Batstone, Mary Ethel (Thynne)
George Batsone
Mary Thynne __John Jack Thynne __ __Mary (Mollie) Gwenllian, John (Jack) George
Mary Ethel (Thynne) Batstone was born on February 27, 1888 in Nicola, BC. She died in Penticton, BC on November 17, 1950. She was the only daughter of the Hudson’s Bay Co. factor in Nicola. Later the family moved to Otter Valley where her parents built a ranch house on the stage route from Princeton to Spence’s Bridge. She started her education at Yale, BC. Later she became one of the first ten pupils of the Misses Gordon whose school in the basement of their home, was a forerunner of Crofton House in Vancouver. She was married George Gilbert Batstone Batstone June 7, 1911 on the Penstowe Ranch in Otter Valley, BC. They moved to One Mile Valley where George Batstone was one of the first freighters in the valley. He hauled the first load of ore from the mines at Princeton. There the couple lived till 1939 when they moved to Penticton. She was survived by her husband George Gilbert Batstone; son Jack Batstone and daughter Mollie (Batstone) Broderick, and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Thynne.
Princeton Our Valley, pages 244, 245; Marriage registration (BC Archives); Death registration (BC Archives)