Birth: 11 March 1907 Walton on Thames, Surrey, UK
Father: Bernard Raynsford 1886-1908
Mother: Clara Ann (Annie) Mullard [Smithers] 1887-1933
Christening: 7 July 1907 Haslemere, Surrey, UK
Marriage: 21 September 1929 St Peter, Ardingly, West Sussex, UK
Husband: Percy Richard Holman 1897-1952
Death: January 2002 North Yorkshire, UK
Dennis Walter Holman 1942-1992
Birth of Edith May Raynsford in FreeBMD in April-June 1907 in Chertsey (2a 47).
Christening of Edith May Raynsford in the IGI on 7 July 1907 in Haslemere, Surrey, parents Bernard and Clara Ann Raynsford.
Her father died in Hambledon in 1908.
In the 1911 census as Edith May Raynsford aged 4, born in Watton-on-Thames (sic), and living with her grandparents (George and Eliza Raynsford), widowed mother (Clara Ann), aunt (Edith Lilian) and a boarder (Albert Barfoot aged 29, born in Froxfield, Hampshire single and a platelayer working for a railway company) in five rooms in Grayswood Lane, Witley, Haslemere, Surrey.
Her mother married Arthur Smithers in Hambledon in 1913.
Marriage of Edith M Raynsford and Percy R Holman in FreeBMD in July-September 1929 in Cuckfield (2b 375).
Entry in Sussex OPC for the marriage of Edith May Raynsford, a spinster of Ardingly, father Bernard Raynsford, a platelayer (deceased), and Percy Richard Holman aged 22, single of Ardingly and a grocer's assistant, father Thomas Holman, a sawyer, on 21 September 1929 at St Peter, Ardingly, witnessed by A Holman and A Smithers.
Her son was born in Cuckfield in 1932.
Her husband died in Cuckfield in 1952.
There are nine entries in Ancestry British Phone Books, 1880-1984 for E M Holman address 1 Compton Villas number Ardingly 600 in 1975, 2 High Street in 1976, number changing to 892600 in 1978, and 26 Kent Road North number Harrogate 501885 in 1979 to 1982.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Edith May Holman, born on 11 March 1907, in January 2002 in North Yorkshire (B9 6501B 281).
There is an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for the birth of Edith May Raynsford in 1907 in Walton on Thames, Surrey, parents Bernard Raynsford and Clara Ann Mullard. Another entry adds her marriage to Percy Richard Holman on 21 September 1929 in Ardingly, Sussex, and her son. Another gives the marriage in St Peter's, Ardingly.
Entry in 192.com for Edith May Holman living in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG1, and for Edith Holman in the Electoral Roll 2002 living in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG2.
Entry in Director Check for Mrs Edith May Holman born in 1907, address 26 Kent Road North, Harrogate North Yorkshire, HG1 2EX director of Kent Wood Close Maintenance Ltd, The Laurels, 2 St Leonard Road, Harrogate HG2 8NX 9 February 1992 to 8 May 1998.
Edith May Raynsford was the daughter of Clara Ann Mullard, wife of Arthur Smithers, my tenth cousin once removed.
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