Birth: January-March 1875 Lewisham, Kent, UK
Father: Joseph Read c1837-1903
Mother: Esther Jane Janes (James) 1842-1900
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: October-December 1897 Lewisham, London, UK
Husband: Thomas Arthur Luff 1876-1952
Death: July-September 1968 Lewisham, Greater London, UK
Hilda May Luff 1898-1987
Birth of Elizabeth Martha Read in FreeBMD in January-March 1875 in Lewisham (1d 972).
In the 1881 census as Elizabeth Reed (sic - on the original) aged 7 born in Lewisham, Kent, and living with her parents (Joseph and Esther), brother (Geo), and four sisters (Alice, Annie, Marion and Sarah) at 7 Branscombe St, Lewisham, Kent.
In the 1891 census as Elizabeth M Read aged 17, born in Lewisham, Kent, single, and a housemaid living with Eleanor S Baker (aged 69, born in Bethnal Green, London, widowed and living on her own means), and another servant (Maryann Alderson aged 42, born in Ravenstone Dale, Westmorland, single and a cook) at 14 Belsize Square, Hampstead, London.
Marriage of Elizabeth Martha Read and Thomas Arthur Luff in FreeBMD in October-December 1897 in Lewisham (1d 2022).
Her daughter was born in Dulwich in 1898.
In the 1901 census as Elizth Luff aged 26, born in Lewisham, Kent and living with her husband (Thomas) and daughter (Hilda) in a house with its own stables on Rose Hill, London Road, Sydenham, Lewisham, London.
In the 1911 census as Elizabeth Martha Luff aged 36, born in Lewisham, Kent, married for 13 years with one child still living, and living with her husband (Thomas Arthur) and daughter (Hilda Mary) at 103 Goodrich Road, East Dulwich, Camberwell, London SE.
Her husband died in Lewisham in 1952.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Elizabeth M Luff in July-September 1968 aged 93 in Lewisham (5d 188).
Lewisham was transfered from Kent to London in 1889.
Elizabeth Martha Read was the wife of Thomas Arthur Luff, my half second cousin once removed.
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