![]() ![]() At this point Father Francis took over, and made sure of the boys' material as well as spiritual welfare, although in the short term they were boarded with an unsympathetic aunt-by-marriage, Beatrice Suffield, and then with a Mrs Faulkner. ![]() She died on 15 October of that year leaving the two orphaned boys effectively destitute. In 1904 Mabel Tolkien was diagnosed as having diabetes, incurable at that time. The parish priest who visited the family regularly was the half-Spanish half-Welsh Father Francis Morgan. ![]() From then on, both Ronald and Hilary were brought up in the faith of Pio Nono, and remained devout Catholics throughout their lives. ![]() Mabel and her children became estranged from both sides of the family in 1900 when she was received into the Roman Catholic Church. Then they moved to the Birmingham suburb of Edgbaston. In 1904 Tolkien's mother died, and the young John Ronald Reuel moved with his brother Hilary to his aunt's home in England (the West Midlands). Tolkien lost his father when he was very young. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born of British parents in Bloemfontein, South Africa in January of 1892, but moved with his mother, Mabel Tolkien, to England, at the age of three. ![]()
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