Birth: October-November 1881 Wortley, Yorkshire, UK
Father: Edwin Robinson 1860-1927
Mother: Annie Foster 1860-1936
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 5 September 1910 Primitive Methodist Chapel, Holdforth Street, Pudsey, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Husband: Mason Thomas 1882-1916
Death: 27 December 1932 General Infirmary, North Leeds, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Edwin Henry Thomas 1912-1995
Peter R Thomas 1914-1915
Alec Thomas 1915-1986
Kathleen Thomas [Dawson] 1916-2008
Birth of Ethel Robinson in FreeBMD October-December 1881 in Leeds (9b 523).
In the 1891 census as Ethel Robinson aged 10, born in Leeds, and living with her parents (Edwin and Ann), three brothers (Harry, Joseh F, and Tom), sister (Annie) and grandmother (Martha Foster) at 30 Greenside Road, Wortley, Yorkshire.
In the 1901 census as Ethel Robinson aged 20, born in Leeds, single, employed as an assistant school teacher, and living with her parents (Edwin and Anne), three brothers (Harry, Joseph F and Tom), and two sisters (Annie and Emily) at 2 Elmfield Grove, Armley, Yorkshire.
Marriage of Ethel Robinson and Mason Thomas in FreeBMD in July-September 1910 in Bramley (9b 702).
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, Non-Conformist Records, 1646-1985 for the marriage of Ethel Robinson aged 29, father Edwin Robinson, and Mason Thomas on 5 September 1910 at Primitive Methodist Chapel, Holdforth Street, Pudsey. "Page 3 [...] 1910 Marriage solemnized at Primative Methodist Chapel Holdforth Street in the District of Bramley in the Counties of Yorks W.R. and Leeds C.B. No. 6 Fifth September Mason Thomas aged 28 years, a Bachelor and Dairyman of 1 Moorfield Avenue Upper Wortley, father Henry Thomas (deceased), a Shoemaker, and Ethel Robinson aged 29 years, a Spinster and Elementary School Teacher of 31 Sow Town Pudsey, father Edwin Robinson, a Cloth Drawer. Married in the Holdforth Street Chapel according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Primative Methodists by Certificate [...] in the Presence of us W Thomas, A A Thomas and Edwin Robinson".
In the 1911 census as Ethel Thomas aged 30, born in Leeds Wortley, Yorkshire, married for under 1 year with no children, and living with her husband (Mason) in four rooms at 10 Moorfield Avenue, Armley, Leeds.
Her first son was born in Bramley in 1912, and last three children in N Bierley from 1914 to 1916.
Her husband died on 14 June 1916 in Acres Hall, Pudsey and left effects of £240 12s to Ethel Thomas widow.
Death of Ethel Thomas in FreeBMD in October-December 1932 aged 51 in Leeds North (5b 516).
Entry in Ancestry All England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995 for Ethel Thomas died 27 December 1932 in Yorkshire, probate 28 March 1933 in Wakefield. "Thomas Ethel of 1 Lowell-terrace Pudsey Yorkshire widow died 27 December 1932 at the General Infirmary Leeds Administration (limlited) Wakefield 28 March to Harry Robinson garage foreman and Joseph Foster Robinson butcher. Effects £482 1s. 10d."
According to Mona Chadwick (Duggan) married a milkman and lived in a back-to-back house, and later went into partnership with her sister Annie in a boarding house in Dickson Road, Blackpool, Lancashire, but left after a while.
Ethel Robinson was Felicity's half first cousin twice removed.
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