Birth: April-May 1857 Bungay, Suffolk, UK
Father: Thomas Jordan c1813-1871
Mother: Elizabeth Leeder (Leaders) 1813-1864
Christening: 3 May 1857 St Mary, Bungay, Suffolk, UK
Marriage: 24 October 1877 St Peter, Paddington, Middlesex, UK
Wife: Clara Elizabeth Fowler 1856-1891
Marriage: October-December 1892 Bromley, Kent, UK
Wife: Amy Luff 1862-1959
Death: 10 May 1934 129 Buchanan Gardens, Willesden, Middlesex, UK
By Clara
Reginald Edgar Richard Jordan 1879-1898
Herbert Thomas Jordan 1880-1887
Ivy Mina Jordan 1889-1896
By Amy
Francis Harold Jordan 1893-a1911
Entry in FreeBMD for the birth of Edgar Jordan in April-June 1857 in Wangford (4a 630 - sic in the index, 680 on the handwritten original).
Christening of Edgar Jordan in the IGI on 3 May 1857 in Suffolk County Bts (Bishops Transcripts), Suffolk, parents Thomas and Elizabeth Jordan.
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Edgar Jordan in 1857 at St. Mary, Bungay, Suffolk, parents Thomas and Elizabeth Jordan.
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales Christening Records, 1530-1906 for Edgar Jordan on 3 May 1857 in Bungay, Suffolk, parents Thomas and Elizabeth Jordan.
In the 1861 census as Edgar Jordan aged 4, born in Bungay, Suffolk, and living with his parents (Thomas and Elizabeth), four brothers (Amos, Ephriam, George and Thomas) and two sisters (Maria and Mary Ann) at Butcher's Arms Inn, Dopson Street, Bungay, Suffolk.
His father died just before the 1871 census.
In the 1871 census as Edgar Jordon aged 14, born in Bungay, Suffolk, and living with his widowed mother (Mary), cousin (Hephyibah Bird aged 11 and born in Mettingham, Suffolk) and a boarder (Elijah Harry aged 51, born in All Saints, Suffolk, married and a carrier) at ? Arms, Dopson Street, Bungay, Suffolk.
Marriage of Edgar Jordan and Clara Elizabeth Fowler in FreeBMD in October-December 1877 in Kensington (1a 269).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 for Edgar Jordan aged 22, father Thomas Jordan, and Clara Elizabeth Fowler aged 21, father Richard Fowler, on 24 October 1877 at St Peter Paddington, Westminster. "1877 Marriage solemnized at St Peter Church in the Parish of St Peter, Paddington in the County of Middlesex. No. 469 October 24 1877 Edgar Jordan aged 22, a bachelor and engine drive of 25 Golney Road, father Thomas Jordan, deceased, and Clara Elizabeth Fowler aged 21, a spinster of 2 Foskett Mews, Amber Grove, father Richard Fowler, a Smith. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Establish Church after banns [...] in the Presence of us Richard Fowler and Lucy Jordon".
In the 1881 census as Edgar Jordan aged 25, born in Bungay, Suffolk, a railway fireman, and living with his wife (Clara), two sons (Edgar and Herbert), and three boarders (Alice Fowler aged 27, Eva Fowler aged 14 and Minnie Fowler aged 22 all single, born in Paddington and employed as mantle makers, and sisters-in-law?) at 38 Hampden Street, Paddington, Middlesex.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Edgar Jordan address 38 Hampden Street, Paddington in 1883.
In the 1891 census as Edgar Jordan aged 34, born in Bungay, Norfolk, a railway engine driver and living with his wife (Clara), son (Edgar), daughter (Ivey), and father (in-law) (Richard Fowler) in three rooms at 57 Amberley Road, Paddington, London. There were three other families at the same address.
His wife died in Paddington in July-September 1891.
Marriage of Edgar Jordan and Amy Luff in FreeBMD in October-December 1892 in Bromley (2a 754a).
Eight entries in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Edgar Jordan address 12 Macroom Road, Paddington, Westminster in 1893 to 1907, other occupant Frank Arnold Mills in 1895.
His son was born in Paddington in 1893.
In the 1901 census as Edgar Goodan (sic - in the index, Jordan on the original) aged 43, born in Bungay, Suffolk, a railway engine driver and living with his wife (Amy), son (Francis), neice (Freda Wilkins aged 10 and born in Bretford, Warwickshire) and a boarder (George Turpin aged 27, born in Paddington, London, single and a railway engine driver) at 12 Macroom Road, Paddington, London. This address was shared with two other families.
In the 1911 census as Edgare Jordan aged 54, born in Bungay, Suffolk, an electrical engineer, driver railway and living with his wife (Amy), son (Francis Harold), a visitor (Mary Gothard aged 21, born in Oakfield Road, Croydon, single and independent) and a boarder (Doborah Elkan aged 75, born in London, a jewess, married, independent and insane at 70 years of age) in seven rooms at 11 Dundonald Road, Kensal Rise, Willesden NW, Middlesex.
Ten entries in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Edgar Jordan address 129 Buchanan Gardens, Willesden in 1923 to 1935, other occupants Adeline Jordan (neice?) in 1923 to 1926, Adeline Charlotte Jordan (neice?) in 1929, and Grace Elizabeth Whurr in 1929 to 1935 plus others. There is no mention of his wife or son after 1911.
Death of Edgar Jordan in FreeBMD in April-June 1934 aged 77 in Willesden (3a 347).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966 for Edgar Jordan died on 10 May 1934 in Middlesex, Probate 3 July 1934 in London. "Jordan Edgar of 129 Buchanan-gardens Willesden Middlesex died 10 May 1934 Probate London 3 July to Grace Elizabeth Whurr spinster. Effects £756 6s. 8d".
Erika Clark has an entry in RootsWeb WorldConnect for Edgar Jordan christened 2 May 1857 in Bungay, Suffolk, parents Thomas Jordan and Elizabeth Leeder, a railway fireman, his marriage to Clara Elizabeth Fowler in about December 1877 in Kensington, London, three children, his marriage to Amy Luff in about December 1862 in Bromley, Kent, and one child. There is an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees with the same information. Another entry just gives his birth in 1857 in Bungay, Suffolk, parents Thomas Jordan and Elizabeth Leeder, and ten other entries.
Edgar Jordan was the husband of Amy Luff, my half first cousin twice removed.
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