For those of you that don't know the main aim of Raspberry Iguana is to become an interior design company that also creates it's own homemade products too. So this left me quite intrigued to hear the story of my great great aunt, Edie or Edith. She was born in England and at some point moved to Calgary Canada. It was in Canada that she started her own interior design business.
Unfortunately at this stage I know very little about as my Nan can't remember any set dates of details that could help me trace her. All we really know is she moved to Canada in the early 1900's and would have been in her early twenties. My nan seems to think that she didn't stay long in Calgary and would of set up her business in a different city.
Edie would have been married at one point and had a son too. Tragically her son died when he was a teenager in a car accident yet we don't know his name or exact age. Her husband also died.
In the 1950's she came back to visit friends and family in London, once on her own and once with a new man friend. We think she came over on the Queen Mary but we are not sure and we think she may have travelled in her widowed married name but unfortunately we have no clues as to what this was.
When she died she left everything to my great grandad although he never travelled to Canada to settle her estate.
We (me and my family) have seem to have come to a bit of a dead end and are left wondering about her business and life in Canada and why she moved there in the first place.
I am calling all bloggers to get your ideas on how I can start to find her with so little information on her and her own immediate family. For me it is comforting to know that Edith managed to start her own business which I am assuming was successful enough to support herself, I just wish I could know more about her and her life in Canada. I also wish I could fill in the missing gaps for nan who unfortunately cannot remember.
Well even if this is as far as the search goes-here is a photo, at least we can put a face to the name.
