Mary Ann SHORT was born on the 10 June 1878 in Lytchett Matravers Dorset and baptised on the 28 July 1878. (daughter of Frederick Charles SHORT and Jemima Ann BENNETT).

She married her first husband in March 1896 in Lytchett Matravers Dorset and her second husband 12 December 1909, in Parish Church Lytchett Matravers Dorset.

Her third husband she married in 1923 Wareham Registry Office, Dorset

This is a picture of Mary Ann and her daughter Ada.    

2. Charles BATT, married 11 April 1896 in Lytchett Matravers, Dorset, b. 1873 in Milborne St Andrew, Dorset, (son of Henry BATT and Tamsley ?) baptized 12 Oct 1873 in Milborne Stileham, Dorset, d. 1904 - 1909, buried in ?Bere Regis, resided 1881 in Little London Street, Milborne St Andrew, Dorset, resided 1891 in no2 Bagber Cottages, Milton Abbas, Dorset, resided 1898 in Organ Ford, Dorset, resided 1900 in Sherford, Dorset, resided 1901 in Organford, Lytchett Minster, Dorset, occupation Labourer, occupation 1891 Dairyman, occupation 1901 Carter on Farm.  

         2. William Edward James BURBIDGE, also known as James, married 12 Dec 1909 in Parish Church Lytchett Matravers Dorset, b. 4 Mar 1867 in Springbourne Holdenhurst Hants, (son of William BURBIDGE and Rachel Fanny Matilda RABBETTS) baptized 29 Sep 1867 in Sturminster Marshall Dorset, d. 7 Jan 1917 in Hopmans Cottage, Lytchett Matravers, Dorset, buried 9 Jan 1917 in Lytchett Matravers Church,  Dorset, resided 1871 in Holdenhurst, Dorset, resided 1881 in Lytchett Matravers, Dorset, resided 1893 in West Fordington, Dorset, resided 1909 in Lytchett Matravers, Dorset, resided 1901 in Dorchester Depot Barracks, St Martins Road, Dorchester, occupation Woodman, occupation 1901 Sergeant Dorset Regiment, occupation 1909 Brickmaker, occupation 1913 Brickmaker, occupation 1915 Sgt Dorset Regiment.

3. Christopher J SMITH, married 0 Dec 1923 in Wareham Registry Office, Dorset, d. c1960, buried in Sopley Cemetery Hampshire..

         Mary died 7 Jul 1945, Christchurch, Hampshire.  Mary Ann was born in Lytchett Matravers and lived there with here first husband Charles Batt until his death.  She then married William James Edward Burbidge shortly after his first wife’s death.  They continued to live in a cottage called "Rats Castle" Lytchett Matravers, where their children were born. William was a soldier in the Dorset Regiment.  He died in 1917 of heart problems. Mary moved to Poole some time after William’s death. Mary Ann Burbidge was listed on the Poole St Index 1918-1920 residing at 6 West Street Poole. Olive Cutler (nee Burbidge) describes playing on the spiral steps of the Customs House Poole when they were very young. Sometime around 1919 they moved to Bloxworth in Dorset. Mary's granddaughter, Dora Batt was born there c1921. About 1923 Mary married Christopher Smith, who took the family to live in Ripley. They lived in a house next to the school. Mary's stepdaughter Ethel Matilda married from here in 1924. The family then moved to Sopley. Eventually moving to Christchurch in 1938 where she lived till her death in 1945.  

Last updated October 2004

                      Children:

                      i      Walter BATT b. c1898, d. c1976. Verger of Christchurch Priory

                      ii     Wynifred A BATT b. c1900, d. 1938.

                      iii     Herbert Frank BATT b. c1904, d. 1978.

                      iv    Olive Rose Mary BURBIDGE b. 21 Jul 1911.

                      v     Ada Tabitha Kate BURBIDGE b. 19 Sep 1913, d. 1997.

                      vi    Frederick Walter BURBIDGE b. 10 Jun 1915, d. 1981.