Edith May Dyer (1871 - 1913)
My great grandmother Edith May Dyer died on 25 Jan 1913, aged 41, one day after she prematurely gave birth to a babygirl, also named Edith May.
The cause of death was tuberculosis, which was also the cause of death of her father Coleman Hill Dyer, who died in 1878 at the age of 34...
Isle of Wight
Edith was born on 25 Jun 1871 at 6, Church Street, Ventnor on the Isle of Wight. She was the eldest daughter of Coleman Hill Dyer and Jane Bassett.
[bc Edith May]
At the time of her birth her father owned a drapers shop, employing four men.
When Edith was just six, on Feb 10th 1878, her father died, leaving her mother Jane with four young children, besides Edith there were Bertie (7), Alice (4) and Winifred (3).
[dc Coleman Hill Dyer]Kent...
[census 1881]Jane moved her children back to her birthcounty Kent and in 1881 we find them in Four Throws near Hawkhurst where Jane is making a living as a dressmaker and the children are all at school
Living with them is Janes' younger sister Julia and Elizabeth Atwell, domestic servant. Elizabeth must have come with them from the Isle of Wight, her birthplace is listed as Ventnor, Isle of Wight.
In 1891, Edith, now 19, is the only sibling still living with her mother. Herbert, 20, is a bookseller living in Islington with Janes' older sister Marianne; Alice has moved to Leicester to live with her aunt Phoebe (Dyer) Clarke, where she is studying to be a teacher and Winifred is living in East Molesley, Surrey as a stationers apprentice to a Richard Fox.
Hackney
