Hello and thanks everyone,
I will try to explain, and not confuse anyone - including myself!!
t mo - I am not sure this is the right person, but it is confusing! I have Ann Elizabeth born woolton, and married in 1883 to Edwin Newby in St Michael's, Garson (I have a copy of the parish register and she is aged 19, her father is James). I know they had one son Edwin James Miles in 1884 (he died in 1965 in Garston) he was my great grandfather; he married Sarah Ellen Collins in either 1910 - I remember her very well as their daughter is my grandmother and I lived with them as a child.
The Edwin Newby you refer to in Aston Street is Edwin JM's father - he was step son to James Pye; his step sister Emma Pye was was a witness at his wedding, as he was to hers on the same day. The Edwin I'm looking for was not born in 1881, so it can't be him.
The details you give though do tie in with what I've found later on. On the 1901 census Ann Elizabeth is living in Woolton with a John Barnabas, named as his wife, but they aren't married. All the Newby children on there are:
Archibald born 1893
Oswold Charles born 1891
Elizabeth Agnes born 1889 died 1889
Mary Catherine born 1897
Benjamin born 1896
Charlotte born 1899
No mention of a Willie E, he would be 14 then.
Edwin James Miles is at an army barracks in Warrington.
Thanks Mo, that's useful. I wonder if he died at sea if he was a mariner. Garstonite can't find a death for him either, and I don't know where else to look for him.
Thanks again everyone. If you do find anything you think is useful I would be very happy to know it.
Sandra