Edwin Preece 1845 - 1922

Birth: 6 April 1845 Back Homend Ledbury Hereford

• Notes:
  • registered in Ledbury in 2nd Qtr 1845 -
  • GRO Ref Vol XXVI page 1_1 (Free BMD)
  • Informant Ann Preece, mother (formerly Owels) who could not sign her name.
• Source: Certificate held by Andrew Preece
  

Death: Q1 1922 Burton reg district, STS

• Source: GRO Index March 1922 Edwin Preece, age 76, Burton, 6b 543
  

Father: William Preece

Mother: Ann Howells

Siblings:

• William Preece 1842 - 1899
• Samuel Preece 1847 -
• John Preece 1849 - 1883
• George Preece 1851 -
• Samuel Preece 1854 - 1903
• Mary Ann Preece 1855 -
• Eliza Preece 1860 -

Wife: Sarah Slater

Marriage: 4 August, 1866 Burton-upon-Trent STS ENG

• Notes:
  • GRO Ref: 3 Q 1866 BURTON UPON TRENT 6b 462
  • Salem Chapel, Station Street, Burton-upon-Trent
  • According to the rites and ceremonies of the Particular Baptists
  • Edwin Preece, age 22 years, Bachelor, profession Joiner, Residence Derby Street, Burton-upon-Trent
  • Sarah Slater, age 21 years, Spinster, profession Milliner and dress-maker, residence Union Street, Burton-upon-Trent
  • Edwin's father: William Preece, Cooper
  • Sarah's father: Henry Slater (deceased), Tinman(?)
  • Witnesses Charles Sanders, Eliza Woodings
  • All signed
  • D.B. Joseph, Minister R.R. Bellamy, Registrar
  Note: Edwin is definitely only 21 here (from birth certificate). Possibly lying about age to help conceal a greater lie about Sarah's age, who from the 1881 census is only 18 or 19 at marriage (not 21 as stated).
  
• Source: Marriage entry copy held by Andrew Preece
  

Children:

• Mary Ann Preece 1867 -
• Charles Henry Preece 1869 - 1944
• Ada Preece 1871 -
• Florence Annie Preece 1873 -
• Edwin Preece 1878 -
• George Preece 1880 -
• Walter Raymond Preece 1882 -
• Arthur Harold Preece 1885 -

Note:

• Passed down family that be was Manager at Marmite Factory (verbal via Sarah Anne Ottewell). The first Marmite factory opened in Burton in 1902, when Edwin was 57.
• Newspaper report of his funeral implies he had worked most of his life at Charrington & Co - a brewery that became part of Bass. No mention of Marmite virtually every record gives his occupation as 'Joiner'.