Biography
Mary Hawes was the youngest of the four children identified by the family as children of Walter Joseph William Hawes and Frances Ellen “Nellie” Creese. A birth-index entry was registered in Croydon, Surrey, during the first quarter of 1919, with mother’s maiden surname Creese (volume 2A, page 433). The index does not establish an exact birth date or independently identify her father. Family testimony identifies her husband as the Reverend Grant MacLaren. Marriage details and their later family history remain to be documented.
1921: 46 Gipsy Hill
Recorded as Mary Hawes, aged 2 years 4 months, a boarder in Charles S. Bradley’s household, with Walter, Nellie and the four Hawes children. The parental-survival entry says both parents alive. View the original census and household transcription →
Marriage to Rev Grant MacLaren
On 8 November 2026, Antony Greenfield identified the Reverend Grant MacLaren as Mary’s husband and supplied his portrait. A subsequently supplied wedding card records their marriage at Christ Church, Gipsy Hill, London, on 16 June 1945, and gives their address as The Vicarage, Penn Fields, Wolverhampton. The card prints his surname as MacLaren, correcting the earlier family spelling McClaren. His life dates, denomination and exact clerical appointment remain to be established.
Research and verification
The current tree entry is based on Civil birth index, Croydon, 1919 Q1; family identification. Original certificates, census records and other first-hand documents are still needed to expand this account.
Facts and dates
- Husband (family testimony)
- Rev Grant MacLaren
- Recorded dates
- birth registered Jan–Mar 1919
- Research source
- Civil birth index, Croydon, 1919 Q1; family identification
Birth registered Jan–Mar 1919 – died 25 November 2001
Family records
Dates and events recorded in the family records. Month-only dates may be registration periods. Where sources disagree, the differences are noted below.
Research note: The family records supply the fuller name Mary Frances Hawes and death on 25 November 2001. It supplies no birth event; the existing January–March 1919 registration remains in place. Her spouse is spelled Grant McClaren in the family records; earlier family information used McLaren.
- Residence
- Derbyshire, England
Source: England and Wales, Death Index, 1989-2021 — Greypower Deceased Data; Compiled By Wilmington Millennium; West Yorkshire, England; England and Wales Death Indexes Record ↗ - Death
- 25 Nov 2001
Source: England and Wales, Death Index, 1989-2021 — Greypower Deceased Data; Compiled By Wilmington Millennium; West Yorkshire, England; England and Wales Death Indexes Record ↗
Name in family records: Mary Frances Hawes.
Documents & photographs
Identified by Antony Greenfield as Mary Frances Hawes. Original family photograph displayed as supplied, without restoration. Date and photographer unconfirmed.
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Identified by Antony Greenfield as Mary Frances Hawes. Original supplied photograph, displayed without restoration. Date and photographer unconfirmed.
View original photograph →Identified by Antony Greenfield as Mary and Madeline Hawes. Original supplied photograph, displayed without restoration. Date and photographer unconfirmed.
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Christ Church, Gipsy Hill; original photograph and printed marriage card.
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Mary’s husband, photographed in clerical dress.
View photograph and notes →References and research
Source: family records and accompanying family research. Original documentary verification remains outstanding.
Original evidence is distinguished from information in family records and family recollections. Personal details of living descendants are withheld.