Elsie Katherine Wilson

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1939 "Dora Ruth Lane" born 1 June 1903 is living with them?

Waterbeach Road?

At 70 Ledgers Road.

She is a widow, a "shop assistant ladies outfitter". I'm assuming this is Nora Ruth.

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Mother
Lydia Rose Ann Custerson was bap. 7 July 1872 at Kingston Cambridgeshire daughter of Pain Custerson and Jane.

So that's where son Frederick got his middle name - spelled differently but sounds the same.

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Pain Custerson married Jane Rich 1852

children all registered  Caxton with mother's maiden name Rich

Israel 1852
Jane 1853  (on census she is Mary)
Tom 1856   death reg. 1856
Martha 1857
Ann 1859
Thomas 1861
Ruth 1863
David 1866
Lydia 1871*

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George Wilson 25 married Maria Baker age 20 on 15 April 1865

His father Henry
Her father Thomas

George Wilson was a Butler all his life.
Children
George 1866
Henry William 1868 (mostly goes by William)
Charles Frederick 1871*

Father George Wilson 1839 - 12 April 1893 Newspaper death states he was for many years Butler at Frank Towers, Eton College. He was buried 15th April.

Maria his wife 1845- 1921 buried 6 April address The Almshouses, Eton  age 76

[Nifty1]

My family have links with Eton.
My maternal great grandmother used to sell flowers to Eton scholars at Barnspool bridge in 1937.
I have a picture of her doing so.
Elsie Wilson used to be in service to one of the Master’s at  Eton.
I am not sure if this was a pupil or tutor.
Her son Peter Reynolds went to the Porny School.

[Nifty1]

On thé flower seller them there was also a Mrs. Kirtland who was pictured in one of the colledge papers selling flowers in the cloisters nearby. I think that this links back to the Kirtland's that had a shop in the Windsor Road at Slough in the late 1890s. Unfortunately I have lost the link to the paper with the picture and am rather confused as to why I canot relocate it.

I thought that the flowers came from Reading by rail but have since learned that they may have been grown at nurseries at Slough.

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