SHERMAN, Edwin James
Edwin James Sherman was born at 33 Charlotte Street, St Luke's, Clerkenwell, London on 13 December 1848, son of James Vinn Sherman, a beerhouse keeper, who was born at Kersey, Suffolk in 1824, and his wife Caroline née Brown, who married at Clerkenwell, London in 1846. In 1851, 27-year-old James and 23-year-old Caroline, were living at 6 Blackheath Hill, Greenwich with their two sons Edwin 2 and newly born John. Edwin married at Hackney, London in 1873, Eliza Jane Gooding (1849-1918) and they moved to Ipswich and in 1881, Edwin was an upholster, living at Beatrice Villa, Warwick Road, Ipswich with his 29-year-old wife Eliza and three children, Walter Edwin 7, Ada Millicent 5 and Cecil Arthur 3, who were all born at Ipswich. By 1891 they had moved to 97 Burrell Road, Ipswich and by 1901 had moved to Felixstowe, Suffolk. In 1911, a house furnisher, living at Bath Road, Felixstowe with his wife and 23-year-old unmarried daughter Elsie. A landscape and coastal scene painter in oil and a member of Ipswich Fine Art Club 1895-1901, exhibiting four works in 1895 'Suffolk Scene, Kersey', 'Bawdsey Ferry', 'Felixstowe Beach' and 'Dovercourt from the Sea'. Edwin James Sherman died at Garrison Lane, Felixstowe in 1924, aged 75.