Mrs M A St Clair Stobbard store keeper during AZW

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Bournemouth Graphic - Friday 27 November 1936

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Hi All
For those interested Mabel Stobart was born 3 Feb 1862, so would have been only 17 in the Zulu War, she died 7 Dec 1954 and is buried in St Nicholas Churchyard, Studland, Purbeck, Dorset.
She appears on the findagrave website.
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Hi All

Mabel St Clair Stobart (nee Boulton) 3 February 1862 - 7 Dec 1954 was a Suffragist and Aid worker, she became Stobart - Greenhalgh after her second marriage in 1911.
She moved with her family to the Transvaal in 1903 to set up a farm in the aftermath of the Boer war. She set up a trading store, but the family soon decided to return to England, no mention of her being in South Africa during the Zulu war.

See her full story at Wikipedia or Wikidata

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