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Family History Beginners Board / Re: EDLIN family of Leicester, England and NZ
« on: Thursday 11 April 19 17:41 BST (UK)  »
Hi. I'm a descendant of the North Leicestershire Edlins, as explained some years ago on the other (now closed) thread.

We've just discovered another Edlin who almost certainly fits in somewhere; a trades union activist named John Thomas Edlin born 1873, Leicestershire, but living at 86, Robin Hood's Chase, Nottingham in 1927. He was a Labour candidate for Nottingham city council. Earlier he had been organiser for the Ironstone Quarrymen and Blastfurnacemen in Melton Mowbray.

Information from "The Labour Who's Who" 1927 edition.

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One Name Studies: A to G / Re: Edlins in Leics.
« on: Tuesday 25 September 07 00:13 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: midmum on Wednesday 01 March 06 22:36 GMT (UK)
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Have been checking about the name Ebenezer. It is a Hebrew name and mentioned 3 times in the Bible as well as being made famous by Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge. It relates to a stone raised by the prophet Samuel in memory of the defeat of the Philistines, Samuel 7:11-12. Very often it is given a meaning of "stone of help" or a "foundation of stone". There is an Ebenezer society in Germany and numerous chapels so named worldwide. There is also a hymn, "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" which contains the lines "here I raise mine Ebenezer, hither by thy help...".

If I may continue this digression briefly, there is also the wonderful Welsh hymn tune Ebenzer with the unique and haunting triplet rhythm in a minor key. It used to be used for a wonderful hymn beginning "Who is this with garments gory". See http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/w/i/t/witwgory.htm

Rob

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One Name Studies: A to G / Re: EDLINS in Leics.
« on: Friday 07 September 07 23:19 BST (UK)  »
I've now found out from the information kindly supplied. My Grandfather was William Edlin b 1882, youngest son of Thomas Bunney Edlin. He marrried Frances Spencer and they had 2 children, Margaret (m Gordon Atkinson, 4 sons, still living in Willoughby on the Wolds) and my late Father Derek. Quite surprised to find on reading the Leics Edlins how the names of my siblings seem to have been taken from our forbears. We are (in order of birth) Robert William, John David, Margaret Elizabeth, Rosemary Anne and Timothy Mark.

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One Name Studies: A to G / Re: EDLINS in Leics.
« on: Tuesday 04 September 07 23:19 BST (UK)  »
Should have added that Herbert Leeson Edlin was publications officer for the Forestry Commission for many years, hence the large number of popular and specialist forestry books by him. There was another distinguished Edlin from this branch in modern times, a Harold Edlin who was a forensic scientist after the second world war.

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One Name Studies: A to G / Re: EDLINS in Leics.
« on: Tuesday 04 September 07 23:09 BST (UK)  »
I'm a newcomer here, having found the site while googling on Edlins, being one myself and descended somehow from the Leicester branch.

Have found wonderful write up and pics of "the brothers Edward and Thomas Edlin, aged respectively 93 and 86 years" in the Methodist Recorder of October 30th 1902 (page 11). According to the text, Edward was born in Croxton Kerrial on Feb 3rd 1809, and worked on the Duke of Rutland's estate - Belvoir Castle - for 59 years, retiring at 80. He was a prominent Methodist local preacher. No mention of a wife; guess he was a widower, living with "his children, his niece, Mrs Smith, and her husband".

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