Edwin Mole was born 1862 at Carlton BDF1862, son of Robert and Ann. He had two brothers, Walter and Arthur. In 1881 he was lodging with Mark Lilleyman, baker, at Wellingborough, probably as his apprentice.

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Edwin served from 1884-1896 with the Commissariat and Transport Corp were he probably was a Baker supplying soldiers.

In 1891 he was living in Beckenham, having married Eliza Clarke (born Towcester) at Bromley, Kent in 1890, with a two month old daughter, Ethel Ann. Elsie Mary was born the following year.

By 1898 they were in Rushden living at 3 Church Street, where Edwin opened a shop. Perhaps he had taken the bakery of Thomas Phillips who only appears in the 1894 trade directory in Church Street for that year.

Rushden Argus, 16th September 1898
Diploma award in his 1900 advert

In 1901 his widowed mother Ann (born c1834 Houghton Conquest) was also living with the family.

The advert in 1900 tells that he had gained a Diploma from the Master Bakers and Confectioners' Society, London. In 1898 he had advertised his shop adjoining the bakehouse.

In 1911 they are still at Church Street, and Eliza is helping in the bakery, Ethel is a dressmaker and Elsie is a milliner.

He was still here in 1914, and by 1918 he had moved to 227 Munition Cottages, Coventry, where Edwin was a labourer in the Munitions general store at Holbrook, Coventry.

Charles Hawes had taken over the bakery.