Birth

Edith Harris Earle Field was born at West Rounton, Yorkshire, on 18 April 1862. She was the daughter of the rector, John Field, and his third wife, Elizabeth.

Hardington Rectory

In April 1881, the eighteen-year-old Edith was a teacher boarding at Hardington Rectory. She was the half-sister of Frances Peers Field, a governess at the Rectory in 1871.

Father’s death

Edith’s father, John, died at York on 31 July 1884, leaving his entire estate, valued at £2,899-17s-2d, to his wife.[1]

Emigration

Edith emigrated to Australia in December 1884. Four years later, in 1888, she married Percy Croysdill in Sydney. He was the son of Henry Croysdill, a public accountant, who, when he died in Islington, London, in 1876, left an estate valued at “under £4,000.”

Death

Percy died in 1916; Edith died on 1 December 1937.

References

[1] The will of Rev John Field, dated 13 May 1871, proved at the Principal Registry on 18 September 1884.