Birth: July-September 1869 Plymouth, Devon, UK
Father: Frederick William Bourne c1831-1905
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
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 and living with William Balkwill (husband?), Frederic Alan Balkwill (son) and Helen Grace (daughter?) in Willesden, Middlesex.
Her husband died in Willesden in 1930.
Death of Edith R Luke in FreeBMD in October-December 1948 aged 79 in Hendon (5e 450).
Edith Rosa Bourne was the daughter of Frederick William Bourne, husband of Adelaide Chalcraft, my fifth cousin three times removed.
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