Birth: 29 December 1863 Blackheath, Kent, UK
Father: Joseph Abbott Temple 1829-1901
Mother: Jane Denton c1826-1904
Christening: 31 January 1864 Saint Bartholomew Moor Lane, London, UK
Marriage: 1 December 1898 St Nicholas Cole Abbey, City of London, UK
Husband: Wilfred Stanley Durrant 1871-1914
Death: 22 October 1950 43 Ennerdale Road, Richmond upon Thames, Surrey, UK
Burial: 25 October 1950 St Mary, Reigate, Surrey, UK
Edith Aline (Alice) Durrant [Syms] 1900-1981
Birth of Edith Jane Temple in FreeBMD in January-March 1864 in Greenwich (d 689).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Edith Jane Temple born 29 December 1863, baptised 31 January 1864 at Saint Bartholomew Moor Lane, London, parents Joseph Abbott and Jane Temple.
In the 1871 census as Edith Jane Temple aged 7, born in Blackheath, Kent, and living with her father (Joseph A Semple), a visitor (Ann Maria Denton aged 52. born in Newport; Isle of Wight, single and no stated employment - aunt?) and a servant (Matilda Blow aged 15, and born in Wapping) att 44 Great Marlborough Street, Golden Square, St James, Westminster. Her mother and brother were visiting her grandmother Elizabeth Denton at 2 Park Place, Clarendon Road, Walthamstow.
In the 1881 census as Edith J Temple aged 17, born in Greenwich, Kent, and living with her parents (Joseph A and Jane), and brother (Richard T) at 8 Eastwood Terrace, Hornsey Road, Islington.
In the 1891 census as Edith Jane Temple aged 27, born in Blackheath, Kent, single, a clerk POB, and living in two rooms at 61/62 Chancery Lane, St Andrew and St George, London. Some fourteen others were living at the same address.
Entry in Ancestry UK, University of London Student Records, 1836-1945 for Edith Jane Temple "Matr. June 1882, Bedford Coll. London".
Marriage of Edith Jane Temple and Wifred Stanley Durrant in FreeBMD in October-December 1898 in London City (1c 56).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1931 for Edith Jane Temple, father Joseph Abbott Temple, and Wilfred Stanley Durrant on 1 December 1898 at St Nicholas Cole Abbey, City of London. "Page 136 1898 Marriage solemnized in the Parish Church in the Parish of S Nicholas Cole Abbey in the City County of London No. 271 December 1st Wilfred Stanley Durrant aged 27, a Bachelor and Civil Servant of Tye Foot Lane, father Isaac Durrant, Gentleman, and Edith Jane Durrant aged 34, a Spinster of Tye Foot Lane, father Joseph Abbott Temple, a Clerk in Holy Orders. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church [...] in the Presence of us Walter Worthinson and Jane Temple".
Her daughter was born on 28 April 1900 in Turnham Green, Chiswick.
In the 1901 census as Edith J Durrant aged 47, born in Blackcatls (sic - in the index, Blackheath on the original), London, and living with her husband (Wilfred S), and daughter (Edith Eliza) in three? rooms at 22 Barnaby Gardens, Chiswick, Middlesex. Another family lived at the same address.
In the 1911 census as Edith Jane Durrant aged 47, born in Blackheath, London, married for 12 years with one child still living, and living with her husband (Wilfred Stanley), daughter (Edith Alice) and a servant (Fanny Williams aged 52 and born in Redhill, Surrey) in eight rooms at 94 Croydon Road, Reigate, Surrey.
Her husband died at Nairn Bank, 120 Croydon Road, Reigate on 22 December 1914, and left effects of £735 8s. 7d. to Edith Jane Durrant widow.
There are three entries in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Edith J Durrant address 41 Finchley Court, Ballards Lane, Finchley from 1945 to 1947, other occuant Ruby M Ford.
Death of Edith J Durrant in FreeBMD in October-December 1950 aged 86 in Surrey N (5g 446).
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1987 for Edith Jane Durrant on 25 October 1950 at Reigate, St Mary. "Page 79 Burial in the Parish of Reigate in the Diocese of Southwark and the County of Surrey in the Year 1950 [...] Edith Jane Durrant No. 627 of 43 Ennerdale Road, Richmond on 25 October aged 86".
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995 for Edith Jane Durrant died 22 October 1950 in Surrey probate 3 February 1951 in London. "Durrant Edith Jane of 48 Palewell-park East Sheen Surrey widow died 22 October 1950 at 43 Ennerdale-road Richmond Surrey Probate London 3 February to Edith Aline Syms (wife of Arthur John Syms) and the said Arthur John Syms automobile engineer. Effects £24634 10s. 8d.".
Two entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Edith Jane Temple born in 1865 and married Wilfred Stanley Durrant on 1 December 1899 at St Nicholas Cole Abbey, and the second born in 1864 in Blackheath and adding her daughter Edith Alice.
Edith Jame Temple was the mother of Edith Aline Durrant, wife of Arthur John Sims (Syms), my half third cousin once removed.
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