Steele Family

George Steel married Mary Ann Gardner in Ipswich at the age of twenty-seven. Mary Ann and George lived in Ipswich where George worked at the mines. By 1913 the family had moved to Rosewood and then to Ipswich in 1916. He moved his house from Rosewood to Station Road in Booval.

Mary Ann was born on 9 October 1847 at Lowgates, Stavely in Derbyshire. The manifest of the 'Norman Morrison' listed Mary Ann's occupation as a servant. She was the only child of Richard Gardner and his first wife.

Mary Ann and George had eleven children, six were born in either Ipswich or Rosewood before 1872 when George selected land at Glamorganvale. Mary Ann died from a stroke which occurred at the railway station on 25 March 1920 at the age of seventy-four. She was buried in the Ipswich General Cemetery.