"Her life has been full of sad and trying experiences. The young widow Elizabeth returned to her family in England to mourn, the family home then being 64 Dover Road, Folkestone. She worked in the uniform department of New York's Salvation Army.Įdward Nye, who by then worked as a night watchman, died aged 30 on he was buried in Kensico Cemetery. Edward and Elizabeth's only child, Maisie Elizabeth, was born in early 1906 but died after less than a year of life.Įlizabeth and Edward later left Britain and settled in New York around 1907 1 they appeared on the 1910 census as boarders at 62 Perry Street, Manhattan and Edward was described as a janitor and Elizabeth still as a dressmaker. 1880), a railway labourer originally from the village of Stone in Oxney, near Folkestone he was the son of shepherd William Dunsler Nye and his wife Ann Luckhurst. She was married on 26 December 1904 to Edward Ernest Nye (b. At the same address by the time of the following census in 1901, 18-year-old Elizabeth was by then a dressmaker.Įlizabeth went on to have a series of misfortunes an attack of appendicitis nearly ended her young life and then, her first sweetheart, an unidentified man, was killed when he was washed off the Folkestone Harbour Pier and drowned. By the time of the 1891 census 8-year-old schoolgirl Elizabeth was living with her family at 42 St John's Street in the same town. The year prior to Elizabeth's birth her parents and sister Amy were recorded on the 1881 census residing at 6 Folly Cottages, Folkestone. Left: Elizabeth (seated front) with her parents and siblings (1904). He married local girl Elizabeth Griffiths in 1877.Įlizabeth's siblings were: Frederick Thomas Ingram (1878-1879), Amy Elizabeth (1879-1881), Edith Amy (b. She was the third of seven and eldest surviving child of Thomas Ingram Ramell (1854-1915) and Elizabeth Ann Griffiths (1854-1947) her father was born in Lambeth, London and had come to Folkestone in the early 1870s where he began a career as a coach painter and also served as a Salvation Army bandsman. Below is the complete list of the fortunate first, second and third class passengers who survived the Titanic, and the number of lifeboat they escaped in.Mrs Elizabeth Nye was born in Folkestone, Kent, England on.
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