Edmund
Pomfrey was born on 22nd June 1843 in Little Walsingham and was the
son of Robert Pomfrey (1816) and Mary Anne Rawston. In 1851 he was
aged 7, was at school and living in Guild Street, next to the Robin
Hood inn owned by his uncle, Richard Rawston. In 1861 he was aged
17, was working as a tailor like his father and was living in East
Street in Langham. He married Mary Timbers on 15th November 1865 at
Langham Church. He was probably living in Holt or Langham in 1867
and 1869. By 1871 he had moved to Lowestoft and, still working as
a tailor, was living at 91 London Road in Kirkley. In 1872 he started
work as a Post Office messenger on the Lowestoft to Pulton "beat".
In 1874 he was working as a "boy sorter" and graduated to
being a "letter carrier" or postman in 1875. He was living
at 4 North Raglan Street, Lowestoft, on 27th February 1877 and working
as an "Urban Postman". In 1881 he was aged 37 and living
at 2 County Villas in Lowestoft. In 1891 he had moved to 4 Sydney
Cottages in County Villas. He was living at 3 Pershore Place, Till
Road in Lowestoft from 1896 to 1900. He retired from the Post Office
service in 1900 on an annual pension of £37. 2s. 7d. By 1901
he was aged 58 and had moved to Victoria Terrace in Fakenham. He died
in Little Walsingham on 31st March 1911, aged 67. The cause of death
was uraemic coma brought on by retention of urine from a vesical tumour.
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