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A.Garland Mears was married to Edward Mears a hardware man who was 38 at the time of their marriage at the time, on Monday the 22nd of February of 1864 when she was twenty- one in Christ Church in Hartlepool.Edward Mears was the son of John Mears and Elizabeth Reynalds he was born in 1825 in York,Yorkshire England. A.Garland Mears lived in 22 Lynn Street Hartlepool, Straton Durham with her family and a servant Elizabeth L Hirst. Elizabeth L Hist was then charged with stealing a pair of Ms.Mears stockings 1894, Amelia did not press charges however.

They had three children both who were born in West Hartlepool Durham, Edward Mears (1865 ), Ameila Mary Mears (1867) and Eidth Jane Mears (1869). Edward Mears was then married to Mary Florence Quincey in 1889 and they had 5 sons.Edward was the Rector of St Katherine's Parish, Uttlesford district Essex England 1906-1940 he was also the founder and first warden of St Paul 1910-1940, He died on June the 11th 1947 and was buried in St Katherine's churchyard. Ameilia Mary Mears was a student of science and literature.

Mears moved to Leeds Yorkshire-West Riding. Edwards Mears died in 1868 aged 56, It was in Leeds on the 3rd of January 1920 that Mears died at the age of 77 from Bronchitis senile decay, she is buried in Leeds general cemetery at Woodhouse.