© 2016 David E. Spencer
Mary was 55 when she married for the first time. She had lived with her father until his death in 1887. She then moved to live "on her own means" at Birling Terrace in Fleetwood. Her brother Jeremiah and his family were also living in Fleetwood at the same time. Birling Terrace was then, as now, a desirable place to live on the main promenade at Fleetwood with views over the Irish Sea.
Mary Ann married David Brodie, a retired master mariner, in 1893 at Westby Street Congregationalist Church in Lytham. David was a widower with two sons and two daughters from his first marriage. Mary Ann's two grown up step daughters are living with David and Mary Ann at the time of the 1901 census in Fleetwood at Buckingham Place. Although no longer on modern maps this was part of a cluster of Terraces and Places named after royal residences such as Windsor and Balmoral Terraces. These are near the Mount on the promenade and not far from Birling Terrace.
After David's death late in 1901 Mary returned to Burnley and by the time of the 1911 census she was living in Burnley at 47 Thorn Street. She died in December 1914.Mary Ann is buried at All Saints Church, Habergham, Burnley with her parents and some of her brothers.