See also

Margaret Elizabeth Edwards (1878-1950)

Individual Events and Attributes

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • housemaid then a parlourmaid4,5

  • Birth:

  • 28 Jun 1878

  • Rattlesden, Suffolk, England1,4,5,6,7,8

  • Baptism:

  • 1 Sep 1878 (age 0)

  • St. Mary's Church, The Street, Brettenham, Suffolk, England2,9,10

  •  

  • daughter of George Edwards (labourer) and Mary Ann of Rattlesden Fen

  • Census:

  • 3 Apr 1881 (age 2)

  • Rattlesden Fen, Rattlesden, Suffolk, England6

  •  

  • daughter living with her parents George and Mary Ann, brothers George and John, and sisters Emma, Mary Ann, Alice, Rosa and Martha. Born in Rattlesden Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 5 Apr 1891 (age 12)

  • Rattlesden Fen, Rattlesden, Suffolk, England7

  •  

  • daughter as Elizabeth attending school and living with her parents George and Mary Ann, brothers George and John, and sisters Martha and Agnes. Born in Rattlesden Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 31 Mar 1901 (age 22)

  • 41 Oxford Terrace, Paddington, London, England4

  •  

  • unmarried servant working as a housemaid and living with Thomas and Ada Pitfield and family, her sister Alice, and another servant. Born in Rattlesden Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 32)

  • 34 Evelyn Gardens, Kensington, London, England5

  •  

  • an unmarried servant working as a domestic parlourmaid and living in thirteen rooms with Manaton (sic) and Emily Lord and family, four other servants and a governess. Born in Rattlesden Suffolk

  • Census absence:

  • 19 Jun 1921 (age 42)

  •  

  • Census:

  • 29 Sep 1939 (age 61)

  • 166 Ebury Street, Belgravia, London, England8

  •  

  • an unmarried householder living with her incapacitated sister Alice. Born on 28th June 1878

  • Death:

  • 4 Nov 1950 (age 72)

  • St. Lukes Hospital, Sydney Street, Chelsea, London, England3,11

  • Probate:

  • 20 Feb 1951

  • Probate Registry, London, England11

  •  

  • a spinster of 7 Bourne Street Westminster died 4th November 1950 at St. Lukes Hospital Chelsea London S.W.3, probate of effects of £857 10s 3d (~£26,000 in 2017) to Agnes Ellen Searing and Martha Woolford married women

Sources

1.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Stow 1878 quarter:3 volume:4a page:598. Cit. Date: 13 March 2021.

2.

Suffolk Family History Society - Sudbury East Baptisms 1813-1904, (2015 SFK-BPI-04/P1 own copy). Brettenham St. Mary baptisms entry:709. Cit. Date: 13 March 2021.

3.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Chelsea 1950 quarter:4 volume:5c page:325. Cit. Date: 22 October 2023.

4.

England and Wales Census 1901, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG13 piece:13 folio:72 page:24 schedule:115. Cit. Date: 29 March 2022.

5.

England and Wales Census 1911, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG14 piece:118 class:RG78 piece:4 registration district:2 sub-district:1 enumeration district:31 schedule:250. Cit. Date: 29 March 2022.

6.

England and Wales Census 1881, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG11 piece:1848 folio:84 page:6. Cit. Date: 13 March 2021.

7.

England and Wales Census 1891, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG12 piece:1455 folio:75 page:5. Cit. Date: 13 March 2021.

8.

UK 1939 Register, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG101 piece:0634D page:2 line:36 letter code:AYOD. Cit. Date: 22 October 2023.

9.

Cosford Data Base - Internet.

10.

Suffolk Records Office (Lowestoft) - Parish Records. Brettenham St. Mary. Cit. Date: 19 March 2003. Suffolk Record Office (Lowestoft), Suffolk Record Office, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England.

11.

UK Government Probate Service, UK Government Find a Will, (on-line at www.probatesearch.service.gov.uk, www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). London 1951 page:59. Cit. Date: 22 October 2023.