constance mary wade + thomas teare
Constance was born in Hebden Bridge on 30 August 1877 and baptised on 14 November, the only child of John Thomas Wade and his wife Eliza Mallandain. In 1881, she was living with her family at Old Gate in Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire but one year later, Constance’s father died just before her fifth birthday.
Her mother never remarried and they remained in Hebden Bridge for the next twenty years. On 28 November 1903, Constance married Thomas Teare at St James in Hebden Bridge with her grandfather, George Mallandain, acting as one of the witnesses.
Thomas Teare was born in Patrick on the Isle of Man in 1856, the son of Thomas and Isabella Teare. He was a yeoman farmer and his family had farmed near Dalby on the Isle of Man for several generations. After their marriage, Thomas and Constance returned to his family farm at Ballacooil. Their son, Thomas Gerard Mallandain, was born in Dalby on 9 June 1905.
In 1911, Thomas was running the farm at Ballacooil and employed several labourers and a domestic servant. His wife and young son were in Manchester visiting her mother and grandfather at the time, possibly to offer support as her grandfather’s second wife had died only months before the census was taken. One year later, their daughter Sheila Mallandain was born at Dalby.
There are no further records relating to the family until 1924 when nineteen year old Thomas Gerrard married Ada Wilson Matthews at Braddan. The marriage was something of a scandal and the young couple later separated and divorced. The legal separation was reported in the Isle of Man Examiner in 1930:
After an amazing story of how a young couple parted after their secret wedding at Kirk Braddan in July 1924, Deemster LaMothe granted a judicial separation between Ada Wilson Teare, of London, and Thomas Gerard Mallandain Teare, of Douglas.
Thomas Gerard may have pursued the separation and divorce in order to remarry as only two years after the separation was granted, he married Enid Bawden in Willesden, north London.
Thomas died on 17 November 1941 aged 81 years. Constance Wade died in Douglas, Isle of Man on 9 November 1951 and was buried three days later in the Douglas Borough Cemetery at Onchan. Her will was proved in Liverpool on 27 June and her estate valued at £1482 was split between her son and daughter. It is not known if Thomas Gerard returned to Isle of Man following his second marriage but he died in Chessington, Surrey on 20 December 1969. His sister, Sheila, never married but she continued to live on the family farm until her death in the early 1980s.