Birth: 25 July 1901 38 Pleasant Place, Holy Trinity, Margate, Kent, UK
Father: William John Akhurst 1902-1939
Mother: Dorothy Lilian Thorne 1904-1934
Christening: 13 October 1901 at St. John the Baptist, Margate, Kent
Marriage: October-December 1945 Thanet, Kent, UK
Husband: Herbert Alfred Gurr 1905-1963
Death: April 1990 Thanet, Kent, UK
Eileen Marjorie Gurr [Head] 1927-1998
Dennis Arthur Gurr 1931-2016
Audrey J Gurr 1936-1939
Mavis Jean Gurr [Avolio] 1938-2013
Beryl Edith Gurr [Coe, Houghton] 1941-2019
Birth of Edith May Akhurst in FreeBMD in July-September 1901 in Thanet (2a 1018). Her parents were living at 38 Pleasant Place, Holy Trinity, Margate, Kent, UK from the 1901 census.
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Edith May Akhurst christened on 13 October 1901 at St. John the Baptist, Margate, Kent, parents William John and Florence Jessie Akhurst.
Her five brothers and sisters were born in Margate from 1902 to 1910.
In the 1911 census as Edith May Akhurst aged 9, born in Margate, Kent, and living with her parents (William John and Florence Jessie), three brothers (Arthur Albert and Thomas James Sindair and Willliam John) and two sisters (Florence Elsie and Violet Ethel) in four rooms at 11 Fairlight Glen, College Road, Margate, Kent.
Her brother was born in Margate in 1913.
Marriage of Edith M Akhurst and Herbert A Gurr in FreeBMD in April-June 1926 in Thanet (2a 2498).
Her five children were born in Thanet from 1927 to 1941.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Edith M Garr (sic - in the index, Gurr on the original) born 25 July 1901, married, and living with Herbert A Garr (husband?), Eileen M Garr (daughter?) and two others (son and daughter?) at 64 Addiscombe Road, Margate, Kent.
Her husband died in Thanet in 1963.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Edith May Gurr, born 25 July 1901, in April 1990 in Thanet (16 1647).
There are fourteen entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Edith May Akhurst.
Edith May Akhurst was the grandneice of Sarah Jane Gill, wife of my great grandfather George William Payne.
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