EDLINS in Leics.

[sdfrog]

hi, (34 Victoria Crescent), have I  found you?

Sue

[midmum]

yes!!! have replied personally.

[Kookie]

My name is Michael Peter Edlin. My father is Edward Cecil Elliot Edlin. My grandfather is Edward Frederic Holberton Edlin and great grandfather is Edward Colsil Edlin.  I believe that Sir Peter Henry Edlin is the brother of Edward Frederic Edlin.  I'm trying to find out if I have any cousins from this line and where they are generally located.  Would appreciate any help and information.

[behindthefrogs]

Hi Kookie,

Welcome to rootschat and our Edlin group.

We have been unable to link this branch of the family into any of our other Edlin lines.  The Coat of Arms used by Sir Peter Edlin is derived from that used in the 15th century by Edlin family in Aldenham Herts and from them by the Edelen branch in the USA.  I contacted the College of Arms some time ago to obtain a copy of the pedigree that supported that grant but they required an extortionate fee.

The indication is that they were part of the Middlesex family rather than the Leics branch.  If you PM me with your email address (click the green scroll to the left of this reply) I can send you more details of this group.

David

[behindthefrogs]

I am confused as to who was the father of Edward Frederick Holberton Edlin.

We previously thought that it was Edward Holberton Edlin born in India in 1840.  This date would be consistent with the latter being the brother of Sir Peter and thus Edward Frederick being Edward Colshill's grandson.

The birth in India however worries me because Edward Colshill and his father Edward seem to have run their New Bond Street toy and library business continuously over the period.

David

[midmum]

Hi Michael,

if you would like to send me a private message I have some information that you will find interesting and some family papers.

Heather

[willowdweller]

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".

[willowdweller]

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.

[behindthefrogs]

Welcome to Rootschat and our Edlin thread.

Edward and Thomas were both widowers.  Edward's wife Susannah Chapman died in April 1885 and Thomas's wife Jane Gray in 1899.

Where do you fit into the family?

If you would like me to send you more details of this branch of the Edlins please send me your email address in a private message (click on the green scroll to the left of this reply)

David