The Edwards
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| Norwich Cathedral |
Our story of known history begins in Norwich, England. Norwich is an ancient settlement of the Britannic tribes stretching back to the Iron Age and the Pre-Roman era.
John Edwards and Sarah Mason had a son, Robert Edwards, born about 1788. The first record of the Edwards surname is in 1218 in Suffolk county, just to the south of Norfolk. We know that Robert worked as a carpenter and he and his wife, Elizabeth had one daughter and three sons. The first born, Elizabeth Louisa, was baptized in St Martin at Oak parish church on May 9, 1841.
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| Elizabeth Louisa Edwards' baptismal record |
The three boys followed: Robert, Walter, and Arthur.
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| Norwich, Norfolk Census 1851 |
George Pyne was born in 1838 to Isaac Pyne and Elizabeth Wright in London, 100 or so miles from Norwich. The Pyne name is Anglo-Saxon in origin, from the word for the Pine tree. George married Elizabeth Edwards in 1857 in Norwich. Their first daughter Maria "Minnie" Pyne was born that same year. The family moved to London and they lived in the parish of St. Leonard's.
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| St. Leonard's parish church, London |
Four more children followed: Bishiah, Emma, William, and Sarah, the youngest, was born in 1869. The 1871 London census below shows George is working as a shoemaker. At this time, they were getting ready to move to America.
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| London census, 1871 |
Back in Norwich, Robert died in 1865 having lived a long life of 77 years. In 1871, Elizabeth was living as an Annuitant with her son Arthur who was a Dealer in Fish.
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| Norwich census, 1871 |
In London, George and Elizabeth Pyne decided to emigrate to America and they left Liverpool with their five children and landed in Baltimore in September 1871.
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| Ship manifest, Sept 1871 |
They made their way to Chicago and two more children were born, Arthur and Eva. George found work right away as a shoemaker as listed in this city directory from 1877.
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| Chicago City Directory, 1877 |
In 1875, Minnie Pyne, the eldest daughter, married Phillip Caspar Becthloff, now known as Casper. In this 1880 census, Casper and Minnie Bechtloff lived at 3539 Butterfield (The interactive maps by David Ramsey are outstanding.) and their daughter Lizzie was two months old.
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| Minne Pyne Bechtloff |
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| Chicago in 1880, Butterfield just west of Dearborn |
Elizabeth Pyne passed away in 1908 and George passed away in 1912. They are both buried in Oakwoods Cemetery. Oakwoods is famous as the final resting place for the Confederate soldiers who died at Camp Douglas.
Their residence at time of passing was 6558 Lafflin Street in Chicago. Built in 1890, the home still stands.
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| 6558 S. Lafflin, Chicago |
Minnie's brothers and sisters married and also stayed close by. Bethia married Albert Andres and remained in the house on Lafflin as did her daughter, Alice. Her son, Edwin Robson, became a Federal Judge appointed by Eisenhower and is buried in Trinity United Methodist Church in Wilmette.
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| The Pyne Family Tree |
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