“Many happy returns of the day,” December 9 1930

Now this is another of those birthday cards from earlier on in the last century.

It was sent by Nellie to Edith in the December of 1930, and I think I may have found Edith in the census records.

In the same collection of cards is one to Edith on her 21st sent in 1920 which means that she was born in 1899 and there is an Edith on the 1911 census living in Birkenhead.

Here she is listed as the step daughter of Thomas Aldred along with her sister and brother and four half sisters.

Tracking the family back her mother married her father in 1893.
He was Miles H Parkinson, a postman who died in 1903.

Two years later Rose Parkinson remarried and by 1911 had had four more children.

And that for the time being is all there is, but there will be more.
Edith was still unmarried at 31 and it may be possible to turn up her life after 1911.

We shall see.

Picture; courtesy of Suzanne Moorehead