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Personal data Edith May Whitcombe 

  • She was born on May 8, 1918 in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales.
    Name: Edith M Witcombe
    Registration Date: Apr 1918
    Registration Quarter: Apr-May-Jun
    Registration District: Newport M
    Inferred County: Wales
    Mother's Maiden Name: Thomas
    Volume Number: 11a
    Page Number: 540
  • Resident in the year 1939: 106 Commercial Street, Risca, Monmouthshire, Wales.
    Name: Edith M Whitcombe [Edith M Broder] Gender: Female Marital Status: Single Birth Date: 8 May 1918 Residence Year: 1939 Address: 106 Commercial St. Residence Place: Risca, Monmouthshire, Wales Occupation: Demestic Servant
    Line Number: 25 Schedule Number: 249 Sub Schedule Number: 8 Enumeration District: XOUN Borough: Risca
    Registration district: 587 A/2 Household Members Age Noel N Wade 63 Dorothy C Wade 50 Elizabeth Pritchard
    42 Ruth N Macleod 26 Roger N Wade. 21 Edith M Whitcombe 21 Michael T 19
  • She died on 2ND Q 1975 in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, she was 56 years old.
    First name(s) EDITH MAY Last name BRODER Gender Female Birth day 8 Birth month 5 Birth year 1918 Age - Death quarter 2 Death year 1975 District Newport (Monmouthshire)
    County Monmouthshire Volume 28 Page 0378 Country Wales Record set England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007

    Name: Edith May Broder Death Age: 56 Birth Date: 8 May 1918 Registration Date: Apr 1975 Registration Quarter: Apr-May-Jun Registration District: Newport Inferred County: Gwent Volume: 28 Page: 0378
  • This information was last updated on December 26, 2020.

Household of Edith May Whitcombe

She is married to Albert Edward Broder.

They got married on 2ND Q 1947 at Caerleon, Monmouthshire, Wales, she was 28 years old.

First name(s) ALBERT E
Last name BRODER
Marriage quarter 2
Marriage year 1947
Registration month -
MarriageFinder™ ALBERT E BRODER married
Edith M Witcombe
Spouse's last name Witcombe
District Caerleon
District number -
County Monmouthshire
Country Wales
Volume 8C
Page 447

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Historical events

Birthday May 8, 1918

  • The temperature on May 8, 1918 was between 7.3 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 12.8 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1918: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
    • February 5 » SSTuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.
    • April 1 » The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
    • May 2 » General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
    • May 16 » The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government during wartime an imprisonable offense. It will be repealed less than two years later.
    • June 8 » A solar eclipse is observed at Baker City, Oregon by scientists and an artist hired by the United States Navy.
    • July 4 » Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date).


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