[PW] Ethel Reed Redux

[Mary Lou White]

Donna,
I checked the UK National Archives records, and she shows up in WWI Airwomen's
records, http://tinyurl.com/3cvlue.
One record is for an Ethel May Reed; the other one has a different service
number, and is for an Ethel Reed.
					Mary Lou White


On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Donna Halper wrote:

> So before I submit my update to the Grove Encyclopaedia of Art, has
> anything new come out about the late great poster artist Ethel
> Reed?  When last we spoke about her, I had uncovered lots of
> information about her life in the USA prior to her trip to England,
> and the last mention I found was on the British census of 1901, which
> said that she and her son (no father of the baby is listed-- the son
> is listed as Antony Reed) were living in London.
>
> We established that she was not the Ethel Reed who died in 1910.  We
> established that she seems to have remained in the UK, and we
> established a few other things, but this story still has no end-- as
> in, I need a reliable date of death.  Have any other British
> documents come out since the 1901 census?   Ethel May Reed was born
> in Newburyport MA on 13 March 1874.   Her parents were Edgar Eugene
> Reed and Mary Elizabeth (Mahoney) Reed.   They seem to have split up
> circa 1890, and Edgar died very young, several years later.  I
> checked the cemetary records in Newburyport and Franklin (the two
> towns where Edgar worked as a photographer) and neither his wife nor
> his daughter are buried there.  (He was buried in Newburyport
> MA.)  Mary Elizabeth seems to have returned to Ireland (she was from
> County Cork) but the trail goes cold for both her and Ethel after 1901.
>
>
> Donna L. Halper, Journalism Dept. Emerson College Boston MA
>
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