Birth: January-February 1875 Roughton, Norfolk, UK
Father: George Todd 1855-1923
Mother: Hannah Wright 1853-1934
Christening: 28 February 1876 Aylsham, Norfolk, UK
Marriage: October-December 1899 Hindolveston, Norfolk, UK
Husband: Albert Edward Chapman 1875-1945
Death: October-December 1962 Acle, Norfolk, UK
Albert Austin Chapman 1899-1964
James William Chapman 1901-a1911
Ronald Eric Chapman 1903-a1911
Stanley Cecil G Chapman 1905-a1939
John Henry Chapman 1908-a1911
Doris Evelyn Chapman [Everitt] 1909-1989
Florence D Chapman 1917-a1939
Birth of Edith Matilda T Wright in FreeBMD in January-March 1875 in Erpingham (4b 61).
Two entries in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Edith Matilda Wright baptised on 28 February 1876 in Aylsham, Norfolk, mother Hannah Wright.
Her parents married in 1880.
In the 1881 census as Edith Todd aged 6, born in Roughton, Norfolk, and living with her parents (George and Hannah) in Burgh Stubbs, Brinningham, Norfolk.
In the 1891 census as Edith Todd aged 16, born in Roughton, Norfolk, and living with her parents (George and Hannah), and four brothers (Albert, Bertie, Charles and John) at3 Dereham Road, Brinningham, Norfolk.
Marriage of Edith Matilda Todd and Albert Edward Chapman in FreeBMD in October-December 1899 in Aylsham (4b 258).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for Edith Matilda Todd aged 25, father George Todd, and Albert Edward Chapman aged 25, father James Chapman, on 25 December 1899 in Hindolveston, Norfolk.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1940 for Edith Matilda Todd and Albert Edward Chapman on 10 December 1899 in Hindolveston "No. 162 Banns of Marriage between Albert Edward Chapman Bachelor and Edith Matilda Todd, Spinster Were published on the Three Sundays underwritten; that is to say 1st, on Sunday Nov 26 [...] 2d, on Sunday Dec 3 [...] 3d, on Sunday Dec 10", and another for for Edith Matilda Dodd, father Peony Dodd, and Albert Edward Chapman aged 25, father Farnel Chapman in Hindolveston or Hindolvestone, Norfolk on 25 December 1899. "1899 Marriage solemnized in the temporary Church in the Parish of Hindolveston in the County of Norfolk [No.] 270 Dec 25 1899 Albert Edward Chapman [aged] 25, [a] Bachelor [and] Labourer [of] Hindolveston, [father] James Chapman [a] Labourer, [and] Edith Matilda Dodd (sic) [aged] 25, [a] Spinster [of] Hindolveston, [father] George Zodd, [a] Labourer. Married in the temporary church, the parish church being in ruins, according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church by me, after Banns [witnessed by George Todd who made his mark and Florence Denny]".
In the 1901 census as Edith H (sic - in the index, H on the original) Chapman aged 26, born in Roughton, Norfolk, and living with her husband (Albert E), and two sons (Albert E and James W) in four rooms on The Green, Hunworth, Norfolk.
Her first four children were born in Hunworth between 1899 and 1905, and last two in Letheringsett in 1908 and 1909.
In the 1911 census as Edith Chapman aged 37, born in Roughton, Norfolk, married for 13 years with six children all still living, and living with her husband (Albert Edward), five sons (Albert, James, John, Ronald and Stanley) and daughter (Doris) and a boarder (Alfred Yarham aged 60, born in Edgefield, Norfolk, widowed and a farm labourer) in four rooms at Letheringsett near Holt, Norfolk.
Her daughter was born in Letheringsett in 1917.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Edith M Chapman, born on 25 January 1875, married, and living at West Barsham Near Lodge, Walsingham, Norfolk, other occupants Albert E Chapman (husband?), Stanley C G Chapman (son?), and Florence D Chapman (daughter?).
Her husband died in Fakenham in 1945.
Death of Edith M Chapman in FreeBMD in October-December 1962 in Acle (4b 437).
Note the current spelling is Briningham.
Edith Matilda Todd Wright was the mother of Doris Evelyn Chapman, wife of Albert Edward Everitt, Felicity's first cousin twice removed.
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