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They did not
return alone as they had a child in toe whom was also named Mary Anne. Many
people believe she had another 3 or 4 children whom died whilst down at the West
Country, these are sometimes added to her death tally.
5th April 1857
Mary Anne had her first child in the North East she was named Margaret Jane
Mowbray she died soon after.
In September
1857 She gave birth to another girl she named Isabella.
24 June 1860
Mary Anne Mowbray the girl she had whilst down Cornwall Died of
Gastric Fever
1st October
1861 had another little girl also named Margaret Jane (2nd child with this name)
November 1863
John Robert (first boy born). The Mowbrays left Murton and moved to Sunderland
and within a year poor master John Robert Died.
William
Mowbray injured himself at work so he needed to rest at home and nursed by his
wife and from out of the blue he was stricken with Diarrhoea so severe he was
dead within hours his death certificate read "cause of death Gastric
Fever and Diarrhoea."
Now Mary Anne
on her own moved to Seaham where she met a chap named Joseph Nattrass, she had an
illicit affair with him which ended when he married his fiancée and moved to
Bishop Auckland area
May 1865
Margaret Jane Mowbray (the 2nd) Died at the age of three and a half this
was also down to Gastric fever.
Arsenic
Poisoning Symptoms
Nausea
, Vomiting, Diarrhoea
Abdominal
Pain, fever, Cramps
Lethargy,
Convulsions, Dizziness
Very
Similar to Gastric fever.
Isabella was
handed to Mary Anne's Mother Margaret Stott. Mary Anne went back to work
at the Sunderland Infirmary Hospital. It was here that she met George
Ward an in patient recovering from a fever maybe Typhoid and when he was
discharged they married 28th August 1865. Over the year his health
suffered with bleeding problems from which he recovered only to fall ill once
again with a mystery fever and lost his life 21st October 1866.
A Mr James
Robinson placed an advertisement in the paper for a housemaid to look after his
5 children after his wife had died. Mary Anne applied and got the job and lived
in the home in Pallion.
On 23 December
1866 some 3 weeks after Robinsons wife died and 1 week after May Anne arrived on
scene 10 Month old John Robinson died from Gastric Fever.
Within a few
months Mary Anne was Pregnant by Robinson. Mary Anne Went to her mothers
to look after her during a period of sickness but deteriorated when Mary Anne
lent a hand in fact only nine days later, she died March 1867 Cause of Death
Query Poisoning. Isabella went back to Mary Anne.
In 10 days
there were 3 more deaths - James Robinson junior Six years old died 21 April - Elizabeth
Robinson aged 8 years died 26 April - and Poor little Isabella aged nine
died May 2nd all three suffered symptoms of Gastric fever. After this Mary
Anne apparently became depressed and ill herself but soon recovered , more
likely to take the heat of her as James Robinson's sisters were very suspicious
of Mary Anne, but James was to ignore them and Married Mary on the 11 August
1867 now five months pregnant.
Mary Isabella
was born 29 November 1867 and was Buried 1 Month later after dying from yes you
guest it Gastric fever. That was the 5th child to die while living with Robinson
After an
incident regarding financial affairs Robinson and Mary split up. Robinsons
two remaining children , himself, and cottons second child she had to him survived
her evil reign. Perhaps this was because Robinson would not allow
himself to be insured against his death.
Mary Anne over the years had insured a high percentage of those she poisoned
with the British Prudential. She was not discovered because she continuously
used different surnames i.e.. to whom she was married to at the time and the
fact that she moved house around the north quite a bit.
Soon after Robinson
and Mary Anne separated, she went to visit a friend with her last remaining
child from Robinson whilst there she asked her friend if she minded looking
after it while she ran an errand. Mary Anne never did return for the
child and it was taken back to Robinson himself.
1870 Mary Anne
met a bloke called Frederick Cotton, after his wife and 2 children died they
became lovers (their deaths are not thought to be suspicious), but Margaret
Cotton, Freds sister, whom also a friend of Mary Anne (the only person in the
way of their relationship i.e. she lived in the same house as Fred Cotton ) died
in a manner that could raise a pointing finger.
17 September 1870 she and Fred were married, unbeknown to
him, it was a bigamist marriage because she never divorced Robinson and then
moved to West Auckland in the summer of 1871. Robert Robson Cotton was born Jan
18 1870
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