Birth: 6 May 1876 Spitalfields, Whitechapel, Middlesex, UK
Father: George Thornton Legg 1853-1926
Mother: Marion Collins 1856-1938
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: Unknown
Husband: Lewis William Westaway 1876-1947
Death: April-June 1955 East Ham, Essex, UK
Ida Marion Westaway [Musto] 1901-1984
Arthur George Westaway 1908-1993
Charles Lewis Westaway 1914-2001
Hilda Mary Westaway [Forbes, Luxford] 1916-1990
Birth of Elsie Marion Legg in FreeBMD in April-June 1876 in Whitechapel (1C 349).
In the 1881 census as Elsie Legg aged 5, born in Spitalfields, Middlesex, and living with her parents (George T and Marion), brother (Alfred), sister (Hilda), and three servants (Mary Ann Bathe aged 18 and born in Bath, Horace Lett aged 15 and born in Colchester, Essex, and Mary A Barnard aged 16 and born in Canning Town, Essex, all single) at 4 Bakers Row, Whitechapel, London. Another two families lived at the same address.
In the 1891 census as Elsie Legg aged 14, born in Mile End, London, and living with her parents (George T and Marion), four brothers (Alfred G, Cecil R, Douglas H and George T) and sister (Hilda) and a boarder (Ellen Dixon aged 50, born in Lambeth, London, married and a general servant) at 88 Hanbury Street, Mile End New Town, London.
Her daughter was born in Cape Town in 1901.
Her husband arrived in Southampton on 3 June 1905 from Cape Town, South Africa
Her son was born in Cape Town in 1908.
Entry in Ancestry UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 for Mrs Westaway arriving on 12 August 1911 at Southampton on Balmoral Castle, Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company Ltd, from Durban, South Africa, but embarked at Cape Town and travelled third class, accompanied by Arthur and Ida Westaway (son and daughter?).
Her son and daughter were born in West Ham in 1914 and 1916.
In the 1921 census as Elsie Marion Westaway born in London in 1876 and living with Lewis William Westaway (husband?), Arthur George and Charles Lewis Westaway (sons?) and Hilda Mary and Ida Marion Westaway (daughters?) in East Ham, West Ham, Essex.
Two entries in Ancestry UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 for Elsie Westaway on 2 January 1933 aged 46, a trained nurse and resident of S Rhodesia, at Southampton on Edinburgh Castle, Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company Ltd, second class, from Capetown, address Meadowcroft, Longlands Road, Sidcup, and on 19 May 1939 aged 52, and a nurse, at Southampton on RMV Warwick Castle, Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company Ltd from Capetown, address c/o Mrs Weir, 36 Granada Road, Southsea, Hants.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register for Elsie M Westaway born 6 May 1876, married, and living with Lewis W Westaway (husband?) and Ida M Musto (daughter?) at 102 Shrewsbury Road, East Ham, Essex.
Her husband died in East Ham in 1947.
Death of Elsie M Westaway in FreeBMD in April-June 1955 in E Ham (5A 7).
There are nineteen entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Elsie Marion Legg.
Elsie Marion Legg was the mother of Ida Marion Westaway, wife of Ernest Arthur Musto, husband of Gladys Grocock, my half third cousin.
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