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Hi Ladyhawk. Following your possible lead about Edith marrying again. I got the marriage certificate this morning. Edith is once again being coy in her declarations. She describes herself as a spinster living at the same address as her bridegroom and dosesn't name her father or his occupation. This blinking woman is as illusive as a ghost.

Hi Ladyhawk. I've started down your research path and have ordered the Donaghue/Ayres marriage certificate. Let's see what that turns up.

Hi Brigidmac. My tree is on Ancestry and it certainly includes Edith's children, including my father. Elizabeth was born in Camelford to James Cocks. I think you're trying to make this even more complicated than it actually is. My task is to find where my grandmother was after her marriage and when she died.
 

Edith's birth registration refers to the mother as Elizabeth Ann Cocks, formerly Coomber. Cocks was her maiden name. By 1901 Jethro Coomber was lodging in Sussex (the area in which he was born) and died in the local workhouse in 1917.
I've been working on my tree for twenty years now and for a long time named Jethro as my g/grandfather but I recently decided this was questionable.
Elizabeth named the father of Edith as Charles Cocks.
Throughout her life Edith interchanged her surname between Coomber and Cocks.

I did think that Edith's third child, Thomas William Henry Coomber, was only five when she married and hadn't been left with the Edward's, as the other two were, but I can't find him in the 1921 census either. It sweet that it's harder to come forward than it is to go back in time.