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Oct 27, 2016 · Birth of Mabel Suffield, Tolkien’s mother, in Birmingham. 21 January 1889: Birth of Edith Mary Bratt, Tolkien’s future wife, in Gloucester. 16 April 1891: Arthur Tolkien and Mabel Suffield get married in Cape Town Cathedral. 3 January 1892: Birth of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now part of South Africa). 17 ...
- Marriage to Arthur Tolkien
- Raising Two Sons
- Conversion to Catholicism
- Life in Moseley and Edgbaston
- Death
Mabel Suffield grew up in Birmingham. In March 1891 she sailed from England to meet and marry her fiancé and marry in South Africa after an engagement of three years. Her father, John Suffield, had not allowed her to marry until she turned twenty-one. After arriving in South Africa she travelled to Bloemfonteinwith her husband. On 3 January 1892, s...
Arthur had only amassed a modest sum of capital and it would not bring Mabel an income of more than thirty shillings a week, scarcely sufficient to maintain herself and two children even at the lowest standard of living. In summer of 1896 when Mabel found a house in Sarehole, 5 Gracewell, cheap enough for herself and the children to live independen...
Christianity became an increasingly important part in Mabel Tolkien's life after her husband's death, and at first each Sunday she took the boys on a long walk to a High Anglican church. In May of 1900, Mabel, along with her sister, May Incledon (née Suffield), was accepted into the Catholic Faith. Their family was greatly upset by this. Their fath...
That same year, the family moved to Moseley, conveniently situated on the tram route to Tolkien's new school. A Tolkien uncle who was uncharacteristically well-disposed towards Mabel paid the fees, which then amounted to twelve pounds per annum. But Mabel, still not satisfied, moved the family again, to Edgbaston, where they found a house near the ...
During the New Year of 1904, Ronald and Hilary were confined to bed with measles followed by whooping- cough, and in Hilary's case by pneumonia. The additional strain of nursing them was difficult for their mother, and as she feared it proved 'impossible to go on'. By April 1904 she was in a hospital, and her condition was diagnosed as diabetes. In...
Aug 23, 2024 · 1904. April: Mabel Tolkien is hospitalized with diabetes. Tolkien is sent to live with his aunt Jane Neave. June: Mabel Tolkien partially recovers and goes, with her sons, to Rednal in Worcestershire to convalesce. 14 November: Tolkien's mother dies after a relapse.
Aug 10, 2020 · John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, on January 3, 1892. His family would move to Birmingham, England, in 1896 after his father died, and Tolkien's mother would...
Mabel Tolkien (née Suffield; 1870 – 14 November 1904) was the mother of J. R. R. Tolkien. Her parents, John Suffield and Emily Jane Sparrow, lived in Stirling Road, Birmingham and owned a shop in the city centre. The Suffield family had a business in a building called Lamb House since 1812.
Oct 9, 2024 · Unfortunately, his mother's health began to deteriorate again and she died on 14 November after six days in a diabetic coma leaving the 10 and 12 year old, Hilary and Ronald. [8] During his subsequent orphanhood, he was under the guardianship of Francis Xavier Morgan of the Birmingham Oratory .
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