[PW] Ethel Reed Redux

[Dennis Lien]

The fulltext historic TIMES OF LONDON db (which you may have checked
already) has only one hit for an "Ethel May Reed," and it's unlikely
to be your person.  She is listed as the surviving widow of Charles
Edward Batey, former printer to the University of Oxford, in Batey's
obituary in the 20 October 1981 TIMES, page 16.

The last lines of the obit are:

He is survived by his widow, nee Ethel May Reed, whom he married
in 1922.  They had one daughter.

If this was the same Reed, (a) she was 107 at Beatty's death and
(b) she had married a man nineteen years younger than herself, when
she was 48, and subsequently they had a daughter.  Exceedingly
improbable, so I'm listing mostly as a "here's another one of
that name that must not be the one sought" sort of thing.

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.edu




>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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