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Edward William Jones b 24 May 1896 d 12 January 1965			Madeleine Eugenie Marie Quevilly b 2 July 1901 d May 1983
Married - 22 May 1920 Ferme Park Baptist Chapel, Hornsey, Middlesex and 26 June 1920 Commune de Coulogne, Pas de Calais. French Marriage Certificate

Child:

Edward and son Robert

Edward was born on 24 May 1896 in Plaistow to William Edward Jones and Bessie Lloyd. Certificate of Birth. He was a Rifleman in the 6th London Regiment and saw active service in France from February 1915 to November 1917 (Victory Cross and 15 Star). He was discharged from the army as medically unfit from his injuries with orders to proceed to his home at42 Chestnut Avenue, Crouch End on 17 April 1918.

Edward and his family have been identified on the following census entry:

Presumably Edward met Madeleine during his service in France and they married two years after he was discharged from the army when he worked in the travel industry.

Madeleine was born on 2nd July 1901 to Eugenie Charles Auguste Quevilly and Josephine Elise Tirard. Act de Naissance. The declaration of birth to the Mairie in Coulogne was witnessed by Jules Ducrocq (aged 38) and Joseph Joly (aged 32). Nothing is known of her early years but many photographs exist which suggest she may have had sisters and certainly an extended family in the Calais area.

They married in Hornsey, Middlesex on 22 May 1920 and the marriage was witnessed by W Jones (Edward's father, William) and E Othen (presumed to be William Edward Othen, the husband of Edward's Aunt Emily Othen nee Jones). As can be seen from the wedding invitation, Madeleine's mother was present at the wedding. They married again in France on 26th June 1920.

Edward and Madeleine lived in Coulogne, Pas de Calais and in Rue des Foinettes, Calais. By 1939 they were living at 3 Rue Jean Soules, Nogent Sur Marne, Paris where Edward worked for Kodak Pathe(tbc). Following the German occupation of France the family made their way to Bordeux (June 1940) and from there to Lys, near Pau. Madeline was extremely photogenic as can be seen from the photo on her Carte D'Identite issued on 23 August 1940 at le Maire de Lys when she was aged 39. (Note the false date of birth.) On 20th January 1944 Edward joined the Federation Interalliee des Anciens Combattants in Paris and his membership book contains many details of his involvement in WW1. Edward was interned by the Germans from 28 February 1944 to 25 August 1944 in St Denis (Seine).
Carte D'Identite
Internierungslager

Madeleine and Edward disapproved of their son's marriage and never recognised their daughter in-law or grandchildren and contact between them and their son was extremely rare. On 12th January 1965 Edward died at the Hotel Dieu, Paris, six months after the death of their son Robert. He is buried in Coulogne, Pas de Calais. As French inheritance law does not allow descendants to be disinherited, Madeleine contacted an English solicitor in June 1965 and obtained a sworn affidavit which ensured that Edward's estate be passed solely to Madeleine on the basis that they had married and lived in England under English laws!

Madeleine continued to live a solitary and reclusive life in Nogent sur Marne until the age of eighty-one when the authorities discovered her death and contact with her grandchild in England was made. It was estimated that she had been dead for six weeks before being found. She was buried in Nogent sur Marne.