Killed as a result of a 13 October 1944 air raid on Coronation Avenue.
Jane Edith Wilson was born on 15 May 1880 in Hoxton, Middlesex (now Greater London), one of the seven children of Edward Wilson (b.1842) and Elizabeth Wilson née Farr. Her birth was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1880 in the Shoreditch Registration District, Middlesex (now Greater London). On 4 July 1880 she was baptised at St John the Baptist Church, Hoxton, where her date of birth is confirmed in the baptismal register and that her family were living at 53 Great James Street, Shoreditch, Middlesex (now Greater London) and that her father was shown as a chair maker. (Great James Street is now renamed as Purcell Street).
In the 1881 census she is shown as Jane Wilson, aged 11 months, living at 53 Great James Street, Shoreditch, with her parents and four siblings: Edward E. Wilson, aged 15 years; John Wilson, aged 10 years and a scholar: Sarah Elizabeth Wilson, aged 6 years and a scholar and William Wilson, aged 4 years. Her father was still described as a cabinet maker.
When the 1891 census was undertaken she was shown as Jane Wilson, aged 10 years, still residing at 53 Great James Street, Shoreditch, with her parents and three siblings: Sarah Wilson, aged 15 years and a fancy trimmer; William Wilson, aged 13 years and Walter Abraham Wilson (1882-1940), aged 8 years. Her father was again described as a chair maker.
She was listed in the 1901 census as Jane Wilson, aged 20 years and a cardboard box maker, still residing at 53 Great James Street, Shoreditch with her parents and three of her siblings: Sarah Wilson - a millineress (infants); William Wilson - an engineer's labourer and Walter Wilson - an oilman's assistant. Her father was still described as a chair maker.
On the night of the 1911 census she was listed as Jane Edith Wilson, aged 30 years, single, a cardboard box maker and a visitor, together with her sister Sarah Elizabeth Wilson, at the home of Charles Henry Farr and his wife Sarah Stella Farr, an eight roomed property at 'Lyndhurst' 33 Park Avenue North, Hornsey, Middlesex (now Greater London).
Electoral registers from 1929 to 1939 list her at 20 Geldeston Road, Stamford Hill, Hackney, London. The 1939 England and Wales Register confirms that she was still residing at 20 Geldeston Road, that her date of birth was 11 May 1880 and that she was a cinema cashier.
She died, aged 60 years, on 13 October 1940, but her death was not registered until the 1st quarter of 1941 in the Stoke Newington Registration District, London. Probate records state:- 'WILSON Jane Edith of 20 Geldeston road Hackney London spinster died through war operations on 13 October 1940 at 157-161 Stoke Newington-road Stoke Newington London Administration Llandudno 30 April 1940 to William Wilson oil and colourman. Effects £150-0s-9d'. (William Wilson was her brother).
On the Civilian War Dead Roll of Honour 1939-1945 that is held in Westminster Abbey, London, she is recorded as:- 'WILSON, JANE EDITH, aged 60 years; of 20 Geldeston Road, Hackney. Daughter of the late Edward and Elizabeth Wilson. 13 October 1940, at 157/161 Stoke Newington Road.
She is shown as JANE EDITH WILSON on the Stoke Newington civilian war memorial and is also commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website.
Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.
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