Birth: 15 November 1904 Goldsborough, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Father: Unknown
Mother: Emma Gertrude Abbey [Kelly, Lister] 1882-1966
Marriage: 15 Augustr 1925 Bradford, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Husband: Lawrence Hollingsworth 1902-1966
Death: 5 August 1974 1 Worthing Head Road, Wyke, West Yorkshire, UK
Burial: 9 August 1974 West Yorkshire, UK
Barbara Hollingworth 1925-1925
Robert Henry Hollingworth 1927-2009
Florence Hollingworth 1932-2020
Geoffrey Hollingworth 1934-1993
Marion Hollingworth 1943-2015
Birth of Edith Abbey in FreeBMD in October-December 1904 in Knaresbro' (9A 85).
Her mother married Alfred Lister in Wetherby in 1909.
In the 1911 census as Edith Abbey aged 3 (sic in the index, 6 on the orginal), born in Goldsborough, Yorkshire, and living with her mother (Emma Gertrude Lister), stepfather (Alfred Lister), brother (Arthur Francis), (half)brother (Alfred Lister), three sons of his stepfather (Bertie, Henry Joshia and Norris), and his stepfather's daughter (Ileen) in four rooms at Horse Fair, Wetherby, Yorkshire.
Her stepfather died in Wetherby shortly after the census and her mother married Daniel Joseph Kelly in Bradford in 1917.
In the 1921 census as Edith Abbey born in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, Yorkshire in 1904 and living with Emma S Kelly (mother?), Arthur F Abbey (brother?), Daniel Kelly (stepfather?), Alfred and Herbert Lister (half-brothers?), Kathleen Kelly (half-sister?) and Irene List (half-sister?) in Bradford, Yorkshire (West Riding).
Marriage of Edith Abbey and Lawrence Hollingworth in FreeBMD in July-September 1925 in Bradford (9B 452).
Her first daughter was born in Bradford in 1925, and two sons and a daughter were born in North Bierley from 1927 to 1934.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Edith Hollingworth born 15 November 1905, married, a gill box minder (worsted textile) and living with Lawrence Hollingworth (husband?), Geoffrey Hollingworth (son?) and one other at 6 Worthington Head Road, Bradford, Yorkshire (West Riding). (A gill box is a machine containing gills for drafting and combing fibers or filaments).
Her daughter son was born in Bradford in 1943.
Her husband died in Bradford in 1966.
Death of Edith Hollingworth, born 15 November 1904, in FreeBMD in July-September 1974 in Bradford (4 457).
Entry in Ancestry All Web: UK, Burial and Cremation Index for Edith Hollingworth died 5 August 1974 buried 9 August 1974 in West Yorkshire.
Entry in the Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995 for Edith Hollingworth died 5 August 1974 in Wyke Bradford, probate 9 October 1974 in Leeds. "Hollingworth, Edith of 1 Worthing Head Rd Wyke Bradford died 5 August 1974 Administration Leeds 9 October £3505".
There are thirty one entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Edith Abbey.
Note that Bradford was transfered from the West Riding of Yorkshire to West Yorkshire on 1 April 1974.
Edith Abbey was the second cousin once removed of Thomas Abbey, husband of Ruth Cross, first cousin once removed of Albert Alfred Cross, husband of Florence Violet Luff, my half second cousin once removed.
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