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Edith Emily Johnston
| Edith Emily Johnston |
|---|
| Born: 1881 Tow Law, Co. Durham |
| Died: 1945 |
| Father |
| George Johnston 1852-1927 |
| Mother |
| Emily Anna Smith 1855-1899 |
| Siblings |
| Margaret Nancy Isobel Johnston 1882- |
| Olive Georgina Johnston 1883-1896 |
| Evelyn Mary Seymour Johnston 1884- |
| George Ritchie Johnston 1885- |
| Eva E. Johnston 1889- |
| Spouse |
| Ralph Colin Gould 1877-1923 |
| Children |
| John Brookfield Gould 1908-1948 |
| Margaret Evelyn Gould 1911- |
Passport photograoh 1942
Edith Emily Johnston was born in 1881 at Tow Law in County Durham, daughter of George Johnston and his wife nee Emily Anna Smith. George Johnston was a medical doctor and surgeon, born in County Derry in Ireland in 1852.
In the early 1900s Edith Emily Johnston travelled to Malaya, where she was married on 3 August 1906 in Malacca to Ralph Colin Gould, who had gone to Malaya in 1905 to become Legal Advisor to the Administration of the Straits Settlements.
They settled in Malacca. Their town house was near the Straits Settlements Offices. They also had a weekend villa on the coast near a Government Rest House.
Edith Emily Gould
They had the following children:
John Brookfield Gould. He was born in Singapore in 1908. He served with the Johore Volunteer Engineers. During the Second World War he was captured by the Japanese, imprisoned in Changi, and forced to work on the Burma Railway. Further internment followed in Japan. After his release, John Brookfield Gould returned to England. In Sheffield he met Margery Welch at the home of Dr Carrick, the cousin of John Brookfield Gould. He sailed back to the Far East in 1946, and she followed later. They married in Malaya, probably at Malacca in 1946 or 1947. He died in 1948 in Malacca.
Margaret Evelyn Gould. She was born on 26 April 1911. In 1923 aged 12 she was sent back to Europe for her schooling at Sheffield High School and then attended Thildonck Convent in Belgium for her finishing school. She trained as a nurse at the Sheffield Royal Hospital and lodged with her aunt and uncle, Dora and Jack Carrick, who apparently became her guardians; holiday photographs show her teenage holidays at various seaside locations including Filey and Sutton-on-Sea at play with her Carrick cousins Jimmy and Mary. She never returned to Malaya, and nursed during the Second World war at Queen Mary's Hospital and worked at Carshalton in Surrey.
Edith Emily Gould died in 1945.
Her husband Ralph Colin Gould had predeceased her in 1923.
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