Edna Buxton

Edna May Buxton
née Cooke
Born	1905 Maesteg, Glamorgan, Wales
Died	1969-04-10
Father	John Cooke
Mother	Rose Cooke
Partner	Ronald Buxton
Siblings	Ernie Cooke Eva Bate Irene Ogden Lucy Currie Rosalind Foot

Edna May Buxton (nee Cooke) (1905 - 10 April 1969) was a Winnipeg woman and Welsh immigrant.

Early life

Edna was born in Wales in 1905 to John Cooke and Rose Cooke, the second of six children.

Following the October 1913 Senghenydd colliery disaster, she moved with her family at age 8 to Transcona, Manitoba, which later became a suburb of Winnipeg, in Canada.

Marriage and children

Edna married Ronald Buxton (1902 - 1958) and had two daughters, who they raised in Winnipeg:

• Vivian Mary (Shannon) (8 October 1929 - )
• Elizabeth May "Betty" Buxton (1 April 1936 - 1 November 2023)

Sources

[1] Email from Vivian Shannon, 2020