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William and Mary Jane Tidd Family Introduction
William and Mary Jane Tidd Family
William Tidd (1862-1947) was born in the Clerkenwell area of London in 1862. His mother was Ann Tidd (1830-1909) and his father is unidentified. Times were difficult for the family in London, since they found themselves in the St Pancras Workhouse when William just one year old. A move out of London to Faversham, Kent, marked an improvement for the family by the time William was 9 years old.
Mary Jane Finch was born 26 February 1888, in Faversham, Kent, to John Austen Finch (1835-1909), a railroad man, and his wife Susanna (1836-1872)
William Tidd and Mary Jane Finch were married in spring 1888 in Dover, Kent. They lived for many years in Ash-next-Sandwich, Kent, where William worked as a market gardener and, for a time, as keeper of the Good Intent Inn. Mary Jane also operated a tearoom there.
William and Mary Jane Tidd had five children – four daughters and one son: Ethel Mabel (1887-1960), Edith Mary (1888-1964), Lillian Elizabeth Mary (1897-1969), William Austen Finch (1899-1975), Florence Emily (1901-1976)
1910s
Edith married soldier Stan Jackson in May 1918, about the time he was discharged from the British Army, having been wounded and gassed in Belgium during the First World War. Jackson died in 1920, leaving Edith a widow. She lived in Bath, Somerset, for many years, keeping a rooming house with a woman named Lilian Duck.
William and Mary Jane
Probaby Ash, Kent, circa 1919
