100 Fishponds Road in December 1961

[Skoyen89]

Do you know who her parents were?

Guessing this could be her birth registration

Mar 1878 Cardiff
Sparkes Mary Ann

ancestry links to an Annie Sparkes 23 servant in Surrey for 1901 but there is another Annie about so not sure if she is your Mary Ann

Yes, I think that is her.  I am in the process of sending off for her birth cert (one aborted attempt down!). 

There are a couple of Ann or Annie Sparkes as well on Ancestry that seem to be other people....one is the daughter of a farmer in South Wales.  However both the 1881 and 1891 Surveys which show her living with elderly relatives have Mary Ann Sparkes born in Cardiff and the ages line up with the info in the 1911 Census which we know is her.

I still cannot find her in the 1901 survey so if anyone can I would be very grateful!

[Skoyen89]

The Eastville Workhouse subsequently became a home for the aged, but was demolished in 1972.
All that remains are some parts of the boundary wall and the original entrance pillars which, remarkably, still carry the number '100'.

Thanks for this.  I must get down there when I am next passing Bristol and take a photo.  I'd also like to visit Greenbanks Cemetery where I believe her daughter (my grandmother) is buried. 

[Girl Guide]

I think I've found her in 1901 as Annie Sparkes

Registration district   Kingston
Piece number 669
Folio   103
Page   3

She's a servant in the household of Noel Price born 1873 Weybridge, Surrey

[Skoyen89]

I think I've found her in 1901 as Annie Sparkes

Registration district   Kingston
Piece number 669
Folio   103
Page   3

She's a servant in the household of Noel Price born 1873 Weybridge, Surrey

Yes, that could be her - it seems a really varied geography for the time....born Cardiff, Somerset upbringing, Kingston Surrey to work, back to Penarth to marry and have children then on to Bristol.  And there may be bits we haven't discovered!