Esther Emma Peadon

 

A small piece taken from my upcoming book - Bunston Family Revisited 

Esther was born in Lincoln around June, 1877.  She was just three years old at the time of the 1881 census.  At the time, she was living with her parents and sisters at 18 Stanley Street, St Botolph.

 Ten years later, Esther was now 13 and she worked as a domestic for her parents, helping her mother with the five younger children.  The family still lived in Stanley Street.  By 1901 Esther had moved out of her family home and the 22-year-old was now employed as a general servant for Frederick and Rebecca Belton.  They lived in Southport, Lancashire at 133 Duke Street.

 On September 20, 1909 Esther married John Wilfred Ardern at St Botolph’s Church.  John was born around January 1878 at Altrincham, Cheshire.  He was the son of Joseph Arden and Mary Jane Chandling.

 Before he married Esther, John worked as a butcher’s assistant lived with his parents and siblings at 55 Shakespeare Street, Southport.  This was only a few blocks away from where Esther lived and worked in Duke Street.

 John and Esther had at least one child together, a daughter named Dorothy.

 At the time of the 1911 census, John and Esther had been married for a year and their daughter was with them.  They lived at 99 Cemetery Road, Southport.  John was employed as a butcher’s foreman.

 John died at the Liverpool Stanley Hospital on October 28, 1936.  At the time of the 1939 register Esther was living alone at 189 Portland Street, Southport.  She was living on a widow’s pension.   Esther passed away 12 years after her husband on March 3, 1948 at the Southport Infirmary.  They are buried in the Duke Street Cemetery which is a stone’s throw away from where they lived and worked.

Esther's grandmother was Elizabeth Bunston who married Eli Peadon.