Marjory Mabel Farrington (1914)

Mabel Marjory Farrington, known from birth as Marjory Mabel Farrington (born 14 February 1914)

Biography
Mabel Marjory Farrington was born on 14 February 1914 at 100 Saint Xaviour Road, Croydon, Surrey. Her parents were Edward Farrington and Daisy Forrest Meaden. She had eleven siblings, including a twin brother who died in infancy, and was one of the eight who survived childhood. In 1937 the eldest child, Eva, died aged twenty-seven and two years later Daisy Farrington died aged fifty-eight. In 1935 Marjory married William Skeet, an aeroplane engineer three years her senior. No children came out of the marriage and William died aged fifty-nine in 1970. After that Marjory moved to Australia and in about 1980 married her second husband and family friend, the recently widowed Herbert George Smith. The second marriage remained childless, due to the age of the couple, however Marjory did gain two stepchildren, Patrick George Smith and Jennifer Smith, a son-in-law, Ferdinand Cornelis Boers, a daughter-in-law, Nadine Ann Whittle, four grandchildren, Warwick & Hedi Boers and Craig Trevor & Debbie Nadine Smith. Herbert George Smith suffered a cardiac arrest after an illness in his home and passed away in August 1992, leaving Marjory a widow for a second time.