My Godmother

[stockdove]

Elsie Burton worked as a teacher in Manchester, in the Miles Platting area I believe, during 1930s. She and some of her pupils were evacuated to Hulland in Derbyshire and she was billeted with my grandmother. Elsie became a family friend and always stayed with us during the summer holidays after the war and into the 1950s. Her home was in Levenshulme. Does anyone have any information about her? I realise how little I really knew of her.

[CaroleW]

Hi

Can you clarify exactly what type of info you are looking for?  Her teaching career or her private life?

Roughly how old was she when you knew her.   Do you know which school she taught at or what age pupils (primary or junior)

Did she have any other christian names apart from Elsie

There are no documents online apart from a possible birth/death registration so you are really dependant on somebody with personal knowledge of her seeing this post

[carol8353]

Was she a married lady- or was Burton her birth name?

[stockdove]

Elsie was a spinster. She was still teaching after the war and probably into the mid to late 50s. She retired to Greenodd near Ulverston and died in the early 1970s where I do not know.

[CaroleW]

Probably her death reg

Elsie Burton born 16th September 1896 aged 82 March qtr 1979  Ulverston 1   0741

There are 2 Elsie Burtons of the same age on the 1901 census - one b Salford and this entry b Levenshulme

29 Osborne Rd Levenshulme

William A Burton 39 b Gorton - calico printers salesman
Hannah J   33 b Gorton
Elsie   4 b Levenshulme
RG13 Piece 3691 Folio 137 Page 8

She is an only child from later census entry

Parents married in 1893 - William Arthur Burton and Hannah Jane Wood

[stockdove]

Hi Marquessate
Thanks for the prompt reply... very helpful. It sounds as though you have found her, I'm most grateful for your help.