CERTIFIED COPY OF AN ENTRY OF DEATH

Certified Copy of an Entry of Death

1930 Death in the Sub-District of Feckenham in the County of Worcester, etc

No - When and where died - Sex - Age - Occupation - Cause of death - Signature, description and residence of informant - When registered - Signature of registrar

41 - Eleventh Feburary 1930, red Lion Inn, Astwood Bank, Feckenham R.D. - Albert Parker Edwards - Male - 54 years - Licensed Victualler - (1)a Pulmonary Tuberculosis No P.M. certified by George Wilson MB - Albert G Edwards son present at death Red Lion Inn Astwood Bank Feckenham - Eleventh February 1930 - Frank J Webb Registrar

EDWARDS Albert Garnett of The Fox Inn Stourton Kinver Staf-

fordshire died 28 July 1950 Administration London 6 September

to Margaret Edwards widow and Ralph Clifford Edwards

licensed victualler. Effects £4705 18s 5d

ertified Copy of an Entry of Death

1962 Death in the Sub-District of Driotwich in the County of Worcester

No - When and where died - Sex - Age - Occupation - Cause of death - Signature, description and residence of informant - When registered - Signature of registrar

65 - Thirtieth December 1961, Ravenscourt Nursing Home, Old Coach Road, Droitwich - Annie Elizabeth EDWARDS - Female - 90 years - Widow of Albert Parker Edwards a Hotelier - 1(a) Broncho pneumonia (b) Chronic bronchitis Certified by Jeanne C Addenbrooke MB - Grevillw R Edwards Grandson, Firs Farm, Impney Estate, Droitwich - First January 1962 - Vernon H Hedges Registrar

Droitwich Guardian

5th January 1962

MRS A. E. EDWARDS

The death of Mrs. Annie Elizabeth Edwards, formerly of Collinsfield, Evesham, which took place in her ninety-first year at Ravenscourt, Droitwich (on December 30th 1961), sees the passing of one whose family had long connections with Evesham and Broadway. She was born in Evesham and was one of the three daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stokes, who then lived on Merstow Green at a house adjacent to the Almonry.

There on Merstow Green, Thomas Stokes carried on his business as a wheelwright and it was he who built the first "Famous Vale of Evesham Light Gardening Dray for a Half-Legged Horse to Trot" (the quotation is from his account book) a century ago, the forerunner of many that became so familiar a sight in the towns and villages from the sixties onwards. He built many more for the use of the Vale gardeners and among the familiar local names listed in his notebook for whom he made drays, traps, carts and trucks were such prominent figures in Victorian Evesham as Mayor Allard, Alfred Haines, Henry Masters, Messrs. Espleys, Fred Hirons, John Idiens and Fred George.

Thomas Stokes also had long-standing business dealings with the people of the circus and fairgrounds, and had a contract to effect necessary repairs and renewals to their waggons whenever they visited the district. He built living waggons for many of the show people's families as well as shooting galleries and other equipment peculiar to the trade of his wandering customers, and among the names figuring in his books are some still familiar today, such as Wilsons and Chipperfields.

The family eventually lived at La Quinta, Broadway, and in this village the drays and carts continued to be made and to play their part in the district's leading industry. Here the wheelwright's children grew up, and when the Maxton family visited the village to stay with Mr. and Madame de Navarro at Court Farm, they offered Mrs. Edwards a family post with them which took her for several years to Paris and other parts of the continent.

In 1897 she married at St. Lawrence Church, Evesham, Mr. Albert Parker Edwards, of Birmingham and they spent many years at Redditch and later Droitwich in the innkeeping and hotel industry. In the 1920's they were for several years proprietors of the Bear Hotel, Evesham and were afterwards at the Red Lion Hotel, Astwood Bank until Mr. Edwards death in 1930. A few years later Mrs. Edwards returned to Evesham living in Cheltenham Road and then at Collinsfield, until she moved to Droitwich a few years ago.

She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. H. J. Phipps, of Evesham, and Mrs. W. J. Weaver, of Bromsgrove, and two sons, Mr. Ralph Edwards, of Droitwich and Mr. Osmond Edwards, of Fownhope, Hereford. One daughter died in infancy, and her eldest son, Bert, died several years ago.

A joint memorial service for Mrs. Annie Elizabeth Edwards and her sister Mrs. Kate Spence will take place at St. Michael's church, Broadway on Wednesday.

Both Mrs. Edwards and Mrs. Spence were born at Broadway.

Certified Copy of an Entry

DEATH Entry No. 243

Bromsgrove

Bromsgrove and Redditch Hereford and Worcester

Date and Place of Death: Thirteenth July 1983, 208 Worcester Road, Bromsgrove

Name and surname: Ena Flora Weaver

Sex: Female

Maiden Surname of woman who has married: EDWARDS

Date and Place of birth: 6th August 1908, Redditch Worcestershire

Occupation and usual address: Wife of William John WEAVER, Building Business Consultant (retired), 208 Worcester Road Bromsgrove

Name and surname of informant: Roger Bailey WEAVER

Qualification: Son

Usual address: Pumphouse Farm Hanbury Droitwich

Cause of death: Ia) Carcinoma of Head of Pancreas, Certified by HM White MB

Signature: [RBWEAVER signature]

Date of registration: Fourteenth July 1983

Ena Flora Edwards Died 18th July 1983

Name: RALPH CLIFFORD EDWARDS

Death Registration Month/Year: 3/88

Age: 84

Birth Date: 17 NOV 1903

District: Worcester

Inferred County: Hereford and Worcester

Volume: 88

Page: 29

EDWARDS, Albert Clifford of Haverhsam Hse 327 Bromsgrove Rd Webheath Redditch Worcs died 31 August 1990 Administration Birmingham 1 March Not exceeding £115000

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