Brief Life History of Edith Caroline
When Edith Caroline Sawyer was born on 10 December 1902, in Edmonton, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, her father, Joseph Sawyer, was 43 and her mother, Mary Ann Sawyer, was 40. She married William Thornton in 1925, in Tottenham, London, England, United Kingdom. She lived in Tottenham, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom in 1911. She died about 1974, in Tottenham, London, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 73.
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- Edith Caroline Sawyer in household of Joseph Sawyer, "England and Wales Census, 1911"
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World Events (8)
1908
London, United Kingdom hosts Summer Olympic Games.
1915 · Zeppelins Over London
On May 31, 1915 a German zeppelin went over London in dark of night. It released a bomb over the city killing 28 people and wounding 60.
1921 · British Unemployment Reaches Post-War High
British unemployment reached a post-war high in July 1921 of 2.5 million people.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for someone who earned his living by sawing wood, from Middle English sauer(e), sauw(i)er, also sagh(i)er, sag(i)er ‘sawyer’, a derivative of Old English sagu ‘saw’.
Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname, or translation into English of Jewish Seger or some other surname meaning ‘sawyer’, e.g. German Sager and Slovenian Žagar (see Zagar ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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