Birth: July-September 1852 Crookham, Hampshire, UK
Father: Edward Luff 1810-1891
Mother: Harriet Croucher 1815-1893
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: August 1883 St Mary Magdalene, Peckham, Camberwell, Surrey, UK
Wife: Jessie Maria Letton (Litton) 1858-1919
Death: October-December 1921 Tonbridge, Kent, UK
Daisy Harriet Luff [Redman] 1884-1961
Florence Violet Luff [Cross] 1888-1968
Birth of Edward Luff in FreeBMD in July-September 1852 in Hartney Wintney (2c 126) which included Crookham.
In the 1861 census as Edward Luff aged 8, born in Crookham and living with his parents (Edward and Harriett) and brother (William) at Shortfield Common, Frensham, Surrey.
In the 1871 census as Edward Luft (sic - in the index, correct on the original), aged 19, born in Crookham, single, employed as a letter carrier and living with his parents (Edward and Harriett), sister (Elizabeth) and nephew (Alfred) at Shortfield Common, Frensham.
In the 1881 census as Edward Luff aged 28, born in Crookham, single, employed as a second gardener, and living with Edward Charles Collins (aged 23, born in Charlton, Kent, unmarried and employed as a third gardener) at Garden Cottage, Frognal, Chislehurst, Kent (this is on or near Perry Street, now the A222, near the A20 intersection).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 for the banns of Edward Luff and Jessie Maria Litton on 5 August 1883 at St Mary Magdalene, Peckham, Camberwell. "Page 145 The Year 1883 Banns of Marriage between Edward Luff (Bachr) and Jessie Maria (crossed out) Letton (spinster) of this parish on 22 July, 29 July, and 5 August."
Marriage of Edward Luff and Jessie Litton in FreeBMD in June-September 1883 in Camberwell (1d 1245).
His first daughter was born in Hampstead in 1884 and second in Tunbridge Wells in 1888.
In the 1891 census as Edward Luff aged 38, born in Crookham, Hampshire, employed as a gardener, and living with his wife (Jessie M) and two daughters (Daisy H and Florence V) at 11 Waterdown Cottages, Frant, Kent (north of Frant and may now be part of Tunbridge Wells).
In the 1901 census as Edward Tuff (sic - in the index, correct on the original), aged 48, born in Crookham, employed as a domestic gardener, and living with his wife (Jessie M) and two daughters (Daisy H and Florence V) at 16 Broadwater Down, Broadwater Down, Kent (southern part of Tunbridge Wells between A26 and A267). The address was shared with another family.
In the 1911 census as Edward Luff aged 58, born in Crookham, Hampshire, a gardener, and living with his wife husband (Jessie Maria) and daughter (Daisy Harriett) in five rooms at 35 Frant Road, Tunbridge Wells.
His wife died in Tonbridge in 1919.
Death of Edward Luff in FreeBMD in October-December 1921 aged 69 in Tonbridge (2a 975).
There are five entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Edward Luff born in 1853 in Crookham, Hapshire, parents Edward Luff and Harriet Croucher. Another adds his marriage to Jessie Maria Letton in 1883 in Camberwell, London and his two daughters.
David Hornblow has an entry for Edward Luff born in 1853 in Crookham, Hampshire, parents Edward Luff and Harriet Croucher, his marriage to Jessie Maria Litton in 1883 in Camberwell Surrey, and his two daughters.
Edward Luff was my half first cousin twice removed.
Luff Gendex