Edie 🤷‍♀️ Smith

[Ladyhawk]

Not that this helps with Ernest but is this Annie's birth & death entry?

Annie Carding
Sep 1916 Chorlton
Mother's Maiden Name:   Edwards
Volume Number:   8c Page Number:   1265

Annie Smith Death Age:   91
Birth Date:   6 Aug 1916
Registration Date:   Mar 2007
Registration District:   Nottingham
Register Number:   B82A
District and Subdistrict:   689/1B
Entry Number:   010

[Annie65115]

This couple features on an Ancestry tree, which gives Ernest's birth as 22 Jan 1909 in Nottingham, and death 18 March 1993 in Carlton, Notts. Unfortunately it gives no further suggestions re Ernest's family but that might be something to work on.

[Ladyhawk]

There is an Annie Smith with dob 6 8 1916 living in Peterborough in 1939 married to an Ernest born 31 Aug 1913

Do you know if Ernest served in the Army?

[Annie65115]

There is an Annie Smith with dob 6 8 1916 living in Peterborough in 1939 married to an Ernest born 31 Aug 1913

That date for Annie's birth ties in with the ancestry tree I mentioned, although the one for Ernest doesn't

[heywood]

1913 July - September

Ernest Smith mmn Edwards  - Salford (perhaps mentioned before)

Ernest Smith mmn Mason Nottingham

[Annie65115]

There are 4 Ernest Smith births in Nottingham in 1913, but without even being sure that that's where he was born, it will be a search for a Smith in a haystack of Smiths.

There are 3 deaths for Ernest Smith in Nottingham in 1993 (this assumes that the ancestry tree is correct), with yob between 1909 - 1913 (all of which are subject to informant error):
SMITH, ERNEST        1913 
GRO Reference:  DOR  Q1/1993 in NOTTINGHAM  (6891E)  Reg E52A  Entry Number 194

SMITH, ERNEST        1912 
GRO Reference:  DOR  Q1/1993 in NOTTINGHAM  (6891D)  Reg D52A  Entry Number 116

SMITH, ERNEST        1909 
GRO Reference:  DOR  Q1/1993 in NOTTINGHAM  (6891A)  Reg A54A  Entry Number 152

I think the best way forwards is for the OP to read this thread, and see if one of those Smith/Carding births might be her father. If that looks possible, then get the 1937 marriage cert to find Ernest's father's name. From there it might not be too difficult to track down Ernest's siblings.

(And remember, Edie might be a shortened version of Edith, a petname, or a middle name ---)

[Ladyhawk]

Annie Carding
Sep 1916 Chorlton
Mother's Maiden Name:   Edwards
Volume Number:   8c Page Number:   1265

Did Annie have a sister named Edie/Edith and was it Ernest sister-in-Law rather than his sister that helped in WW2 

EDITH Carding birth 1919 Chorlton mmn Edwards

[Ladyhawk]

Aha -- might this be the marriage?

Marriages Dec 1937   

Carding    Annie    Smith    Manchester S.    8d   103    

Smith    Ernest    Carding    Manchester S.    8d   103   

For info. from Lancashire BMD their marriage was at
All Saints Gorton,
unfortunately the marriage has not been transcribed on Lancashire OPC

[Annette7]

The Ernest Smith with Annie in 1939 was, as stated earlier, born 31/8/1913 and he died in March 1993 in Nottingham with wife Annie born 6/8/1916 dying March 2007 Nottingham so proof that the couple located in 1939 at Peterborough did indeed move on to Nottingham.

Annette