Edith Agnes Dengate
Edie Dengate, 1912
KEY DATES:
Birth: 6 June 1882, Hastings, East Sussex
Marriage: 25 December 1916, Holy Trinity Church, Hastings, East Sussex
Death: 22 January 1969, Hastings, East Sussex
Burial: Hastings, East Sussex
BIOGRAPHY:
Edith Agnes Dengate (known as Edie) was born 6 June 1882 in Hastings, East Sussex to Ernest Alfred and Agnes Lucy Dengate. The 1891 census shows Edith as an eight year-old living with her parents, brother and two sisters at 55 St George's Road, Hastings.
By 1901 the family have moved to 69 Manor Road, Hastings and Edith is working as a domestic servant.
Edith worked for a boarding house in Homesdale Gardens, Hastings, where she met her husband-to-be George James Mapplesden, a soldier who was billeted there with a few other soldiers. The couple married on Christmas Day, 1916 in Holy Trinity Church, Robertson Street, Hastings. They had one child, Marjorie Mapplesden, born 27 October 1922. George's occupation was a postman, then later a night cleaner at the Post Office.
Edie, May 1964
The family lived in several places in Hastings, including Manor Road, St Mary's Road, Ghyllside Drive and Stonefield Road.
Dengate sisters; (from left) Elsie, Ethel, Ada, Edie and Mabel
George Mapplesden died 13 January 1941 at Ghyllside Drive, Hastings, East Sussex and was buried in Hastings Cemetery. Edith Mapplesden died aged 86 on the 22 January 1969 at her daughter's home in Gosport. Her funeral occurred at the Salvation Army Citadel in Hastings with Brigadier A. Gosling of Portsmouth (previously of Hastings) officiating. She was buried in Hastings Cemetery.
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Grateful thanks to Marjorie Wenham for her help and memories.
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