Birth: 28 September 1898 Hartfield, East Sussex, UK
Father: Charles John Coleman 1868-1929
Mother: Frances Mary Macnally 1870-1958
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: April-June 1923 Reigate, Surrey, UK
Wife: Elsie Annie Osgood 1901-1941
Marriage: July-September 1944 SE Surrey, UK
Wife: Edith Olive Mitchell [Dixon, Macklem] 1908-1992
Death: July-September 1968 SE Surrey, UK
By Elsie
Jean Iris Coleman [Brown] 1924-2002
Edna May Coleman [Burton (Barton)] 1925-a1956
Enid V Coleman [Cresswell] 1925-a1945
Birth of Eric Charles Coleman in FreeBMD in October-December 1898 in East Grinstead (2B 132a).
Entry in Ancestry West Sussex, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1920 for Eric Charles Coleman baptised 4 December 1898 in Copthorne, Sussex, parents Charles John and Frances Mary Coleman. "Page 92 Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Copthorne in the County of Sussex in the Year One thousand eight hundred and ninety eight [...] 1898 Dec. 4 No. 736 Eric Charles [parents] Charles John [a] Farmer & Frances Mary Coleman [of] Worth.
In the 1901 census as Erie (sic - in the index, Eric on the original) C Coleman aged 2, born in Hartfield, Sussex, and living with his parents (Charles John and Frances M), sister (Ivy Vera), and grandparants (Charles and Martha Coleman) at Wakeham's Green, Worth, Sussex.
In the 1911 census as Eric Charles Coleman aged 12, born in Hartfield, Sussex, and living with his parents (Charles John and Frances Mary), sister (Ivy Vera), grandmother (Martha Coleman) and a neice (Bessie Martin) in six rooms in Pound Hill, Worth, Sussex.
In the 1921 census as Eric Charles Coleman born in Hartfield, Sussex, and living with Charles John and Frances Mary Coleman (parents?), Ivy Vera Coleman (sister?) and Reginald Leobnard Martin in Charlwood, Reigate, Surrey.
There are five entries in Ancestry Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for Eric Charles Coleman address Greenings Farm, Charlwood, Reigate in 1920 to 1923, other occupants Charles John and Francis Mary Coleman (parents?).
Marriage of Eric C Coleman and Elsie A Osgood in FreeBMD in April-June 1923 in Reigate (2A 416).
There are eighteen entries in Ancestry Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for Eric Coleman address Greenings Cottages, Charlwood, Reigate in 1923, Stanhill Court Stables, Charlwood, Reigate in 1924 to 1928, Glenfield Cottage, Glovers Road, Charlwood, Reigate in 1929, other occupant Elsie Ann Coleman (wife?), Moores Farm, Charlwood, Reigate in 1930, other occupant Elsie Ann Coleman (wife?), Greenings Farm, Charlwood, Reigate in 1931 to 1935 and Greenings Farm, Stanhill, Charlwood, Reigate in 1936 to 1938 other occupants Elsie Ann Coleman (wife?) and Francis Mary Coleman (mother?).
His daughters were born in Charlwood and registered in Reigate in 1924 and 1925.
Entry in the 1939 England and Wales Register as Eric C Colman (sic - in the index) born 29 September 1898, married, a farmer, and living with Elsie A Colman (wife?), Edna M Coleman (daughter?), Francis M Coleman (mother?), and two others (daughters?) at Greenings Farm, Charlwood, Dorking and Horley, Surrey.
His wife died in SE Surrey in 1941.
There are two entries in FreeBMD for the marriage of Eric C Coleman to Edith O Maclem and Edith O Mitchell in July-September 1944 in Surrey SE (2A 1341) (there is only on entry on the original with the spouse as "Maclem or Mitchell).
Seventeen entries in Ancestry Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for Eric C Coleman address Greenings Farm, Stanhill, Charlwood, Reigate in 1945, other occupants Edith O Coleman (wife?), Frances M Coleman (mother?) and Jean Coleman (daughter?), Glovers Road, Charlewood, Reigate from 1946 to 1947, other occupant Edith O Coleman (wife?), Glovers Meadow, Glovers Road, Charlewood, Reigate from 1948 to 1956, other occupant Edith O Coleman (wife?), and 24 Perrylands Estate, Charlwood, Dorking from 1952 to 1961, other occupant Edith O Coleman (wife?).
Death of Eric C Coleman in FreeBMD in July-September 1968 aged 69 in Surrey SE (5G 309).
There are nineteen entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Eric Charles Coleman.
Eric Charles Coleman was the husband of Edith Olive Mitchell, wife of Omar Leslie Macklem, husband of Edith Maud Mary Luff, my half third cousin.
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