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Edith Clarissa Davies was born in May 1875, the youngest of three sisters and the one that saw the early death of her husband at a point where she had had three children by him.
Edith initially became a Hoole resident when the family moved back to live in Hamilton Street in 1895. She went onto marry Henry Gordon Leete, a Chartered Accountant, at [[All Saints Church]], Hoole in June 1903. They left to set up home in South Africa, where two of her children were born, and then moved on to New York in 1908, where their third child was born. With the outbreak of The Great War Edith moved with her children back to Hoole, to live with Charles and Martha in Hamilton Street, whilst Henry Leete remained in New York. It was there he tragically died after an accident involving a tram on December 20, 1918.
With her husband’s death, Edith was left needing to provide for her family and so went to work as a teacher in 1918, taking a position at the British School, Victoria Road, Chester. She was to become the headmistress before she retired in 1930, Charles and Martha stepped in to support the upbringing of her children during this difficult period. Her children moved to Oaklands, with Charles and Martha, and Edith was still living there in 1935/6. It seems she only left there in 1947, when she and her daughter, Muriel, and granddaughter Jennifer, went to live in Ashbourne, in Derbyshire and it was there that Edith died in February 1950, aged seventy-four.
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