Mary Emma Emily Edith May (Williams) Freeman (1893-1966)

Mary Emma Emily Edith May (Edith) Freeman formerly Williams aka Earl

Born 25 May 1893 in Foxton, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand

Ancestors

Daughter of [father unknown] and Mary Ann (Williams) Town

Sister of Hilda Rebecca (Town) Hughes [half], Robert Henry (Town) Towns [half] and William George (Town) Towns [half]

Wife of William Edward John Earl — married 14 Mar 1913 in Dunedin, New Zealand

Wife of Samuel Freeman — married 5 Jan 1931 in Ohakune, New Zealand

Descendants

Mother of Edward Henry Earl and Jessie Edith Mary (Earl) Anderson

Died 8 Dec 1966 at age 73 in Wellington Hospital, Wellington, North Island, New Zealand

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Biography

Edith was born in 1893. She was the daughter of Mary Williams and Unknown father.

At the age of 20 She married William Edward John Earl on 14 March 1913 in Dunedin.

They had two children;

Edward Henry (b. 1913, d. 1971)
Jessie Edith (b. 1915, d. 1939)

In the 1914 Electoral Roll Edith and William were living at 26 Blacks Road, NE Valley, Dunedin.

In 1917 her husband was recorded in the World War I Reserves as a woodcutter living in Burn Street, Ohakune. Mystery surrounds what happened to William after this date. His mail was redirected to his parents address in Aongatete in the Bay of Plenty, and he was apparently never heard from again. He may have moved to Australia, or changed his name.

Edith appears in the 1928 Electoral Roll as married and living at Duncan Street, Raetihi.

She married, secondly, Samuel Freeman in 1931.

Tragically her only daughter Jessie passed away in 1939 at the age of 25.

Her husband Samuel died in January 1960.

She passed away on 8 December 1966 at the age of 73 in Wellington Hospital and was cremated on 10 December 1966 at Wellington Crematorium, Wellington. On 12 April 1967 her ashes were interred at Raetihi Cemetery with her daughter Jessie (Row 20, Plot 5).

Sources

NZ BDM Birth Records Online: Registration No: 1893/6790 | Family Name: Williams | Given Name(s): Mary Emma Emily Edith May | Parents: Mary Ann & NR | https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/

NZ BDM Marriage Records Online: Registration No: 1913/821 | Bride's Given Name(s): Mary Emily Edith | Bride's Family Name: Williams | Groom's Given Name(s): William Edward John | Groom's Family Name: Earl | https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/

NZ BDM Marriage Records Online: Registration No: 1931/2791 | Bride's Given Name(s): Edith May | Bride's Family Name: Earl | Groom's Given Name(s): Samuel | Groom's Family Name: Freeman | https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/

Wellington Cemetery Online Database [[1]]

https://www.ruapehudc.govt.nz/our-services/cemeteries/online-cemetery-search/Pages/default.aspx?surname=freeman&forename=emily

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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Edith by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Edith: