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Edith ASTON

Edith ASTON

Female 1873 - 1935  (61 years)


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  • Name Edith ASTON 
    Birth 10 Nov 1873  Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915
      Name: Edith Aston Registration Year: 1873 Registration Quarter: Oct-Nov-Dec
      Registration district: Bury St Edmunds
      Parishes for this Registration District: View Ecclesiastical Parishes associated with this Registration District
      Inferred County: Suffolk Volume: 4a Page: 495
    Gender Female 
    Census 1881  29 St Andrew St, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1891  Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1901  80 Hospital Rd, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • 1901 census for 80 Hospital Rd, Bury St Edmunds. House headed by John Ferguson, single, travelling draper includes:
      Sarah Nunn, servant, single, aged 70, housekeeper, born Chevington
      Edith Aston, visitor, single, aged 26, born Bury St Edmunds.
      NOTE: Edith Aston is Sarah's granddaughter, her mother Emily being Sarah's base child. Also note that Sarah is still single and gives her age as 70 even though she was born 1828. She is the only Sarah Nunn born Chevington around between 1825 and 1835.
    Census 1911  Rosetta Rd, Peebles, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1921  3a Leslie Place, St Bernard, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/
      FERGUSON, EDITH, year 1921, F, aged 46, ref 685/1 10/ 1, at ST BERNARD, MIDLOTHIAN
      1921 census for 3a Leslie Place, St Bernard, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
      John C. Ferguson, head, 42 years 6 months, male, married, born Peebles Manor, baker, J.W.Mackie & Sons, Baker's and Confectioners
      Gertrude Fergson, wife, aged 34 years 4 months, female, married, born Suffolk, Bury St Edmunds
      Thomas Ferguson, son, aged 5 years 1 month, male, born Peebles
      Gertrude Ferguson, dau, aged 3 years 4 months, femal, born Midlothian, Edinburgh
      John C. Ferguson, son, 2 years 2 months, male, born Midlothian, Edinburgh
      Edith Ferguson, sister*, aged 46 years 4 months, female, widow, born Suffolk, Bury St Edmunds
      *Should be sister-in-law as she is Gertrude's sister
    Burial Sep 1935  St Andrew's Cemetery, Peebles, Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • St. Andrew's Cemetery Peebles, Scottish Borders, Scotland
      This headstone was erected by John Ferguson in memory of Sarah Nunn for many years his faithful housekeeper, a native of Chevington, in the County of Suffolk, who died at Peebles, 17th May, 1911, aged 82 years.
      Also the above John Ferguson who died at Brier Bush, Peebles, 24th April 1913, aged 73 years.
      And his wife Edith Aston, who died at Peebles, 26th September 1935, aged 61 years.
    Death 26 Sep 1935  Nursing Home, Tweed Green, Peebles, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/
      FERGUSON, EDITH, aged 61, F, year 1935, ref 768 / 57, at PEEBLES
      1935 deaths in the district of Peebles
      No 57 Edith Ferguson, widow of John Ferguson, draper, retired, 25 Sep 1935 at 4.35pm at Nursing Home, Tweedgreen, Peebles (usual residence 4 Rosetta Rd, Peebles), female, 61 years, dau of William Aston, photographer, deceased, and Emily Aston, M.S.Nunn, deceased. Cause: Spinal metastasis following carcinoma of breast previously removed.
    Probate 14 Jan 1936  Peebles, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Scotland, National Probate Index (Calendar of Confirmations and Inventories), 1876-1936 for Edith Aston Ferguson
      FERGUSON, Edith Aston or, 4 Rosetta Road, Peebles, widow, died 25 September 1935 at Peebles, testate. Confirmation Peebles, 14 January, to William Sanderson and Anna Sanders, both of Glenmoy, March Street, Peebles, Executors. Will dated 6 December 1918 recorded Peebles 14 January 1936. Value of Estate, pounds 101: -: 9.
    _FGRAVE 164028088 
    Person ID I6391  Warren Nunn's family tree
    Last Modified 16 Apr 2024 

    Father William ASTON,   b. Abt 1832, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Nov 1888, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, UK Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 56 years) 
    Mother Emily NUNN,   b. 19 Feb 1850, Chevington, Suffolk, England, UK Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 May 1928, 4 Rosetta Rd, Peebles, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years) 
    Marriage 14 Nov 1869  St Mary, St Georges in the East, Middlesex, England, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • 1869 marriage solemnized at the parish church of St Mary, St Georges in the East, Middlesex.
      No 211, 14 Nov 1869, William Ashton, of full age, widower, photographer, of 11 Lucas St, son of James Ashton, farmer and Emily Nunn, of full age, spinster, of 11 Lucas St, dau of George Nunn, carpenter. Witnesses John Hillier, Emma Bedford Hillier.
      NOTE: There are some questions about details on this if this is the same couple who set up a photographic business in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. If so, William Ashton then dropped the "h" from his surname and becomes known as William Aston. Also note that Emily Nunn gives her father's name as George Nunn, carpenter, which is a puzzle because her mother was Sarah Nunn, daughter of Samuel Nunn and Susan Gilby. Emily is found with her grandfather Samuel Nunn on the 1851 census (along with her mother Sarah) and, on the 1871 census, Samuel Nunn is with her and William in Bury St Edmunds. As to Emily's parentage, it's possible she simply made up her father's name to avoid the shame that she was a base child. The other possibility is that a George Nunn was in fact her father. But the available records for Emily Nunn born 1850 in Chevington, or nearby, point to the fact that this Emily Nunn is the base child of Sarah Nunn.
      Another fact is that both woman died at the same address in Peebles, Scotland, Sarah aged 82 in 1911 and Emily aged 78 in 1928. On top of that, Sarah was housekeeper to John Ferguson, who was married to her granddaughter Edith Aston!
    Family ID F1904  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family John FERGUSON,   b. 22 Jul 1839, Stobo, Peebles, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Apr 1913, Brier Bush, Peebles, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years) 
    Marriage 24 Jul 1912  34 Chambers St, Edinburgh, England, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/
      FERGUSON, JOHN and ASTON, EDITH, in 1912, ref 685 / 4 / 597, at ST GILES

      1912 marriages in the district of Saint Giles, Edinburgh
      24 Jul 1912 at 34 Chambers St, Edinburgh by declaration in presence of Daniel Pickerill, draper, traveller and Emily Pickerill his wife.---
      John Ferguson, draper, retired, bachelor, aged 73, of 3 Crossland Crescent, Peebles, son of Robert Ferguson, hedger, deceased and Mary Ferguson, M.S.Duff, deceased
      and Edith Aston, spinster, aged 37, of Brier Bush, Crossland Crescent, Peebles, dau of William Aston, portrait and landscape artist deceased and Emily Aston, M.S.Nunn
    Family ID F1326  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Aug 2025 

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    Edith Ferguson, nee ASTON, on 1921 census
    Edith ASTON


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