Louisa Knights Skillings
Born & baptised 30 September 1818 Edgefield, Norfolk
Eldest daughter of Edmund Skillings & Elizabeth nee Knights
son Edmund b 1840, birth recorded as Edwards
son James b 1847
married John Edwards in the WEsleyan Church, Holt 13 August 1848 (after his first wife died)
died 11 September 1883 in a marl pit near Edgefield. The inquest came to no decision as to whether she drowned accidentally or commited suicide.
Apart from 1841 where she is a farm worker away from home (baby left with her parents), is in Edgefield on all of the censuses.
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