Miles, Miss Violet, Edgbaston, Coombe Road, Teignmouth
Violet Edith Miles[1] (1887 – 1954) was born on 26 May 1887 in St Andrew’s, Jamaica, the daughter of Alfred Henry Miles and Ada Eliza, formerly Anderson. It has not proved possible to identify much information about her background or her father’s occupation In 1911 Ada Miles, described as married and as having had four children, and Violet were living at Edgbaston, Coombe Road, Teignmouth, a seven -roomed house. They employed one live-in servant and stated under ‘occupation’ that they lived on private means and under nationality that they were ‘of British parentage’.
On 30 March 1911 a ‘Miss Mills’ of Edgbaston, Teignmouth is listed as secretary of the Teignmouth branch of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies.[2] Subsequent entries correct this to ‘Miss Miles’. The last reference to her as secretary is on 28 March 1912, and she was succeeded by Mary Clodd (q.v.).[3]
There is no evidence of any specific suffrage activity in which Miles was involved, and the next trace of her is on the 1939 Register, when she and her mother were living in Bournemouth. Violet Miles died on 4 Oct 1954 at 21 King’s Park, Road, Bournemouth, leaving over £31,000.
Entry created by Marilyn Smee, November 2018
[1] Family and census information from www.ancestry.co.uk
[2] Common Cause (CC), 30 Mar 1911.
[3] CC, 28 Mar 1912.