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Mary Caroline Gorham, daughter of William Gorham and Mary Gorham
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Mary Caroline Gorham was born in 1818 at Penshurst, the second daughter of William and Mary Gorham. In 1923 her widowed mother and her family moved to Tonbridge where Mary Caroline was educated. Her whole life until her death in 1932 was dedicated to social, religious and philanthropic work for which she was hohoured with an M.B.E. Her early work was with Lady Henry Somerset and the Duxhurst Homes and with St Stephens Church and in 1890 she was a founder of the Mission at St Eanswythes.


See also The Gorham Family by Arthur H. Neve published in 1933.
Date
Type
Information
Source
 
1818
Born
In the Parish of Penshurst, Kent
1851 Census
 
1841
At Dry Hill in the Parish of Tonbridge, Kent; Caroline Gorham, M, [Daughter], age 24, born Kent
1841 Census
 
1851
At High Street in the Parish of Tonbridge, Kent; Caroline Gorham, F, Sister, age 33, born Penshurst, Kent
1851 Census
 
1861
At Dry Hill in the Parish of Tonbridge, Kent; Caroline Gorham, F, Daughter, age 43, born Penshurst, Kent
1861 Census
 
January 1932
Honoured
M.B.E. in recognition for her social, religious and philanthropic work
Neve's Tonbridge
 
28th February 1932
Died
In the Parish of Tonbridge, Kent
Neve's Tonbridge
 
21st April 1932
Probate
London; Effects: £16,176 11s 3d
Probate Registry of England and Wales

Ancestor's report
No descendent's report
Gorham, Goreham family records
The ancestral pedigree of Mary Caroline Gorham
  
 William Gorhamm: c 1810Mary 
 b: c 1780
d: Apr 1817 Tunbridge Wells, Kent
bur: After Apr 1817 Emmanuel Church, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
  b: 1784 Ticehurst, Sussex
d: 1865
 
  
    
 Dr John William Mary Caroline Isabella
 b: 1814 Penshurst, Kent
d: 13th Dec 1899
 b: 1816 Penshurst, Kent
d: Dec 1881
 b: 1818 Penshurst, Kent
d: 28th Feb 1932 Tonbridge, Kent
 b: 1818
       
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