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HARWIN, Emma
1877 - 1957 (79 years) Has 6 ancestors and one descendant in this family tree.
1843 - 1934 (91 years)-
Name HARWIN, Emma Birth 15 Aug 1877 Walsoken, Norfolk 
Gender Female Burial 1957 Birmingham, Warwickshire, England Death 5 Feb 1957 Birmingham, Warwickshire, England Person ID I499 Edgoose Last Modified 29 Jan 2026
Father HARWIN, Robert, b. 9 Dec 1843, Watlington, Norfolk, England d. 23 Dec 1934, Walsoken, Norfolk (Age 91 years) Mother FENDLEY, Alice, b. 3 Aug 1845, Watlington, Norfolk, England d. 21 Dec 1935, Walsoken, Norfolk (Age 90 years) Marriage 1 Nov 1867 Watlington, Norfolk, England Family ID F343 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family EDGOOSE, Frank William Dawson, b. 28 Feb 1882, West Walton, Norfolk d. 19 Dec 1951, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England (Age 69 years) Marriage 16 Apr 1906 Wisbech, Cambridgeshire Children 1. EDGOOSE, Doris Malisande, b. 26 Mar 1908, Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England d. 13 Dec 2003, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England (Age 95 years)Family ID F342 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
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Marriage - 16 Apr 1906 - Wisbech, Cambridgeshire 
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Biographies 
EDGOOSE, Emma born HARWIN (1877-1957)
NOTE: The vast majority of the information on the HARWIN ancestry of Doris Malisande EDGOOSE (1908-2003) has come from Rhys WHATMORE and his cousin Beryl Anne.
The birth of Emma HARWIN was registered in 1877. She was born at Walsoken, Norfolk, on 15 August 1877, daughter of Robert and Alice HARWIN formerly FENDLEY. Her father Robert HARWIN was described as a railway plate layer on her birth certificate.
(GRO 1877 September Q Wisbech 3b 608)
From the 1881 census of Crab Marsh, Walsoken, Norfolk:
Robert HARWIN, head, aged 36, platelayer, born at Watlington;
Alice HARWIN, wife, aged 35, born at Watlington;
Sarah HARWIN, daughter, aged 12, scholar, born at Walsoken;
Eliza HARWIN, daughter, aged 11, scholar, born at Walsoken;
*Emma HARWIN, daughter, aged 3, born at Walsoken;
Fred HARWIN, son, aged 1, born at Walsoken.
(RG11/1699/71/12)
From the 1891 census of Sutton Lane, Walsoken, Norfolk:
Robert HARWIN, head, married, aged 46, plate layer on railway, born at Watlington, Norfolk;
Alice HARWIN, wife, married, aged 45, born at Watlington, Norfolk;
Sarah J. HARWIN, daughter, aged 22, domestic servant, born at Walsoken, Norfolk;
*Emma HARWIN, daughter, aged 13, born at Walsoken, Norfolk;
Fred HARWIN, son, aged 11, born at Walsoken, Norfolk;
Charles HARWIN, son, aged 9, born at Walsoken, Norfolk;
Ada HARWIN, daughter, aged 7, born at Walsoken, Norfolk;
Ethel M. HARWIN, daughter, aged 3, born at Walsoken, Norfolk.
(RG12/1308/56/1 and 2)
According to an e-mail from her descendant Rhys David WHATMORE dated 26 November 2000 the HARWINs lived on the west bank of the river Nene at the Black Sluice Gatehouse almost opposite the Walton Dam Inn 'which I believe the EDGOOSE family ran and an adjacent house called Lyndhurst where they later lived'.
The 1901 census returns for Sutton Road, Walsoken, Norfolk:
Robert HARWIN, head, aged 55, foreman platelayer, born at Watlington, Norfolk;
Alice HARWIN, wife, aged 54, born at Watlington;
*Emma HARWIN, daughter, aged 22, born at Walsoken;
Ada HARWIN, daughter, aged 17, born at Walsoken;
Ethel HARWIN, daughter, aged 13, born at Walsoken.
(RG13/1559/18)
She married Frank William Dawson EDGOOSE at the Baptist Chapel, Upper Hill Street, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, on 16 April 1906. Frank William Dawson EDGOOSE was described as a 26 year old bachelor, a journeyman blacksmith, of 9 Oxford Terrace, Charles Street, Peterborough. Emma was a 27 year old spinster living near the Ferry Station, West of Nene, Walsoken. Witnesses were William BURBRIDGE (probably the W. B. who had married Emma HARWIN's sister Sarah Jane 1868-1944) and Ethel HARWIN (probably Emma's sister Ethel).
(GRO June Q 1906 Wisbech 3b 1312)
Her eldest sister was housekeeper to a French woman in London named Malisande, after whom their daughter Doris Malisande EDGOOSE was named in 1908.
The 1911 census of 109 Logan Street, Bulwell, Nottinghamshire:
Frank William Dawson EDGOOSE, head, aged 29, blacksmith in railway wagon works, born at West Walton, Norfolk;
*Emma EDGOOSE, wife, aged 33, married 5 years, 1 child 1 living, born at Walsoken, Norfolk;
Doris Malisande EDGOOSE, daughter, aged 3, born at Peterborough, Northamptonshire.
(RG14/20665)
From the 1939 Register of 38 Whitacre Road, Birmingham C.B., Warwickshire:
Frank EDGOOSE, born 28 February 1882, married, blacksmith drop forging
*Emma EDGOOSE, born 22 August 1879, married, unpaid domestic duties
Doris EDGOOSE, born 26 March 1908, single, cashier and wages clerk
(RG101/5568A/007/30)
Emma EDGOOSE died at 38 Whitacre Road, Small Heath, Birmingham on 5 February 1957 aged 79. She was described as the widow of Frank William EDGOOSE engineering blacksmith. The informant on 6 February 1957 was D. M. EDGOOSE of 38 Whitacre Road, Birmingham 9. Cause of death was I(a) Coronary Thrombosis I(b) Essential Hypertension.
(GRO March 1957 Birmingham 9c 343)
Emma EDGOOSE of 38 Whitacre-road, Birmingham 8, widow, died on 5 February 1957. Letters of Administration were granted at Birmingham on 7 March 1957 to Doris Malisande EDGOOSE, spinster. Effects amounted to
£ 375.17s.6d..
(National Probate Calendar 1957)
She was buried at Quinton Cemetery, Birmingham.
NOTES & QUERIES:
1. Cause of Death?
2. www.findmypast.co.uk has a reference to an Emma Edgoose contained in the Electoral Registers for Saltley in the Parliamentary Borough of Birmingham, Yardley Division of Autumn 1923. Archive reference SPR.Mic.P.227/BL.B.69.
Probably of no significance.
(revised 09.02.2026)