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Edith Elizabeth APPLETON O.B.E. R.R.C. This page last updated: 7 March 2011 |
Family photos and family tree
Here is a random collection of other family photographs which feature Edie, her brothers and sisters, nieces and their families as well as the family home, Buddlebrook, Brightstone, Isle of Wight from 1923 until Edie's brother Fred Appleton died around 1960.
The family home was originally in Sea Valley House, Golden Street, Deal in Kent. It was from here that Edward Appleton worked as a Trinity Pilot, escorting ships past the dangerous sands and shallows off the Kent coast. For pictures of the house at Deal see: http://www.edithappleton.org.uk/Deal/golden_street.asp.
Click here for an Appleton family tree. Latest update is December 2009.
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early in the 1890s. It shows Edward and Eliza Appleton
with nine of their eleven children. Their first child,
Percy (b.1864), died aged fifteen as the result of an accident.
One of the youngest children is missing; we think it is Taff
(Alfred b.1887). Compare this photo with the earlier formal
family portrait dated 1887 on
the homepage. The latter is clearly dated on the back so
this one above is probably about 5 or 6 years later. Back row: Lil (Leila b.1868), Ted (Edward b.1866), Min (Minnie b. 1869), Bud (Walter b.1875) and Edie (Edith b.1878) Sitting: Madge (Mabel b.1871), Edward (b.1831), Eliza (b.1842) Front row: Fred (Frederick b.1873); on father's lap probably Syd (Sydney b.1882), and Guy (b.1879) |
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Here's a delightful photo of many family members in and around a Morgan 3 wheeler. It must have been taken at Buddlebrook, Isle of Wight, in the early 1920s. At the front, sitting on the running board and holding a chicken, is Edie. At the wheel is sister Madge and behind her with the beard is Madge's husband, Percy Ledger. Percy's daughter (by his first marriage), Mabel, wears the hat and to the right of her are Edie’s older sisters Minnie and Lil. The car belonged to Mabel's second husband, Ian Kelway, the man with the hat. The two children are Liz on the bonnet of the car and Anne in the back - the children of Edie’s younger brother, Syd. |
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And this one, taken in 1947, shows
Piers
Stainforth helping his great aunt Edie in the garden at Buddlebrook. As he is proud to assert, "sixty years later, I am pleased to continue toiling in support of my Auntie"! |
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Jill
Stainforth at her home in Victoria, BC, Canada in August 2007 busy
transcribing her great aunt Edie's diaries. Note the pdf of a scanned page of the original handwritten diary (emailed by cousin Dick Robinson from England) hanging on the washing line! |
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Buddlebrook some time in the late 1920s, probably. Lil (Leila Appleton 1868-1953) is on the far side of the gate and Edie (Edith Elizabeth Appleton 1877-1958, married John Bonsor Ledger in 1926) on this side |
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Appleton brothers and sisters and nieces at Buddlebrook, Brighstone, Isle of Wight in the mid 1920s Sydney
Appleton (1882-1963) on the left; Rev. Fred Appleton
(1873-1960?, married Celia Richardson) in the white coat or
smock - or is it the local butcher! |
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| About 1926 Edie and Lil at Buddlebrook. This picture was provided by Shirley Gudex and was taken by her mother, Julia, who married Edie's brother Guy. |
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At Buddlebrook in about 1934 Syd,
Edie
and John "Jack" Ledger (with pipe) |
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Early
1940s perhaps, taken at Newport IoW |
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Buddlebrook - June 1946. The Robinsons (Terence ('Robbie'), Elizabeth ('Liz') and their two children Dick(ie) and Rosemary) had recently arrived from the United States and before that from Trinidad, West Indies. They stayed with the Appletons for a few months until they were able to buy a house in Oxted, Surrey. |
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In
large garden at Buddlebrook in July 1946 Edie with Dick (Richard Robinson, born 1941) and his sister, Rosie (Rosemary 1944-1994, married David Conran-Smith 1970), in the barrow. The garden was very large and productive with fruit trees and vegetables as well as lots of chickens. Liz, Dick and Rosie's mother, remembered a 'pet' trout, Algernon, in the brook at the bottom of the garden. |
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Buddlebrook 20 June 1952 Lil, Fred, and Edie with Charles Stainforth (1915-2002) in the back row. In the front, Anne with her - and Charles' - two children Piers (born 1944) and Jill (born 1948) |
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Buddlebrook 11 July 1954 Rosie, Edie, Fred, Liz and Dick |
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Since Edie's generation there have been a further four or five generations. If you are a relative and unsure where you fit in, or just someone who wants to see how the Appleton tree has grown, this is the place for you. Click here to see the tree. Be warned - it's rather long!
If there are any mistakes or you have information about further branches, twigs even, let us know via the Visitor's Book. If you have a lot of information to add or to correct just leave a brief note in the Visitors Book and we will email you back so you can send attachments, etc. via email.
Click
here for postcard images of General Hospital No. 3 in which Edie was
stationed from June 1918:
it was
located in the Trianon Hotel on the cliff above
Le Tréport