edward Varley, a barber eight years older with a shop on Main Street. Their children were Edwin Clement, born 1893, Arthur Paul, 1896, Chester Joseph, 1898, Warren Francis, 1901, Mary Patricia, 1905, and Eugene. The family lived on Taylor Street and then at 156 Myrtle Street, while Patrick's shop moved up Moody Street. Her son Arthur died in 1928, aged 31.

Mary died in 1939, aged about 70. She is buried in Calvary Cemetery, Waltham, in Section 6, Lot 726, under the granite monument lettered VARLEY. Patrick followed her there in 1955; his death notice called him "husband of the late Mary (Mitchell) Varley."

Sources

Find a Grave memorial: Mary Elizabeth Mitchell Varley (1869-1939)
Find a Grave, memorial 121207444, Mary Elizabeth Mitchell Varley, Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum, Waltham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Section 6, Lot 726
Proves: Lists Edwin Clement Varley (1893-1966) among the children of Mary Elizabeth Mitchell Varley and her husband Patrick Edward Varley, married 1892; Edwin's own memorial (121266225) links her as his mother.
Newspaper death notice, March 1955, clipping on Find a Grave memorial 121207377, Patrick Edward Varley.
Find a Grave memorial 121207377, Patrick Edward Varley, Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum, Waltham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, photograph added May 2024.
Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1638-1927, marriages, Waltham 1892, p. 385, FamilySearch ark 1:1:N47J-BKL; bride's entry 1:1:N47J-BK5; town copy 1:1:QPHL-2JT3.
Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1638-1927, births, Waltham 1893, FamilySearch ark 1:1:FXNW-CKT; Cambridge town copy 1:1:DZM6-C76Z.
Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1638-1927, births, Waltham 1869, FamilySearch ark 1:1:FXZL-QXH; town copy 1:1:F4KD-L61.
Massachusetts state birth record (FamilySearch 1:1:FXZL-QXH); marriage, Waltham, 1892 (1:1:N47J-BK5); 1880 census Waltham; Find a Grave memorial 121207444; death notice of Patrick E. Varley, 1955.

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