Edith Ada (Holt) Warren (1862 - 1940)

Born 1862 in Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia

Ancestors

Wife of Robert Wilson Warren — married 1884 in Victoria, Australia

Descendants

Died 18 Jul 1940 at about age 78 in Carlton North, Victoria, Australia

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Biography

Edith Ada Holt was born in 1862 to John Holt and Jane Morell in Fitzroy, Victoria

Before her marriage Ada was a tailoress.

Ada married Robert Wilson Warren in 1884^[1] Robert was a Labourer. They had ten children Reginald Wilson Warren, Ormond Morrell Warren , Lillian Warren, Glentine Maria Jane Warren , Robert Clyde, Stanley Gordon, Peter Herbert, John Harold, Alfred Francis, and William Henry.

Ada ’s niece Jean Baker has written of the Warren family in her memoir....

• Ada and Robert lived in Pigdon Street North Carlton in the 1920s and 30s. They were poor and must have lived on the meager aged pension which was 10s-£1 each, they lived in a single fronted cottage which was always scrupulously clean. Ada was very House proud even though she did not have much means. Ada had beautiful white hair which she liked to rinse with a Rickett’s Blue Bag she was a small woman like her mother Jane. Robert was a tall, heavily built man with thick white hair. They always called each other “Sweetheart” or “Darling”. There was always a lot of love in their house.They died three months apart in 1940 and the family felt Robert didn’t want to live without his wife.

• Four of Ada ’s sons served in WW1. Two died, one returned home wounded and the other psychologically damaged. She always attended the Anzac Parade sitting with the widows and mothers of those who lost their lives. She wore a long black dress with a cameo at the neck and grieved for her sons till she died. Her son Frank and his son also served in WW2 Ada died without knowing their fates.

Ada died in 1940 ^[2] She was surrounded by her loving family including her sister Mabel they sang “Abide with me” her favorite hymn, She was 78.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ BDM Victoria 1884 5970
2. ↑ BDM Victoria 1940 6715
3. ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/205171743

• BDM Victoria birth 1862 7718