Birth: 28 April 1900 Turnham Green, Chiswick, Middlesex, UK
Father: Wilfred Stanley Durrant 1871-1914
Mother: Edith Jane Temple 1863-1950
Christening: 9 June 1900 Chiswick, Middlesex, UK
Marriage: 28 September 1929 Christ Church, East Sheen, Mortlake, Surrey, UK
Husband: Arthur John Sims (Syms) 1903-1979
Death: 14 February 1981 Sunbury Nursing Home, Sunbury, Surrey, UK
Diana Mary Syms [Bradley] 1932-2010
Birth of Edith Aline Durrant in FreeBMD in April-June 1900 in Brentford (3a 128).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Edith Aline Durrant born on 28 April 1900 and baptised on 9 June 1900 at Chiswick, Middlesex, parents Wilfred Stanley and Edith Jane Durrant.
In the 1901 census as Edith Eliza (illegible on the original) Durrant aged 1, born in Turaham (sic - in the index, Turnham on the original) Green, Middlesex, and living with her parents (Wilfred S and Edith J), in three? rooms at 22 Barnaby Gardens, Chiswick, Middlesex. Another family lived at the same address.
In the 1911 census as Edith Alice (sic - in the index, Alice on the original) Durrant aged 10, born in Chiswick, London, and living with her parents (Wilfred Stanley and Edith Jane), and a servant (Fanny Williams aged 52 and born in Redhill, Surrey) in eight rooms at 94 Croydon Road, Reigate, Surrey.
Her father died at 120 Croydon Road, Reigate on 22 December 1914.
Marriage of Edith A Durrant and Arthur J Syms in FreeBMD in July-September 1929 in Richmond S (2a 1688).
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Marriages, 1754-1937 for Edith Aline Durrant aged 29, father Wilfred Stanley Durrant, and Arthur John Syms on 28 September 1929 at Mortlake, St Mary. "Page 24 1929 Marriage solemnized at Christ Church East Sheen in the Parish of Mortlake in the County of Surrey. No. 47 Twenty eighth September 1929 Arthur John Syms aged 26 years, a Bachelor and Traveller of 59 Hampton Road Ilford, father Arthur John Syms (deceased), a Police Officer, and Edith Aline Durrant aged 29 years, a Spinster of 48 Palewell Road, East Sheen, father Wilfred Stanley Durrant (deceased), a Civil Servant. Married in Christ Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns [...] in the Presence of us Arthur I Durrant and Henry R Dodd".
Her daughter was born in Richmond in 1932.
I cannot locate her or her daughter in the 1939 England and Wales Register but her widowed mother, husband and one other were living at 48 Palewell Park, Barnes, Surrey.
Her mother died on 22 October 1950 at 43 Ennerdale Road, Richmond and left effects of £24634 10s 8d to Edith Aline Syms and her huband Arthur John Syms, an automobile engineer.
Her husband died in Chichester in 1979, but his residence was Grays Meadow, Grays Park Road, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire and he left £184179.
Death of Edith Alice (sic - on the typed original) Syms, born on 28 April 1900, in FreeBMD in January-March 1981 in Surrey N (17 0494).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995 for Edith Aline Syms died 14 February 1981 in Sunbury, Middlesex, Probate 3 April 1981 in Bristol. "Syms, Edith Aline of Sunbury Nursing Home Sunbury Middx died 14 February 1981 Probate Bristol 3 April £146736".
Entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Edith Aline Durrant born in Chiswick, London in 1901, her marriage to Arthur John Syms in Mortlake, St Mary, Surrey on 28 September 1929, and her death in Sunbury, Nursing Home, Middlesex in 1981.
Note Sunbury was transfered from Middlesex to N Surrey in 1965.
Edith Aline Durrant was the wife of Arthur John Sims (Syms), my half third cousin once removed.
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