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EDGOOSE, Mabel Margaret
1876 - 1914 (37 years) Has 50 ancestors and one descendant in this family tree.
1844 - 1927 (82 years)-
Name EDGOOSE, Mabel Margaret Birth 10 Sep 1876 West Walton, Norfolk 
Gender Female Burial 1914 Finchley, London, England Death 30 Jul 1914 University College Hospital, London Person ID I489 Edgoose Last Modified 3 Feb 2026
Father EDGOOSE, Stanton John, b. 14 May 1844, West Walton, Norfolk d. 19 Mar 1927, Walsoken, Norfolk (Age 82 years) Mother DAWSON, Margaret, b. 27 May 1851, Wisbech St. Peter, Cambridgeshire, England d. 2 Aug 1929, Walsoken, Norfolk (Age 78 years) Marriage 16 Jan 1872 St. Augustine, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire Family ID F228 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family REID, George, b. 10 Jun 1872, Cuminestown, Aberdeenshire, Scotland d. 1950, Newton Abbott, Devonshire, England (Age 77 years) Marriage 21 Aug 1906 Holy Cross Church, St. Pancras, London Children 1. REID, Athol George, b. 6 Apr 1908, Sidcup, Kent, England d. 6 Sep 1960, Sidcup Registration District, Kent, (Age 52 years)Family ID F329 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
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Birth - 10 Sep 1876 - West Walton, Norfolk 
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MABEL MARGARET REID formerly EDGOOSE 1876-1914
Mabel Margaret EDGOOSE was born at West Walton, Norfolk, on 10 September 1876, daughter of Stanton John
EDGOOSE, farmer, and his wife Margaret EDGOOSE formerly DAWSON. The informant was Stanton EDGOOSE, father, West Walton.
(GRO December Q 1876 [DAWSON] Wisbeach 03B 601)
(Birth Certificate)
Stanton John EDGOOSE had married Margaret DAWSON at Wisbech on 16 January 1872.
No trace of her baptism has yet been found.
According to the 1881 census returns for the Dam House, West Walton, she was 4 years old and living with her parents, two sisters and a brother:
In 1881 he was a 36 year old innkeeper living at the Dam House, West Walton:
Stanton EDGOOSE, head, aged 36, innkeeper, born at West Walton;
Margaret EDGOOSE, wife, aged 29, innkeeper's wife, born at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire;
Kate EDGOOSE, daughter, aged 6, scholar, born at West Walton;
*Mabel EDGOOSE, daughter, aged 4, born at West Walton;
Hilda EDGOOSE, daughter, aged 2, born at West Walton;
Stanton EDGOOSE, son, aged 9 months, born at West Walton;
Elizabeth PATTERSON, aged 15, domestic servant, born at Snettisham, Norfolk.
(RG11/1697/80/6)
At the time of the 1891 census she was visiting George and Emma HORRY at Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire:
George HORRY, head, aged 33, miller and baker, born at Holbeach, Lincolnshire;
Emma HORRY, wife, aged 34, born at Emneth, Norfolk;
Mildred HALL, niece, aged 16, born at West Walton, Norfolk;
Horace DESBROUGH, aged 12, nephew, born at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire;
*Mabel EDGOOSE, aged 14, visitor, born at West Walton;
James HOLMES, aged 12, an apprentice miller and baker, born at Pinchbeck.
(George HORRY was the son of Judith Lewin HORRY nee EDGOOSE).
(RG12/2559/42/4)
The 1901 census returns for West Walton, Norfolk (adjoining the Ferry Station?):
Stanton EDGOOSE, head, aged 56, market gardener,born at West Walton;
Margaret EDGOOSE, wife, aged 49, born at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire;
*Mabel EDGOOSE, daughter, aged 23, born at West Walton;
Bertha EDGOOSE, daughter, aged 13, born at West Walton;
Jessie EDGOOSE, daughter, aged 11, born at West Walton;
Bertie EDGOOSE, grandson, aged 7, born at West Walton.
(RG13/1557/54/6)
She married George REID at Holy Cross Church, St. Pancras, London, on 21 August 1906. She was described as a 29 year old spinster of 12 St. Andrews Mansions, Dorset Street, London W, daughter of Stanton John EDGOOSE, farmer. George REID was a 34 year old widower. a police constable, of 49 Tonbridge Houses, son of Peter REID deceased, a farm labourer. Witnesses were May Louisa JONES, Walter Herbert BURTON (1873-1953), and Jessie Alice EDGOOSE (1888-1956).
(GRO September Q 1906 Pancras 1b 185)
Her son Athol George REID was born in 1908.
(GRO June Q 1908 Pancras 1b 51)
The 1911 census of 49 Tonbridge House, Tonbridge Street, London W.C.:
George REID, head, aged 38, married, police sergeant (Metropolitan), born Monquhitter, Aberdeen;
*Mabel Margaret REID, wife, aged 34, married 4 years, 1 child (living), born West Walton, Norfolk;
Athol George REID, son, aged 2, born at St. Panceas, London.
(RG14/677)
Jessie KEYWORTH and Gladys SYLVESTER said that she died young and that her son Athol REID was brought up by his grandfather Stanton John EDGOOSE.
She died at University College Hospital on 30 July 1914 aged 37. Her address at the time was 10 Tonbridge Houses, Tonbridge Street, St. Pancras. George REID was a police sergeant.
(GRO 1914 September Q Pancras 1b 39)
She was buried in St. Pancras Church Ground, Finchley Cemetery. Her mourning card bore the verse:
A wife more true it was hard to find,
Loving home and children dearly,
To all she was both good and kind,
We shall miss her sincerely.
Athol REID lived at Fairfield, 13 Lyndon Avenue, Blackfen Road, Sidcup, Kent.
(revised 17.02.2019)