Edith Louisa Whitton

  Notes:

Edith L on '01 census, rest from finding marriage.

1901 Census (age 31) living at 5 High Street, Towcester, Northants with husband, 3 children and 3 servants.

1911 Census; Info from Liz Hacking ; they are living at The Hollies, Lower Street, Tettenhall, Wolvs (which is no longer there) ; now flats.

1921 Census; Living as 'wife' (age 50y,.7m) at The Hollies, Lower Street, Tettenhall, Wolvs with husband, son, dau and 2 x servants. Occupying 11 rooms.

Liz also reports that her "house (Stockwell End House, just down the road from The Hollies) was bought by the Phipps' in 1922. After Richard died in 1935 Edith carried on living here - she is listed in Kelly's Directory of Stafford (1936) - but sold the house in 1938. At some point she took the bottom part of what was then the grounds to the house and built herself a house, Woodstock (23 Lothians Road). She is listed in the 1940 version of the same directory as living there."

Edith married Richard Percy Phipps, son of Edward Phipps and Mary Elizabeth Sargeant, Q1 1896 in Towcester, Northants. (Richard Percy Phipps was born in 1865 in Preston Deanery, Peterborough, Northants and died in 1935.)