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Edward, "Ted" was born in May 1875, the son of Edward Wakefield and Agnes Mildred "Aggie" Hall, at Timaru, New Zealand.
Ted came from a rather scandalous New Zealand background. His great grand uncle was the notorious Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the great Antipodean colonizer. Ted's mother, Aggie, set out on an affair with banker Edward Withers. After her divorce from Ted's father in August. 1886 Aggie married the banker. Ted had five siblings, including Agnes Milne Wakefield (Queenie), who died in 1956. Aggie had several more children by Banker Withers (who died in 1914). After the divorce Ted's father went to Wellington for two years, then to New York in 1890, then to Britain. He died in Richmond, Surrey, on August. 10, 1924. After India Ted and Annie Wakefield returned to Britain, |
and lived in Barnet, London. In 1913 they decided to move to the USA. Ted went over first, on the "New York", arriving in New York on July 13, 1913, and went straight to the Automobile Club of America, on 54th and 55th Streets, just west of Broadway, where he stayed while fixing things up. On February. 10, 1914 Annie arrived in New York on the "Minneapolis", and they moved into their new house at 16 Curtis Place, New Brighton, Staten Island. In 1919 Annie returned to the U.K., then back to New York on the "Adriatic", arriving on November. 23, 1919. In 1921 Ted went over to the U.KO., returning to New York on November. 21, 1921, on the "Aquitania". He and Annie were now living at 21 Pelton Avenue, Staten Island. Ted made the trip again in 1924, arriving back in New York on September. 12, 1924, again on the "Aquitania". Edward died 6 April 1930.
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Annie was born on 27 July 1858, the daughter of George Gordon Gerard Wedderburn and Caroline Dixon, at Gibraltar.
Annie lived at home until her mother died in 1899. She then sold the house at Penywern Road and moved into 19 Philbeach Gardens, just around the corner in Earls's Court, with her cousin May Dixon. The two ladies owned a high-class florist business in Kensington (the Duchess of Norfolk was one of their clients). Annie was a little thing, only 5 foot tall, but she was a spitfire, very pretty with dark hair and blue eyes, and the dark complexion she inherited from her Corfiote grandmother. Ted Wakefield, a railroad engineer and surveyor, walked into the shop one day. He was little too, 5 foot 6, and like Annie had dark hair and a dark complexion. But he had brown eyes. At that stage he was living at 10 Normand Mansions, Kensington. He and Annie got married, and they went off to India. After Ted died, Annie bought Hespera Cottage in |
Storrington, Sussex, from Miss Maud Petre, for 550 pounds. Edith Curtis, an Ipswich lady, came to live with her as a companion. Hespera Cottage was a four-bedroom house with a drawing-room, dining-room and scullery, and a garden in the back. Annie lived here until she died in 1943. Miss Curtis died of pernicious anemia in the last half of January. 1943, and it was decided to have Annie's favorite niece, Betty Stewart, come down from Scotland to live with her as her new companion, and Mrs Lodge was Annie's daily servant. Toward the end Annie, now white haired but still very pretty, was enfeebled by arthritis and had to use two canes to get around. She died in her sleep of kidney infection, aged almost 85.
Her will was drawn up on July 5, 1937, and proved in Llandudno on October. 6, 1943. Hespera Cottage went to Betty, who sold it on August. 13, 1947 to Minnie Nora Lily Turner. It is still there, in Storrington, a couple of owners later, but its name has been changed to something much more mundane. |
| Edward Geoffrey Howard St George Wakefield |
b: May 1875 Timaru, New Zealand son of Edward Wakefield and Agnes Mildred "Aggie" Hall |
| Annie Edith Webster-Wedderburn |
b: 27 Jul 1858 Gibraltar daughter of George Gordon Gerard Wedderburn and Caroline Dixon |
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21 Feb 1903 Edward Geoffrey Howard St George Wakefield Annie Edith Webster-Wedderburn |
| Edward Geoffrey Howard St George Wakefield |
Died 6 Apr 1930 Burial, Thakeman Cemetery, Sussex, Plot 249 |
| Annie Edith (Webster-Wedderburn) Wakefield |
Died 9 Jul 1943 Hespera Cottage, Storrington, Sussex Burial, 13 Jul 1943, Thakeman Cemetery, Sussex, Plot 249 |