Individuals:

Fox, Mabel [Mab]

Birth Name Fox, Mabel [Mab]
Gender female

Events

Birth 1897-01-09  at  Douglas, Isle of Man
Death about 1972-06-29  at  Boundary Rd., Grayshot, Surrey?
Christening 1897-05-13  at  Douglas, Isle of Man

Parents

Father Fox, Charles ?James? J.P.
Mother Rowe, Isobel
Siblings
  1. Fox, Eileen

Families

Married Husband Lockwood Tatham, C.W.
  Marriage about 1914

Mum said:

He implied that if she did not marry him he would get himself killedin the war - so she did. The marriage did not last long after thewar.

Did she go to India with him, or to get away from everythingafterwards?

Married Husband Gosnell, Harry Theodore [Theo]
  Marriage 1923-09-00  at  Liverpool

think she probably met him in India:

His sister married someone who was involved in the Indian Police, somaybe the whole family were out there.

His family were also involved in the Indian branch of the East IndiaCompany (Ralli and Mavrogordato - cousins) - Mum says. -unsubstantiated - perhaps confused with Ralli Bros.

  Narrative

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl?start=1923&end=1923&sq=3&eq=3&type=Marriages&vol=8b&pgno=274&jsexec=1&mono=0&v=MTIyNzAwMzYyMDo5M2UzMDUxM2RkM2UzOTQ5ZDdmMzAyMTdkMTkyNWY5YTI4NThmZDM3&searchdef=db%3Dbmd_1225799362%26type%3DMarriages%26sq%3D1%26v%3DMTIyNzAwMzYwNjpiZWZlOWFiZjZiMjY4ZTA0MGMyNDI0MzI2ZTg1MjI4YmJiOTU1ZTBj%26s_surname%3Dfox%26eq%3D4%26surname%3Dgosnell&action=Find
  Children
  1. Gosnell, Michael [Mickey] Fox
  2. Gosnell, Adrian
  3. Gosnell, Christopher

Gallery

HTG&MF

HTG&MF

Narrative

born in Isle of Man
did a lot of travelling
probably met Gosnell in India

divorced 1st husband (Lockwood-Tatham?) - I have found a record of a Mabel A. Fox marrying a William Lockwood in Goole in June 1913 - could this be them ? Mum said that he insisted she marry him before he went off to war, but it didn't work out when he got back.

he was 2nd husband (married in 1920s)
Wrote for Car racing magazine ?? Personality at Brooklands - rode motorbikes round track in 20s
Knew Bentley Boys

Candy has book (The Girls Own Annual) inscribed:

Mabel Fox Xmas 1908 from mother + Daddy

was engaged to Frank Clement - one of the Bentley boys. 1st woman to drive 1st 3 litre Bentley around Brooklands with W.O.Bentley in it. She wrote about it in the Autocar. (Dad had the photos but they were stolen from his car)

JRAPC-D said that whilst in hospital after the birth of one baby, it was accidentally killed by a nurse putting a pile of washing on top of it...

Pedigree

  1. Fox, Charles ?James? J.P.
    1. Rowe, Isobel
      1. Fox, Eileen
      2. Fox, Mabel [Mab]
        1. Lockwood Tatham, C.W.
        2. Gosnell, Harry Theodore [Theo]
          1. Gosnell, Michael [Mickey] Fox
          2. Gosnell, Adrian
          3. Gosnell, Christopher

Ancestors

Fox, Mabel [Mab]
Fox, Charles ?James? J.P.
Fox, Charles ?James?
Murray, M.
Rowe, Isobel