Edward Richardson

Edward was the youngest son of Robert and Mary Richardson nee Wright. Robert was born in Warboys, Huntingdon, in about 1846, and Mary in Calverton, Nottinghamshire. They were married in April 1880 at St John Horsleydown, Southwark (London); Robert was 34 years old at the time of his marriage and both were living at Charles Street, Southwark. They had five children: Frances Mary b. Islington 1882 bap. December 1882, Islington St Mary, and Robert Ernest b. 1884 , Charles b. 1886, William W. birth registered 1888 (J/F/M) and Edward b. 9 November 1891 who were born in Lenton, Nottingham. In 1881 Robert (35) a portable engine driver, and Mary (30) were boarders in the household of Charles and Jane Sherwood of the Railway Inn, Bucknell, Radnorshire, Wales. They had moved to Nottingham by 1891 when they were living at 27 Park Street, Lenton. Robert was a stationery line driver. He and Mary now had four children, Frances (8), Robert (6), Charles (4) and William (2). Their fourth son, Edward, was born in November the same year. Robert and Mary were at the same address in 1901 and their five children were still living at home. Frances was a hosiery machinist, Robert was employed in a railway works, Charles was an errand boy while William and Edward (10) were at school. Edward joined the Royal Navy on 1 May 1908 at the age of 16. His sister Frances married William Henry Goodliffe, a hosiery manufacturer, in 1904. William was a widower. His wife Sarah Anne (nee Hind), whom he married in 1891, had died in 1903 at the age of 35 leaving him with seven children; Evelyn Bertha, Edith Annie, Winifred Gertrude, Ada Nellie, Doris May, Percy Innocent and Ernest (b. 1902). In 1911 Frances and her husband were living at 42 Cranmer Street, Nottingham, with his widowed mother, Anne Goodliffe, and his seven children; the three oldest girls were assisting in the business and the youngest four were still at school. Charles, a metal turner (lace machine) married Louisa K Rice in 1910 and in 1911 he and his wife were living with his parents, Robert and Mary, at 8 Grove Road, Lenton. His brother Robert a shunter (railway) was still living at home. The third son, William, has not yet been traced on the 1911 Census but it is probable that he married Margaret E Loveday in 1912. According to the notice of Edward's death in the local paper in 1918 his parents were still living at 8 Grove Road, Lenton, although his RN record gives his father's address as 88 Willoughby Street, New Lenton. Edward's father died at the age of 85 on 11 February 1931 and his mother Mary at the age of 81 on 18 April 1943.