Mary Fawler Maude

MAUDE, Mary Fawler (née Hooper). b. Bloomsbury, London, 25 October 1819; d. Overton-on-Dee, Flintshire, 30 July 1913. She married the Revd Joseph Maude in 1841. In that year he became curate of St Thomas’, Newport, Isle of Wight, where Mary taught in the Girls’ Sunday School. In 1852 he became vicar of Chirk, near Ruabon, and Honorary Canon of St Asaph. As a widow, she stayed in North Wales until her death. She published Twelve Letters on Confirmation ‘by a Sunday School Teacher’ (1848), which began with the hymn by which she is remembered, ‘Thine for ever! God of...