Birth: July-September 1869 Plymouth, Devon, UK
Father: Frederick William Bourne 1830-1905
Mother: Mary Horwill (Horswell) c1838-1873
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: October-December 1892 Lewisham, London, UK
Husband: William Balkwill Luke 1857-1930
Death: October-December 1948 Hendon, Middlesex, UK
Mary Irene Luke 1894-1979
Helen Grace Luke 1896-1977
William Bourne B Luke 1899-1899
Frederick Alan Balkwill Luke 1900-1972
Birth of Edith Rosa Bourne in FreeBMD in July-September 1869 in Plymouth (5b 278).
In the 1871 census as Edith R Bourne aged 1, born in Devon, and living with her parents (Frederick W and Mary), brother (Frederick E), three sisters (Annie E, Kate F and Mary F), a governess (Mary A Perkin aged 35, born in Tavistock, Devon and single), and a servant (Amelia L Hill aged 38, born in Plymouth, Devon and single) at 26 Herbert Street, Hoxton, New Town, Shoreditch, London.
Her mother died in Shoreditch in 1873 and her father married Adelaide Chalcraft in Shoreditch in 1876.
In the 1881 census as Edith R Bourne aged 11, born in Plymouth, Devon, and living with her father (Fredk W) stepmother (Adelaide), brother (Fredk E), three sisters (Annie E and Kate F), aunt (Ann E Bourne), and a servant (Alice Griffin aged 14, and born in Clapham, Surrey) at 14 Belmont Road, Wandsworth, London.
I cannot find her in the 1891 census but she was not living with her father.
Marriage of Edith Rosa Bourne and William Balkwill Luke in FreeBMD in October-December 1892 in Lewisham (1d 1796).
Her three children were born in Willesden in 1894, 1896 and 1900.
In the 1901 census as Edith Luke aged 31, born in Plymouth, Devon, and living with her husband (William), son (Frederick), two daughters (Helen and Mary), a visitor (Kate Pilbeam aged 37, born in St Pancras, London, widowed and a trained monthly nurse), and two servants (Emma Carter aged 16, born in Plaistow, Essex and a nurse, and Ellen James aged 22, born in Torrington, Devon and a general servant, both single) at Leinster Lodge, Leinster Road, Willesden, Middlesex.
In the 1911 census as Edith Rosa Luke aged 40, born in Plymouth, Devon, married for 18 years with four children, one having died, and living with her husband (William Balkwill), son (Frederic Alan Balkwill), daughter (Helen Grace) and a servant (Margaret Langgrith aged 24, born in Germany, single and a domestic housemaid) in nine rooms at 12 Leinster Road, Kilburn N W, Middlesex.
Nine entries in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Edith Rosa Luke address 12 Leinster Road, Kilburn NW6, Harrow in 1924 to 1926, other occupants William Balkwill Luke to 1929, Frederick Alan Balkwill Luke (son?) in 1929, and Helen Grace Luke (daughter?) in 1929.
Her husband died in Willesden General Hospital on 28 September 1930, his residence was 12 Leinster Road, Kilburn, Middlesex, and she was an executor of her his will with effects of £8280 14s. 11d.
Death of Edith R Luke in FreeBMD in October-December 1948 aged 79 in Hendon (5e 450).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966 for Edith Rosa Luke died 1 October 1948 in Middlesex, probate 3 January 1949 in London. "Luke Edith Rosa of Ossulton-way Finchley Middlesex widow died 1 October 1948 Probate 3 January to Helen Grace Luke spinster and Frederick Alan Balkwill Luke public works contractor. Effects £6677 7s 5d."
Edith Rosa Bourne was the daughter of Frederick William Bourne, husband of Adelaide Chalcraft, my fifth cousin three times removed.
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