Edith Annie Piddington

c1890-1895

Edith was born c1890, in Newbury, Berkshire, the daughter of Sarah Kate Piddington. She was baptised on the 25^th February 1890, at St Nicolas Church Newbury. The baptism record records her mother as Kate Piddington, a single woman, living in Craven Court, Newbury.

When Edith was about seven weeks old, she was placed in the care of Joseph and Sarah Davis. (Joseph and Sarah’s daughter Bertha Mary Davis married William John Piddington in 1885. William John was Sarah Kate’s brother).

The 1891 census records Edith, aged 1, living in Greenham, Berkshire, with Sarah and Joseph Davis and their son Charles Davis.

By 1895 Joseph, Sarah and Edith Annie, were living in West Mills, Newbury.

On Monday the 27^th May 1895 Edith Annie was playing with some other children in West Mills. When it was time to go in for tea, Edith was nowhere to be found. Fears grew that she had fallen into canal and at eight o’clock, her hat was discovered floating in the water. Her body was discovered sixteen days later (12^th June).

 Edith Annie was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 22^nd June 1895.

Edith’s family:

Her mother Sarah Kate (aka Kate) was born in 1871, in Newbury, Berkshire, the daughter of Amos (a Carpenter) and Anne Piddington (nee Adams) who were married in 1866 (marriage registered in Newbury).

Sarah Kate’s siblings were:

William John 1866

Ellen c1870

Isabella Annie c1873

Emily Clara 1874 (died aged 19 months in 1875, buried in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 7^th December)

Clara c1878 (died aged 11 days, buried on the 19^th March at St Mary the Virgin Speen)

The 1881 census records Sarah Kate (9) living in Backway, Speenhamland, Berkshire, with her father Amos (41), a Carpenter, her mother Anne (35), her brother William John (14) and her sisters Ellen (11) and Isabella (8).

In 1891 Sarah (19) (recorded as Kate) was working as a Servant in Islington, Middlesex, for a George Ridout (36) and his family.

Sarah Kate married Albert Edgar Brazier on the 2^nd April 1898 in North Cray, Kent

They had the following children:

Edith Florence born 1898 in Bromley

Henry Frederick 1899 in Dartford

Albert Edgar 1900 in Dartford

Mabel Winifred c1904 in Dartford (died 1904)

Albert Edgar Brazier died aged 69 in 1946 in Dartford

Sarah Kate Brazier died aged 80 in 1955 in Dartford.

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