Mary Steele [SEP] date of birth
Mary Steele
Mary Steele (November 1678 – 26 December 1718) ("née" Mary Scurlock) was the second wife of Sir Richard Steele, whom she married in 1707.
She was born in Carmarthen, the daughter of Jonathan Scurlock, Sheriff of Carmarthen. Being his only child, she inherited the Llangunnor estate, where Steele retired a few years before his death in 1729.
The correspondence between Steele and his wife, whom he nicknamed "Prue" (because of her frugality), is famous.
- England & Wales, Birth Index: 1837-1983  1892  Q3-Jul-Aug-Sep  Page 319; Mary Clare Absalom
- England & Wales, Marriage Index: 1837-1983  1915  Q3-Jul-Aug-Sep  Page 1171; Mary Clare Absalom & Lionel P. Mawhood
- England & Wales, Death Index: 1837-1983  1970  Q3-Jul-Aug-Sep  Entry reads; "MAWHOOD Mary Clare b 17th Jy 1892 Harrow 5b 1903"
- England & Wales, Birth