EDWARD McCONVEY
Born: 1919, Whitehaven, Cumberland.
Died: 30th June 1946; age: 26; died of Pulmonary Tuberculosis at the Foxhall Sanatorium, Suffolk.
Informant of the death – Mrs. Jean Doreen McConvey – widow.
Residence: 5, Hawke Road, Ipswich.
Occupation: a Farm Labourer.
Edward enlisted on the 15th December 1939. He was discharged on the 24th January 1946.
Rank: Gunner; Service Number: 955571.
Regiment: Royal Artillery, 51 Heavy Regiment.
Grave Reference:
Y.4.5.
Ipswich.
Relatives Notified & Address: Son of Edward & Burnette McConvey; husband of Jean Doreen McConvey, of Ipswich.
Father: Edward McConvey, born March 1893, in Whitehaven, Cumberland.
Mother: Burnette Silver McConvey (nee McCaughern), born January 1895, Whitehaven, Cumberland.
CENSUS
1921 5, Cummins Lane, Whitehaven, Cumberland.
Edward was 21 months old and lived with his parents and brothers.
Edward McConvey, 28 years & 4 months old, a Colliery Surface Forebearer for the Whitehaven Colliery Company Ltd. – William Pit, of Whitehaven.
Burnette McConvey, 26 years & 6 months old, Home Duties.
Alexander McConvey, 7 years & 9 months old, at School, born Whitehaven.
John McConvey, 4 years old, born Whitehaven.
In 1942, Ipswich, Edward married Jean Doreen Smith, born 6th November 1923, 57, Stoke Street, Ipswich – daughter of Sidney Ralph Smith, a journeyman wood sawyer – timber yard, and Ruth Jessie Agnes Smith (nee Webb), of 114, Bramford Lane, Ipswich.
Jean and Edward had one son:
David Edward McConvey, born in November 1945, in Ipswich.
Lancashire Evening Post – 21st December 1940
WHITEHAVEN SOLDIER’S RESCUE
A Whitehaven soldier, Driver Edward McConvey, aged 21, has rescued an evacuee boy from a perilous position on the cliffs at Ilfracombe.
The boy, Victor Smith, became stuck because the tide had come in.
McConvey was lowered on a rope and reached the boy in the nick of time for he was well nigh exhausted and would soon have slipped into the water.
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