Mary Ann Craven (neé Hick) was a confectioner and business woman in York in the late-nineteenth century.
Retirement and death
“After twenty years of unaided effort an reponsibility, she handed over the active management to her only son, but for another twenty years she continued to exercise supervision as a sleeping partner, until at the age of seventy-one on the 31st July, 1900, about six months before the death of Queen Victoria…”2
Directory listings
White’s, 1867 – Mary Ann Craven, Confectioner at 47 Coney Street, 31 Pavement, and Coppergate.
1.
Knight CB. M. A. Craven & Son Limited: History of the Company. Unpublished; 1948:9.
2.
Knight CB. M. A. Craven & Son Limited: History of the Company. Unpublished; 1948:9.