Edith Leah Nora Ansell
1915–2010 (Age 96)
Estonia
The Life of Edith Leah Nora
When Edith Leah Nora Ansell was born in 1915, in Estonia, her father, Leonard Joseph Ansell, was 26 and her mother, Edith Annie Harris, was 29. She married William Overthrow in 1936, in Shardlow, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom. She died on 13 December 2010, in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 95.
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Family Time Line
Edith Leah Nora Ansell
1915–2010
William Overthrow
–
Marriage: 1936
Spouse & Children
1915–2010Female
- William Overthrow
–Male
MARRIAGE
1936
Shardlow, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom
1936
Shardlow, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom
Parents & Siblings
1889–1967Male
- Edith Annie Harris
1886–1959Female
siblings
(3)
1912–1994Female
1915–2010Female
- Leonard Geoffrey Ansell
1920–Male
World Events (8)
1918
Age 3
WWI ends in November with armistice. The number of UK war dead runs to several hundred thousand.
1921 · British Unemployment Reaches Post-War High
Age 6
British unemployment reached a post-war high in July 1921 of 2.5 million people.
1940
Age 25
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister. British fighter pilots repel German air attacks in the Battle of Britain. London and other cities badly damaged in German bombing raids.
Name Meaning
1 English and German: from a vernacular form of the personal name Anselmus ( see Anselm ).2 Swedish: compound name composed of an unexplained first element (perhaps part of a place name) + the common surname ending -ell, which is from the Latin adjectival ending -elius.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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