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She continued to live with Engels after Mary's death, and married him on 11 September 1878, shortly before her own death. [ 9 ] They had a half-brother named Thomas, born to their father's second wife after their mother died in 1835.
Nov 4, 2020 · There he met and fell in love with Mary Burns, with whom he covertly lived for the rest of her life.
Aug 1, 2013 · Mary Burns’ younger sister, Lizzie, c.1865. Lizzie lived with Engels after her sister died, and married him a day before she herself died. No image of Mary is known to exist. Public Domain
Burns (ca. 1822-1863), Engels’ common law wife, and then her sister Lydia ‘Lizzie’ Burns (1827-1878), who formally married Engels just before her death.
Oct 24, 2020 · Jenny Farrell writes about Mary and Lizzie Burns. Friedrich Engels, whose 200th birthday falls 28 November 2020, had a very personal connection with Ireland. The moment he set foot in Manchester, in 1843, sent by his father to help run the family textile factory, he met the then 20-year-old Mary Burns, daughter of an Irish dyer, and herself a ...
- Jenny Farrell
Feb 3, 2016 · Lizzie Burns, an illiterate Irish woman who married Engels shortly before her death. Arminta Wallace. Wed Feb 03 2016 - 10:00. Four words in a newspaper review of a 400-page biography. That was...
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(Mary's relationship with Engels could be perceived today as a "partner/girlfriend/common-law wife" - they never married as they did not believe in marriage and our piece simply aims to highlight that they were close and were together a long time.)