Birth: 22 July 1892 Cannock, Staffordshire, UK
Father: William Kennedy 1870-a1911
Mother: Anna Plant 1868-a1911
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: April-June 1933 Doncaster, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Wife: Emma Adams 1895-1968
Death: October-December 1975 Rotherham, South Yorkshire, UK
Eileen Kennedy [Croucher, Laing, Wetherell] 1942-a2010
Margaret Kennedy 1942
Birth of Edgar Kennedy in FreeBMD in July-September 1892 in Cannock (6b 530).
Two entries in Ancestry Staffordshire, England, Birth, Marriage and Death Indexes, 1837-2017 for Edgar Kennedy, born in 1892, mother Plant in one and 22 July 1892 in the other.
In the 1901 census as Edgar Kennedy aged 8, born in Cannock, Staffordshire, and living with his parents (William and Annie), two brothers (Percy and William J), and a boarder (Edward Butler aged 72, born in Willenhall, Staffordshire, widowed, and a journeyman tailor) in Stafford Road, Cannock, Staffordshire.
In the 1911 census as Edward Kennedy aged 18, born in Cannock, Staffordshire, single, a horse driver in mine, and living with his parents (William and Annie), two brothers (Percy and William James), a servant (Ethel Percy aged 20, born in Netherton Dudley and single), and a boarder (Albert Clark aged 25, born in Cannock, Staffordshire, single and a trammer below ground) in six rooms at 13 York Street, Mexborough, Yorkshire.
Entry in Ancestry British Army WWI Service Records, 1914-1920 for Edgar Kennedy aged 22 years 6 months, address 15 (sic - in the index, 13 on the original) Yorks Street, Meyboro, Yorks, single, a miner, next of kin mother 13 York Street, Mexboro, Yorks, height 5 ft 5.5 in, weight 112 lbs, chest 34.5 range 3 in, had lost part of left forefinger, attested 25 January 1915 in Mexborough as 66559 Driver Royal Field Artillary, joined at Hilsea, Portsmouth, 26 January 1915, in hospital with rheumatism 18 September 1916 to 14 December 1916,a driver at ? 20 March 1917, posted France 23 April 1917, Corporal 18 May 1918, wounded in face, thigh and back 22 September 1918, at some time at Queen Mary's Military Hospital, Whalley, demobilised 16 January 1919 at Woolwich, received 1915 Star 23 July 1920. However much is illegible.
Marriage of Edgar Kennedy and Emma Adams in FreeBMD in April-June 1933 in Doncaster (9c 1930).
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Edgar Kennedy born 22 July 1892, married, a colliery filler unpaid (sic in the index, original illegible, and living with Emma Kennedy (wife?) at 35 Dodsworth Street, Mexborough, (West Riding)
His two daughters were born in Newcastle upon Tyne in April-June 1942.
Fifteen entries in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Electoral Registers, 1840-1962 for Edgar Kennedy address 115 Windhill Crescent, Mexborough, Don Valley changing to Dearne Valley in 1950, from 1945 to 1961, other occupant Emma Kennedy (wife?).
His wife died in Don Valley in 1968.
Death of Edgar Kennedy, born ? June 1892, in FreeBMD in October-December 1975 in Rotherham (3 849).
There are three entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Edgar Kennedy,
Edgar Kennedy was the father of Eileen Kennedy, wife of Donald James Harry Croucher, my first cousin.
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