Birth: 17 December 1905 Snaith, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Father: Fred Ramsey 1880-1951
Mother: Edith Mary Durham 1882-1911
Marriage: January-March 1932 Goole, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Husband: Albert Cyril Read 1909-1989
Death: July-September 1965 Goole, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Buried: Snaith Cowick and Gowdall Cemetery, Snaith, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Edith Agnes Read [Gregory] 1933-2010
Birth of Edith Lilian Ramsey in FreeBMD in January-March 1906 in Goole (9C 981).
In the 1911 census as Edith Lilian Durham (sic) aged 5, born in Snaith, Yorkshire, and living with her mother (Edith Mary) and brother (Lawrence) who were living with her mother's parents (Martin Lee and Agnes Durham), and their son (Martin Bell) and daughter (Frances Elizabeth - future stepmother?) in five rooms at Shearburn Cottage, Snaith, Yorkshire.
Her mother died in October-December 1911 in Goole.
Her father married his sister-in-law Frances Elizabeth Durham in April-June 1919 in Goole.
In the 1921 census as Edith Lilian Ramsey born in 1905 and living with Fred Ramsey (father?), Francis Elizabeth Ramsey (stepmother?), Lawrence Ramsey (brother?), and Malin Lee and Agnes Durham (grandparents?) in Snaith & Cowick, Goole, Yorkshire (West Riding).
Three entries in the Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Electoral Registers, 1840-1962 for Edith Lilian Ramsey living in Buttle Lane, Snaith, Snath & Cowick, Pontefract from 1929 to 1931.
Marriage of Edith L Ramsey and Albert C Read in FreeBMD in January-March 1932 in Goole (9C 1745).
Her daughter was registered in April-June 1933 in Goole, mother's maiden name Ramsay (sic).
Eight entries in Ancestry All West Yorkshire, England, Electoral Registers, 1840-1962 for Edith Lillian (sic) Read addresses Sandown, Snaith, Snaith & Cowick, Pontefract from 1932 to 1937, other occupant Albert Cyril Read (husband?), 20 Butt Lane, Snaith, Snaith & Cowick, Pontefract in 1938, other occupant Albert Cyril Read (husband?) and 18 Butt Lane, Snaith, Snaith & Cowick, Pontefract in 1939, other occupant Albert Cyril Read (husband?).
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Edith L Read born 17 December 1905, married, and living with Albert C Read (husband?) and three others at 18 Butt Lane, Goole, Yorkshire (West Riding). 20 Butt Lane is not listed.
Five entries in Ancestry All West Yorkshire, England, Electoral Registers, 1840-1962 for Edith L Read address 18 Butt Lane, Snaith, Snaith & Cowick, Pontefract from 1945 to 1950 other occupants Albert C Read (husband?), and Lawrence and Ivy E Ramsey (brother and sister-in-law?) (her father and stepmother were living at 16), eight entries for Edith Lilian Read address 18 Butt Lane, Snaith, Snaith & Cowick, Goole from 1951 to 1958, other occupants Albert Cyril Read (husband?), and Edith A Read (daughter?) from 1954, and three entries for Edith L Read address 22 Butt Lane, Snaith, Snaith & Cowick, Goole from 1959 to 1962, other occupants Albert C Read (husband?), and Edith A Read (daughter?) in 1959 - her daughter and son-in-law were living at 18 from 1960.
Death of Edith L Read in FreeBMD in July-September 1965 aged 59 in Goole ((2B 455).
Entry in Find a Grave for Edith Lilian Ramsey Read, born in 1905 in Goole, East Riding, Yorkshire, died in September 1965, spouse Albert Cyril Read, and buried in Snaith Cowick and Gowdall Cemetery, Snaith, East Riding of Yorkshire, "In Heavenly/Love Abiding/Edith Lilian Read/1905-1965/Albert Cyril Read/1909-1908".
There are seven entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Edith Lilian Read.
Note that Goole was in West Riding, Yorkshire until 1974 when it became part of Humberside and part of the East Riding of Yorkshire in 2002 not to be confused with East Riding, Yorkshire which was abolished in 1974.
Edith Lilian Ramsey was the wife of Albert Cyril Read, Felicity's third cousin twice removed.
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