Mary Jane Hunkin



Dau. of William Hunkin & Ulletta Timmins Collins

Mary Jane Hunkin
Born 31.10.1890 at Probus, Cornwall, England
Marr. Andrew Herbert Towner 30.6.1908 at Mevagissey, Cornwall
Died 14th February 1970 at St. Austell, Cornwall


Children

Ethel
Ruby Clocena
Herbert Leslie


NOTE

Herbert died in infancy. Andrew (1887-1915), of Redfern, NSW, Australia. S. of George Towner & Sophia Jane Robinson. Andrew was killed in action on board HMS Goliath at Dardenelles (Turkish strait connecting the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean Sea).

Marriage 30-Jun 1908 Mevagissey HUNKIN Mary Jane, d. William Andrew Herbert TOWNER PR Wit: Wm Hunkin & Wm Rickard.

Ethel (1909-1997) marr. William Halliday (died on board HMS Rawalpindi, On 23 Nov, 1939, the HMS Rawalpindi (Capt E.C. Kennedy, R.N.) on Northern Patrol was shelled and sunk by the German battlecruiser Scharnhorst southeast of Iceland in the Iceland-Faroe passage. 275 dead and 37 survivors. The battlecruiser had tried to break out into the Atlantic together with the sistership Gneisenau. The ships returned to Germany to avoid the now searching warships of the British Home Fleet).

Ruby (1913-1990) marr. David Arthur Charles.

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