Edith Mary Peden (1879 - 1976)

Born Oct 1879 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Died 1976 at about age 96 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

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Biography

Edith was born in Edinburgh in 1879, eldest daughter and second child of Alexander Peden and Edith Good. She grew up in the family home at Morningside, Edinburgh.^[1][2]

She did not marry and lived in Edinburgh all her life, firstly with her widowed mother, and later with her younger sister Elinor after she too was widowed.

She died in Edinburgh in 1976 at the age of 96, the longest-surviving of her siblings, and her name is recorded on a separate marker at the Peden family grave in Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ "Scotland Census, 1881", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMXN-WR3 : 15 April 2022), Edith M Peden in entry for Alexander Peden, 1881.
2. ↑ "Scotland Census, 1891," , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KSFH-JVC : 28 May 2022), Edith M Peden in household of Alexander Peden, Newington, Midlothian, Scotland; from "1891 England, Scotland & Wales census," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing p. 1, GRO6/275, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey; FHL microfilm 220,402.
3. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/228974612/edith-m-peden), memorial page for Edith M. Peden (1880–1976), Find a Grave Memorial ID 228974612, citing Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland; Maintained by Thomas Hunter Brown (contributor 48776195).