Son of
W.P. 'Bill' Richardson's Great Aunt, Annie
Lee
Edwin was born on
1st September 1897. He was the fourth child of
Thomas Ellison and his wife Annie (nee Lee) and his
birth was registered in the Auckland Registration
District. He was baptised on 16th
September 1897 and his baptism was recorded in the Crook
Register of Methodist Baptisms. The family lived at
Mount Pleasant and his Dad's occupation was recorded as
Schoolmaster. He was counted in the 1901
census, with his family at Milburn Street, Crook, Co.
Durham. Aged 3, he had two older brothers, Stephen (11)
and Sydney (8) and a sister Mabel who was 9. Edwin's
parents were both 35 and his dad was listed as as
schoolteacher. Sadness for the
family, when Edwin's brother Sydney died in 1903, aged
10, and again in 1905 when their Mam, Annie, died. Edwin
would only have been about eight when his Mam died.
The census of 1911 recorded the family still in Milburn
Street. Edwin was 13. His dad, Thomas, was 45 and still a
schoolteacher, and his older brother Stephen (21) was a
student teacher. Edwin's sister, Mabel, was 19 and as
no occupation was listed for her I assume she looked
after them all. In the first quarter of
1929, Edwin married Margaret Rawe, their marriage was
registered in the Auckland Registration District.
I do not yet have a record of Edwin's death. |
