Edmondson Genealogy

Bessie Edmondson was born 26 June 1890 in Derby at 10 Rosehill St, Derby, parents George Edmondson and Maria Dudden.
She was baptised 17 Aug 1890 at St Thomas, Derby.
The family moved to 41 Middleton St in 1904.
After leaving school, she was employed at the Royal Crown Derby Porcelain company, hand-painting pottery. Her graduation work was a Royal Crown Derby plate, which I still have, a picture of which has been included in the gallery.
She became quite involved in Church work at St Thomas', Derby, including Sunday School teaching. It was there that she met my grandfather, Harry Lomas , who was a tenor in the choir. They married 17 June 1914 at St Thomas' Parish Church, and then lived most of her life at 82 Pear Tree St, Derby, where I and my brother Ken, were both born .
Writing in 1981, my father Walter Lomas wrote of his mother: "A gentle, 'saintly' person who spent a lifetime at the beck and call of and caring for others. Even at Middleton St. (which she may have considered to have been as happy a period as any), she was expected to be the general help. After marriage she had to move in with a rather domineering mother-in-law who made life unpleasant, especially after the birth of her first child Bep. She had a nervous breakdown whilst carrying me. Even after the death in 1922 of her mother-in-law, things were never easy as money was in very short supply, and she still had to go regularly to help out at Middleton St. She did everything possible and more for her own family and I feel that it is a matter of great regret that she never had the chance to taste the more material pleasures of life (even though she herself may never have considered such things important). She certainly got a lot of pleasure in having Alan (Bep's husband) and my wife Muriel as part of the family and even more so when the 3 grandchildren came along. In later life she suffered from diabetes and died 18 October 1966 at 65 Milldale Road, Long Eaton. I am glad that on the day after her death, I went to look at her in Long Eaton mortuary, and her face had a serene peacefulness that I had not seen for many a year. Although it is now 15 years later, this memory, thankfully, never fades".
Writing now in 2016, some 50 years after her death, I remember her well, she was a fundamental part of my teenage years. When she contracted diabetes, my grandparents had to leave Pear Tree St in 1961, and lived partly with us and partly with Bep and Alan, so she lived through the 60s revolution with us. I can remember her saying in 1963 that she had been born too soon!
She died at 65 Milldale Rd, Long Eaton, 18 October 1966, her funeral was held at St Thomas's Church, Derby, Friday 21 October 1966, prior to cremation at Markeaton Crematorium, Derby.