EDWARD THOMAS CANHAM

Born: 16th January 1908, Ipswich.

Died: 7th February 1946; age 39; died of Haemoptysis and Pulmonary Tuberculosis, at the Ipswich Borough General Hospital, Ipswich.

The informant of the death was the sister-in-law and widow, Mrs. Lily May MacPherson (nee Beard), of 4, Hillside Crescent, Ipswich.

Residence: 4, Hillside Crescent, Ipswich.

Occupation: a General Labourer.

Rank: Gunner; Service Number: 1109744.

Regiment: Royal Artillery, 77 (The Duke of Lancaster’s Own Yeomanry), Medium Regiment.

Grave Reference:

L.L.6.44.

Ipswich Old Cemetery,

Ipswich.

Relatives Notified & Address: Son of George William Albert & Edith Ada Canham, of Ipswich; husband of Daisy Kate Canham, of Ipswich.

Brother-in-law to JAMES MacPHERSON.

CENSUS

1911   9, Little Baker Street, Ipswich.

Edward was 3 years old and living with his parents, brothers and cousin.

George William Albert Canham, 30, a Coal Porter – Merchants, born Ipswich.

Edith Ada Canham (nee Hammond), 30, born Stowmarket, Suffolk.

Albert Edward Canham, 10, born Ipswich.

Bertie William Canham, 8, born Ipswich.

Arthur George Canham, 5, born Ipswich.

Harold Canham, 8 months, born Ipswich.

Violet Woods, 19, a Cardboard Box maker – Factory, born Stowmarket.

1921   4, Little Baker Street, Ipswich.

Edward was 12 years and 6 months old. He attended School and lived with his parents and brothers.

George Canham, 44 years old, a Dock Labourer.

Edith Canham, 44 years old, Home Duties.

Bertie Canham, 18 years & 10 months old, a Tailor’s Assistant for J. J. Edwards – Tailors and Outfitters, of Tavern Street, Ipswich.

Arthur Canham, 15 years & 9 months old.

Harold Canham, 10 years & 8 months old, at School.

Leonard Charles Canham, 6 years old, at School, born Ipswich.

George Stanley Canham, 10 months old, born Ipswich.

In 1931, in Ipswich, Edward married Daisy Kate Beard, born March 1908, in Monmouthshire, Wales – daughter of Henry William Beard, a retired public works foreman, and Rose Jane Beard (nee Worth), of 9, Sturdee Avenue, Ipswich.

Daisy and Edward had seven children:

Pamela Joan Canham, born March 1932, Ipswich.

Valerie Edith Canham, born December 1933, Ipswich.

Stanley E. Canham, born 1935, Ipswich.

Shirley J. Canham, born 1938, Ipswich.

Janet J. Canham, born 1940, Ipswich.

Richard William Canham, born October 1943, Ipswich – died 2^nd January 1944, of pneumonia and influenza, at 4, Hillside Crescent, Ipswich, aged 3 months.

Pearl Hilda Canham, born 1946, Ipswich.

ENGLAND & WALES REGISTER 1939

Edward was a General Labourer. He and Daisy lived at their family home with three children – 4, Hillside Crescent, Ipswich.

Daisy, unpaid Domestic Duties.

Pamela.

Stanley.

Shirley.

Edward and Daisy’s daughter, Valerie, was a patient at the Isolation Hospital, Foxhall Road, Ipswich.