#408, Mary Selby PARKIN

Married by the Reverend R B Dand, Rector of Woodbridge. He gave them two gold sovereigns on a card which carried the message "With every good wish & as a symbol that your path will be golden" Confirmed 11/11/1922 by the Bishop of St Alban's & first Communion 16 or 17/11/1922. Engagement announced 26/6/1928 saying that her mother was living then at 31A Macaulay Road, Clapham.

Mary was naturally gregarious and had friends right up to the end of her life.
One such friend called Sue wrote for Mary, who she called 'My Special Lady', a little farewell poem which she titled 'A Little Thought.'

When you're feeling lonely and it's cold, wet and grey,
Wrap my arms around you, make a warm summer's day.

And in the early hours when its very hard to sleep,
Wrap my arms around you instead of counting sheep.

But if the light won't shine through, 'cause all you feel is pain,
Wrap my arms around you, we'll make it right again.

Thinking of you. All my love, Sue.

1911 census has her living in Boscobel Road, St Leonards on Sea, Sussex