Nat Gould

Edith Mary Adams 1880-1952

Edith Mary Adams was born in 1880 at New Mills in Derbyshire, the daughter of James Adams 1843-1886 and his wife née Mary Ellen Middleton 1848-1926. She was the twin sister of John William Adams 1880-1909.

In 1881 she was an infant living at home with her parents at Stockport Road, Newtown, New Mills in Derbyshire. By 1891 her father had died, her mother had remarried, and she was living aged ten with her mother and twin brother at 9 New High Street, Fairfield, Buxton in Derbyshire.

When the 1901 Census was taken she was working aged 20 as a general domestic servant in the household of Joseph Skidmore, a hotel porter at 52 West Street in Buxton. By 1911 she was working as a general domestic servant in the household of Elizabeth Ann Curnock of Ryecroft, Manchester Road in Buxton.

In 1913 she was married to Gavin Watson McArthur at St. Peter's church in Faifield, Buxton. He was a tailor working at Buchannan's in Spring Gardens in Buxton, born in 1878 in Strathaven, Lanarkshire, Scotland. In the family he was known as Gavie (pronounced Guy).

They had a daughter Mary Elizabeth McArthur (born in Buxton in 1914) and a son Colin Alexander McArthur (born in Buxton in 1917).

Gavin McArthur was killed in action in the First World War. He never saw his son.

Edith Mary McArthur died in Buxton in 1952 aged 71 years.