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| BIRTH: | 16 July 1873 - Hawksteel, Allendale, Northumberland |
| MARRIAGE: | 29 April 1889 - Ryhope, Sunderland |
| BURIED: | 4 February 1924 - Died in the Royal Infirmary Sunderland |
| KNOWN ADDRESSES: |
9 Spelter Work Road, Ryhope, Sunderland- 1881 7 Stockton Terrace, Grangetown, Sunderland - 1896 |
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Mary was born in 1873 in Warden, Northumberland. She was from a relatively wealthy family of paper makers. Her father, James, ran his own paper factory. Her mother was recorded on the birth certificate as Hannah Robson, formerly Stobbart. It is unclear whether Hannah died prematurely because by the time of the 1881 cenus Mary Ann is recorded living with her parents in Ryhope, Sunderland but her father's wife is May Agnes Robson. It appears from the birthplaces of her siblings that they had moved to Ryhope, Sunderland when Mary Ann was a baby, in approximately 1873. On 29 April 1889 she married George Tough in Ryhope, Sunderland. According to family rumour her parents weren't too happy about this, considering that she could have done better. Together they had thirteen children! The 1901 census records Mary Annie living with her husband, George, and the six children they had at the time. They also had an eighty-four-year-old widowed boarder living with them called Jane Lightly. Mary Annie recorded her birthplace as Hexham, Northumberland. Ten years after the birth of their last child, Millicent in 1914, Mary Annie died of an appendicitus. Oral history suggests that her husband George didn't think her ailment was serious and refused to take her to the hospital. She eventually died in the Royal Infirmary and was buried on 4 February 1924, aged 52. |
 Mary Annie Robson's birth certificate |
 Mary Annie's marriage certificate |
 St Paul's Church, Ryhope, where Mary Annie married George Tough |
 Mary Annie Robson-Tough |
 Mary Annie in the 1901 census, living with her husband, six children and a boarder |