Sidney George Edwards b. 24 Apr 1887 Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England d. May 1968 Bulawayo, Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe

1887 - 1968 (81 years)

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Name	Sidney George Edwards
Birth	24 Apr 1887	Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England
	Births, Marriages and Deaths Indexes record birth Quarter 3 1885. April 1887 could Christening date.
Gender	Male
Residence	1891
	Address: 25, Chandos Road, Tunbridge, Tunbridge Wells
Emigration	1 Jul 1927	Ship: "Carnarvon Castle", Union - Castle Mail S. S. Co. Ltd
	Embarked Port of Southampton for Cape, South Africa: Edwards, Mr S G: Engineer Mrs E K; Mast. P J; Mast F V.
Military service	2 Apr 1911 (Census)	WOODBRIDGE, Suffolk
	Sidney George Edwards Sapper Age 24 Royal Engineers Reference RG14PN10884 RD214 SD2 ED16 SN9999
Death	May 1968	Bulawayo, Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe
Person ID	I00061	Vine and Taylor Families, Aotearoa New Zealand
Last Modified	26 May 2017

Father	Francis Lewis Edwards, b. 5 Oct 1856, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England d. 26 Aug 1925, Dartford (Reg District), Kent, England (Age 68 years)
Mother	Ellen Drayson Knowler, b. Jun 1851, Maidstone, Kent, England d. 21 Jan 1943, Carlisle, Cumberland, England (Age ~ 91 years)
Marriage	Jan 1880	Croydon, Surrey, England [1]
Family ID	F00030	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1 Emma Katherine Lepp, b. 31 Aug 1882, Liverpool, England

Marriage Yes, date unknown

Patricia Vredenbreght in a letter penned c1990 (http://genealogy.bobvine.gen.nz/documents/PatsLetter5pages.pdf) states: "There was a lot of scandle (sic) when Sydney married in East Africa. I destroyed the paper and cuttings about it when I cleared things after my parents passed on as I told Uncle Edgaronly innocent people (namely the children) could be hurt by it".
Further controversy surrounds Sydney'd third marriage to Winifred Carola Elizabeth Noel in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia on 26 November 1959. "Chongololo2011" in a note to me via Ancestry.com states: "With regards 'scandal' we would only know as/if it related to his late life marriage to my ggm. My mother does remember him , and she says at the time her father and mother tried to "talk" Winifred Carola out of getting married, but she was 'determined' to. Not sure what happened to him other than possible date of passing in the late 1960s in Bulawayo."

Children

	1. Joseph Peter Anthony Edwards, b. Rhodesia
	2. Francis Victor Peter Edwards, b. 21 April1923, Rhodesia d. 20 Nov 2019, Margate, Kent, England

Family ID F00034 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 13 Jan 2013

Family 2	Winifred Carola Elizabeth Noel
Marriage	26 Nov 1959	St Marys Cathedral, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia
	Patricia Vredenbreght in a letter penned c1990 (http://genealogy.bobvine.gen.nz/documents/PatsLetter5pages.pdf) states: "There was a lot of scandle (sic) when Sydney married in East Africa. I destroyed the paper and cuttings about it when I cleared things after my parents passed on as I told Uncle Edgaronly innocent people (namely the children) could be hurt by it". Further controversy surrounds Sydney'd third marriage to Winifred Carola Elizabeth Noel in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia on 26 November 1959. "Chongololo2011" in a note to me via Ancestry.com states: "With regards 'scandal' we would only know as/if it related to his late life marriage to my ggm. My mother does remember him , and she says at the time her father and mother tried to "talk" Winifred Carola out of getting married, but she was 'determined' to. Not sure what happened to him other than possible date of passing in the late 1960s in Bulawayo."
Family ID	F715	Group Sheet \| Family Chart
Last Modified	13 Jan 2013

Sources
[S172] FreeBMD. England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index, 1837-1915 [database on-line]., Vol 2a, Page 319, Vol 23 Page 33. (Reliability: 3).
Croydon District