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HARWIN, Elsie Eileen
1915 - 2005 (89 years) Has 8 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
1879 - 1948 (68 years)-
Name HARWIN, Elsie Eileen Birth 9 May 1915 Sheffield Registration District, Yorkshire, England 
Gender Female Death 1 Jan 2005 Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England Person ID I9550 Edgoose Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
Father HARWIN, Fred, b. 12 Dec 1879, Walsoken, Norfolk d. 16 Jun 1948, Sheffield, Yorkshire (Age 68 years) Relationship natural Mother ADAMS, Gertrude Elizabeth, b. 21 May 1882, Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England d. 6 Mar 1964, Fir Vale, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England (Age 81 years) Relationship natural Marriage 1913 Peterborough Registration District, Northamptonshire Family ID F973 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family WHATMORE, Eric, b. 23 Feb 1914, Sheffield, Yorkshire d. 10 Mar 2003, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales (Age 89 years) Family ID F3234 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
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ELSIE EILEEN WHATMORE nee HARWIN 1915-2005
Elsie Eileen WHATMORE was born on 9 May 1915 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, the only child of Fred and Gertrude HARWIN. According to the registration of her death in 2015, she was born on 9 May 1915.
(GRO June Q 1915 [ADAMS] Sheffield 9C 1188)
Fred was a railway engine driver and the family lived in Fir Vale, in the north eastern part of the city.
After leaving school, Elsie trained to be a primary school teacher at Hockerill College, Bishop's Stortford. She taught at Greystones School and at Carlisle Street School in Sheffield. During the War she gave up teaching and worked as a clerk at Firth Brown's Steel Works.
She married Eric WHATMORE at Brightside Church, Sheffield, on 16 September 1939.
(GRO September Q 1939 Sheffield 9C 1111)
Elsie had known Eric since she was sixteen and they were together until his death in 2003. They had one child, Rhys David WHATMORE, in 1947.
In 1953 Elsie moved with her family to Aberystwyth and from 1954 until 2003 lived at Tanyfron, Llanbadarn Fawr. She was very active in the community and was a member of the WRVS, the Women's Institute, the Mother's Union, and the Community Assocciation. She was very good at calligraphy and for some fifty years her posters advertising local events were to be seen around the village. She helped organise horticultural shows, carnivals, and eisteddfodau. For a time Elsie worked as Assistant Cook at Cwmpadarn School.
(Source: Letter from rhys@dwhatmore.freeserve.co.uk circa 2005)
She died at Shrewsbury, Shropshire, on 1 January 2005.
(GRO March Q 2005 Shrewsbury 7151A/A69A/006/0105)