Alice Edge of Nantwich

[hanes teulu]

The 1921 Census sheet before Ernest  and Margaret Turner at "Woodside, Highgate" carries the address "102 Highgate". The sheet after their record carries the address "Woodside, 104 Highgate".

[KGarrad]

I tried to order a digital birth record of Alice Edge (and KGarrad, I know your info is correct, because I had already found the same), but it returned ‘No Matching Results Found’. Bizarre.

On the GRO site, search the Birth Indexes, and click the button next to the relevant entry.
3 options appear (in blue): Certificate, PDF, Digital Image

I just entered 1889 as the year, and then Edge as Surname, Alice as Forename, and Female as Sex.
5 entries appeared, including your Alice.

[hanes teulu]

I also took a walk on Streetview and a flight on Google Earth.

https://maps.nls.uk/view/210655711#zoom=4.5&lat=3509&lon=4611&layers=BT

[Fecamp]

Hello!

I am very interested in the Nantwich Chronicle report of her death, but I couldn’t find the article. I had visited Auntie Alice in Pratchett’s Row with my mother a couple of times. I remember her being bedridden, and hers was the first funeral I ever went to.

It is interesting that she made a will, and that Vera Farrington was the beneficiary. (Was there any mention of the paintings? They went to her sister, Jane – my grandmother.) I also remember my parents being friendly with a Farrington family in South Crofts, Nantwich.

One of the Farringtons – I think his name was Robert – used to take me and his nephew (I believe), Martin, to football matches at Crewe Alexandra. This would be around 1968.

I am also intrigued to learn that Alice – who never married – had a child by Herbert Illingsworth when she was 20/21. Did Robert Harold survive? Did Alice bring him up? I notice he didn’t travel to Australia with his father …

[Millmoor]

Here is a link to the article about the funeral of Alice Edge. It is  the first article and is titled "Funeral of Miss A Edge". You would need to register  with the British Newspaper Archive to read it in full.

( I found it by searching for Alice Edge and then using the filters to narrow the search down to 13 Jan 1966).

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1966-01-13/1966-01-13?basicsearch=alice%20edge&somesearch=alice%20edge&retrievecountrycounts=false

William

[DCB]

One of the trees seems to be by a descendant of Robert Harold Edge.

However, it doesn't have any details about Alice, except for her approximate birth and the 1891-1911 censuses.

It sounds as though Alice may have been a supposed ancestor.

As mentioned by maddys52, his baptism gives his mother as Sarah Edge.

In 1921, Robert was visiting a George Hewitt in Bunbury and stated that his father was dead.

[Fecamp]

Thanks!!

'In 1921, Robert was visiting a George Hewitt in Bunbury and stated that his father was dead.'

A really interesting comment. Where was this from?

[DCB]

It was the 1921 census.

In 1911, the probable Sarah was with her parents, Thomas and Mary, in Bunbury.

[hanes teulu]

Electoral Registers

In 1929 she is with Benjamin at 34 Heaton Grove

Thanks HT, I had been trying to find the house number for Roselea. Here is the 1958/1971 large scale map showing the location.

https://maps.nls.uk/view/210656314#zoom=4.9&lat=6856&lon=3573&layers=BT

AB - re. the map - how did the postman manage his route? The house numbers don't conform in any way to the natural flow of things. Reminds me of being on the post as a student many years ago (pre postcodes) and the sorter back at the office had it in "delivery" order rather than in house no. order.