Edith Allen

Edith Mary Allen

Born: 5 February 1865, Melton Mowbray 

Baptised: 19 March 1865, Saltby 

Father: Jonathan Allen (b. 1842)

Mother: Annie Allen (b. 1842)

In 1881 – 

She is at 42 Corporation Road, Nottingham. Her father is listed as ‘Stone Mason’. Her mother and grandmother, Mary Steans (b. 1816), are unlisted. Edith is listed as ‘Pupil Teacher’. 

In 1891 – 

She is at Promenade, Nottingham. Her father is listed as ‘Mason’. Edith is listed as ‘Elementary Teacher’. Her grandmother, Mary Steans (b. 1816), is listed as widow and ‘Living on Own Means’. Her mother and Albert U Spence (b. 1883), a boarder, are unlisted. James Spence (b. 1859), a lodger, is listed as ‘Warehouseman’. 

In 10/00 – 

Address is 22 Robin Hood Street, Nottingham. 

In 1901 – 

She is at 22 Robin Hood Street the Promenade, Nottingham. Her father is listed as ‘Stone Mason’. Edith is listed as ‘Board School Teacher’. Her mother and grandmother, Mary Steans (b. 1816), are unlisted.

In 1911 –

She is at Saltburry, Robinson Road, Nottinghamshire. Her father is listed as ‘Invalid Former Occupation Stone Mason’. Edith is listed as ‘Teacher’. Her mother is unlisted. 

In 1921 – 

She is at Saltby, Robinson Road, Carlotn. Edith and her mother are unlisted. There is a boarder, Phoebe Helen Gordon (b. 1887), listed as ‘Chemist Assistant’. There is a boarder, Maude Leo (b. 1881), listed as ‘Deaconess’.  

In 1939 – 

She is at Delville House near Keyworth, Debdale Lane, Normantion on the Wales, Nottinghamshire. Edith is listed as ‘Retired Teacher’. James Spencer (b. 1858) is listed as ‘Hosiery Warehouseman Retired’. Anniss G Price (b. 1892) is listed as widowed ‘House Keeper’. 

d.         16 September 1953, Nottingham 

ALLEN, Edith Mary of 79 Forest Road, West Nottingham, spinster died 16 September 1953 at The General Hospital, Nottingham. Probate Nottingham 23 November to Annis Gertrude Price, widow and Henry Thornton Masser, solicitor. Effects £448, 15s, 6d.