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| Husband: | (unknown) | |
| Wife: | Edith Grace THORPE (1878- ) | |
| Children: | Arthur Edward THORPE (1902-1967) | |
| George Leornard THORPE (1905-1977) | ||
| Lilian G THORPE (1908-1996) | ||
| Edith Emily THORPE (1913-1924) | ||
| Name: | Edith Grace THORPE | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | Susanna (Ann) THORPE (1851-1922) | |
| Birth | 14 Feb 1878 | Kingsdown Kent |
| Occupation | Field worker/Rag cutter at Eynsford paper mill | |
Arthur Edward THORPE, Joe Thorpe
| Name: | Arthur Edward THORPE | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Spouse: | Hannah G JORDON (1902- ) | |
| Birth | 7 Jul 1902 | Shoreham, Kent |
| Romney Street | ||
| Occupation | Farm worker/Railway Sub Inspector | |
| Death | 14 Aug 1967 (age 65) | Brighton Isolation Hospital |
| Cause: Broncitus Address: Bevendean Road Died 6.15pm |
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| Cremation | 17 Aug 1967 | Brighton Downs Crematoriam |
| Bear Road | ||
| Name: | George Leornard THORPE | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Spouse 1: | Ena Gertrude THEOBALD (1907-1946) | |
| Spouse 2: | Doris Margorie KITO (1901- ) | |
| Birth | 25 Sep 1905 | Sevenoakes (Shoreham,) Kent |
| Occupation | Cowman | |
| Death | 1977 (age 71-72) | Jun Qtr, Dartford, Kent |
| Name: | Lilian G THORPE | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Spouse 1: | Henry J SLAMAKER (1908-1952) | |
| Spouse 2: | Peter ROGERSON ( - ) | |
| Birth | 18 Jan 1908 | Sevenoaks, Ide Hill, Kent |
| Death | 1996 (age 87-88) | Dec Qtr, Slough, Berkshire |
| Name: | Edith Emily THORPE | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 1913 | Dec Qtr, Dartford, Eynsford, Kent |
| Death | 6 May 1924 (age 10) | Tooting Grove, Tooting Graveney, London, SW17, |
| Cause: Conjenital Brain disease Address: Fountain Temporary Mental Hospital Death registered by mother Edith Thorpe of No 1 Malt Shovel Cottages, Eynsford, Kent. June Qtr, 1924 Wandsworth Vol 0 1D, page 511 |
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1901 census lshown living as Edith WRIGHTMAN with mother and Step father's family. 1911 at Kliln Cottages, Near Romney Street, Shoreham, Kent with Step father and family and own children. Status given as 'Single'. 1921 census living with mother, stepfather and her own children at Malt Shovel Cottages, Eynsford, Kent. Living at same address in May 1924 at death of daughter Edith.1939 Register living with married daughter Lilian and family at 19 Greatness Road, Sevenoaks, Kent. Possible death December Qtr, 1957 Surrey. S.E. or December Qtr, 1960 Bromley or March Qtr, 1969 Maidenhead.
Rag-cutting was always carried out in a separate part of a mill, and was mainly the work of women, aged from fifteen or sixteen years upwards, though a few boys might also take part. Some people might work for decades as rag-cutters, particularly those in rural districts, presumably for lack of other employment opportunities:
"The rag-cutters work for the most part in a large room or rooms, which of course vary much in their size relatively to the number of occupants, and vary much in their ventilation, in their other arrangements, and generally in their suitability for the purposes to which they are applied. They are always dusty, and always have a more or less musty if not more offensive smell. They generally, however, appear to me to be fairly ventilated.
Each rag-cutter, while at work, stands at a board with a knife fixed in it in front of her vertically, with the cutting edge forwards, provided on the one hand with an adequate supply of rags, and on the other with a kind of bin furnished with compartments, into one or other of which she throws, according to their character, the rags as she cuts them". Dr John Syer Bristowe (1827-95)
1911 census living at Kiln Cottages, Shoreham, Kent. 1921 census living with mother and three siblings at Malt Shovel Cottages, Eynsford, Kent, working for Mr W. Alexander a Dairy Farmer. Long service with Southern Railway installing & maintaining electic third rail system.
Later life lived with Whipp family at 16 Buckingham Road, Brighton.