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The Edge family, Millstone Lane, Nantwich.
My grandmother was Jane Edge, and I inherited two paintings from my great aunt Alice Edge.
However, three others that had a presence in my life were ‘Auntie Nellie’, ‘Uncle Walter’, and ‘Uncle Joe’, who emigrated to Enterprise, Ontario, Canada (when or why - I don't know). They visited Nantwich almost every year, and I visited them in 1977.
I have found Census and Baptism Records for Walter (1905) and Joe (1907) – parents Joseph (c1876) and Elizabeth (c1880) - but nothing, as yet, for Nellie, whom I’d always assumed, was their sister.
Can anybody help?
Thank you.
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Is this Nellie? I think she is living with the family including brothers Joseph and Walter in 1921
EDGE, ELLEN mmn EVANSON
GRO Ref 1919 M Qrtr NANTWICH Vol 08A Page 429
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Found this baptism
Ellen Edge
Baptism 2 Apr 1919 Nantwich, St. Mary, England
Father Joseph Edge - Tanyard Labourer
Mother Elizabeth Ellen Edge
65 Millstone Lane
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In 1921, Ellen, Joseph and Walter were with their mother, Elizabeth Ellen, at 65, Millstone Lane, Nantwich.
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However, three others that had a presence in my life were ‘Auntie Nellie’, ‘Uncle Walter’, and ‘Uncle Joe’, who emigrated to Enterprise, Ontario, Canada (when or why - I don't know).
Can anybody help?
Thank you.
Elizabeth Edge, age 50, Walter Edge aged 25 and Ellen Edge aged 11 sailed 8 Jul 1930 from Liverpool on the Duchess of Richmond for Quebec. Elizabeth "housekeeper", Walter "Domestic", Ellen "scholar"
Address - 68 (sic) Millstone Lane
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Joseph Edge, age 20 sailed from Liverpool 6 May 1927 for Quebec on the Aurania.
Address 65 Millstone Lane, occp'n Miner
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Hello
The rest of the family followed 11th July 1930 Canadian Pacific -Duchess of Richmond
Elizabeth 50 65 Millstone lane Nantwich housekeepr
Walter 25 domestic
Ellen 11
The incomeing records in Canada say Walter was a farm hand
relative in England brother/uncle Joseph Green 60 Lunt Avenue Crewe (born Evanson and Elizabeth's brother).
They are joining in Canada Walter Edge Senior c/o Kenneth L Weese Centreville Ontario.
Which is weird because I can't see a Walter Edge senior.
Elizabeth died at Enterprise 7th Dec 1936 .DOB 31st Aug 1880 prts William and Elizabeth Evanson
Inf son Walter Edge. (Actually William Evanson and Charlotte Green so perhaps Walter didn't know).
myocarditus ,infected gall bladder and choliceptus?
Supposedly buried Fainworth Ontatrio but I can't see it on Find a grave.
Hope that helps
Sorry just realised someone had already given you the passenger details.
Ciderdrinker
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Hello Ciderdrinker,
Thank you so much for your research, but could I ask you to clarify a couple of things for me?
So, Walter (c.1905) emigrated as a farmhand and he had an uncle, Joseph Green, from 60 Lunt Avenue, Crewe (or was he 60 years old?) He was born Evanson but is now Green – which possibly ties into the Charlotte Green story.
The family was going to Canada where a Walter Edge (Senior) already lived, but you can find no record of a Walter Edge (Senior) in the Nantwich family.
The parents of Elizabeth Edge 1880 were William and Elizabeth Evanson. Walter (Senior) was their infant son, therefore the brother of Elizabeth (1880). His father was William Evanson, but his mother was Charlotte Green (second wife?). On his death, he was possibly buried in Fainworth, Ontario.
Thank you so much for your fascinating research. This has led me on to a new branch of the family and gives depth to the ‘Canadian’ emigration. A clarification would be really valuable to me.
Neil
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... and thank you all, Kay99, DCB and hanes teulu for your valuable responses. It has truly opened up a new area in my family research.
Neil
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Joseph Edge married Elizabeth Evenson/Evanson 1900 registered Nantwich.
Children - all registered Nantwich mother's maiden name Evenson/Evanson
Edward 1902 - Evenson died 1905 age 3
Walter 1905 - Evanson
Joseph 1907 - Evenson
Arthur 1909 - Evanson died 1909
Herbert 1911 - Evanson died 1911
Ellen 1919 - Evanson
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1911 Elizabeth states married 10 years 4 children 2 living 2 deceased.
Joseph Edge (husband of Elizabeth) died 1921 registered Nantwich age 44
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William Evinson (sp) married Charlotte Green 1876 registered Nantwich.
Children
John
Elizabeth*
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Joseph was born before marriage and is registered as Joseph Green 1875 -Whitchurch
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1881 Census Whitchurch Shropshire
William Green 66
Ellen Green 66
Charlotte Evanson 28 Annuitant
Joseph Evanson 6 (born Green) grandson
John Evanson 4 grandson
Elizabeth Evanson 1 * grand daughter
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1891 Census
Ellen Green 75
Lizzie Evanson 11* born Whitchurch grand daughter.
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Elizabeth Ellen Evanson *baptised 5 October 1879 daughter of William and Charlotte Evanson, Whitchurch, Shropshire
Transcription only -ancestry
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Charlotte Evanson married 2nd Richard Summerwell 28 December 1884 at Whitchurch
1891 Census
Richard Summerwell 26
Charlotte 37
Joseph Green 15 Stepson
plus, William 6 , George 4 and Richard 2 surname Summerwell.
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William Evanson died 1881 age 29 death registered Market Drayton Shropshire.
First husband of Charlotte nee Green. Possibly???
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There is also William Evanson burial 13 May 1879 Cheshire no age given.
GRO Index if the same man he was 42.
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Thank you amondg – some great information that really does fill in a number of gaps, and correct a couple of possible errors. (For some reason, I had William Evanson (1852), married to an Elizabeth before Charlotte Green(?)).
Also fascinating that the Edge children of Millstone Lane were registered under their mother’s maiden name. (I wonder why?)
In life, I know that Joe, Walter, and Nellie were always Edge, and would, I assume, have been buried as such.
I visited their farm in August/September 1977 – even then, it was like a step into the past.
Walter, I believe, was still working at the penitentiary in Toronto (‘Trauna’, as he pronounced it), Joe spent his time trapping beavers and keeping them in his freezer (for their fur, I guess), and Nellie took me to the church where she was going to leave her money, and have a stained-glass window made in her name.
Some years ago, I traced their final resting place to the Lennox and Addington Cemetery, but was never able to ascertain when they died.
I wonder if anyone can help?
Thank you.
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Sorry I confused you.
The children were registered under the name EDGE, I listed how the mother's maiden name was spelled in the GRO Index. Various spellings.
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Contact the Cemetery, they should have a record of interments
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Ancestry.
The Kingston Whig Standard dated 13 October 1993
Ellen Edge died 11 October 1993 age 75.
Parents Joseph and Elizabeth Edge
Relatives Walter and Joseph (her brothers)
Residence Napanee
I don't have a subscription to Newspapers.com so I cannot read the full article