Mrs Thomas Polwhele
(1807-1884)
20 September 1862

Volume 9, page 189, sitting number 11,754 .

Born on 22 June 1807, Edith Edgecumbe Hosken James was the daughter of John and Jane James.

She was baptised on 17 July 1810 at Truro in Cornwall. 

On 11 February 1830 at St Mary’s in Truro she married Thomas Polwhele, the second son of the Reverend Richard Polwhele of Polwhele in Cornwall. 

The couple appear on the 1861 census living at 3 Sydenham Villas in Cheltenham. 

She died, aged 75, at Tivoli Lodge in Cheltenham on 23 April 1884 (Royal Cornwall Gazette, 25 April 1884).