Thomas And Edith Crankshaw Family

Generation 3 Ancestor Family 4 Sibling Family A_B_B

1943 To 1945

Great Grandson Of Author’s 3 x Great Grandparents

Descendant Of Crankshaw Ancestor Family #1

Overview

Edith Hetty Barson was born in 1900 in Leicester to an Elastic Web Weaver. Thomas Lyon Crankshaw was born in 1901 in Leicester to a Butcher Manager. Thomas and Edith married in 1943 and lived in Leicester with no children until Thomas died aged 43 in 1945. Edith died aged 57 in 1957.

Family

Parents

Thomas: Thomas Crankshaw (1871-1926) and Sarah Taylor (1872-1952). Butcher from Leicester. Sibling Family

Edith: Thomas Ernest Barson and Ada Annie Beardmore. Elaster Web Weaver from Leicester. Inlaw Family

Heads

Thomas Lyon Crankshaw (1901-1945)

Edith Hetty Barson (1900-1957)

Children

No Children.

Timeline

10th January 1900 Edith born at 5 Cardigan Street Leicester to Thomas and Ada Barson, Thomas is an Elastic Web Weaver.

28th July 1901 Thomas born at 130 Humberstone Road Leicester to Thomas and Sarah Crankshaw, Thomas is a Butcher’s Shop Superintendent.

1906 To 1908 Thomas’s father Thomas gets his own Butcher shop in Upper Conduit Street Leicester.

29th October 1918 Thomas’s brother Harry is killed aged 19 in France or Flanders. Thomas is aged 17.

27th January 1925 Thomas’s sister Joan dies aged 8 of General Tuberculosis. Thomas is aged 23, he is a Steel Turner in the 1921 census.

27th July 1926 Thomas’s father Thomas dies aged 55. Thomas is aged 24.

3rd August 1942 Thomas’s brother Archibald commits suicide aged 45. Thomas is aged 41.

5th August 1943 Thomas and Edith married at St Martin Leicester. Thomas is aged 42 an Engineer living at 16 Loseby Lane Leicester and Edith is aged 42 living at 41 Harrow Road Leicester.

19th May 1945 Thomas dies aged 43 at Royal Infirmary Leicester of Lympho Carcinoma. He was a Master Engineer living at 41 Harrow Road Leicester. Edith was informant and was present at the death. Edith married Robert Murch in 1947 but they have no children. Edith dies aged 57 on 8th February 1957 at Royal Infirmary Leicester of Secondary Carcinoma of Brain Liver and Bone.