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Edward Rayment Chairman of the Canvey Island Urban District Council
Edward Rayment, Chairman of Canvey Island Urban District Council during WWII, was born in West Ham in 1889. He was the son of Walter Rayment and Eleanor Holman. In 1908, as an 18 year old lad who was keen on the latest and fast developing invention-the motor car-opened a small garage on Romford Road, Forest Gate near Green Street. Instead of going into his father's building business, a firm responsible for a great many buildings in East Ham, he decided to become a pioneer in motor engineering. By hard work and initiative, such as the introduction of the first petrol pump to the area, he built up his one-man business to become the largest of its kind in the district, E Rayment Ltd.
Edward and Constance Rayment
Edward at his bar in the Wagon and Horses PH
Exchange of plaques on the balcony of the Council Offices, Long Road, Canvey.
Rayment Avenue off Maurice Road
The Rayment Family Generation One
1. John RAYMENT, b. 1834 in not known. He married Mary ?, b. 1834 in East Ham, Essex. Children: i. Fanny RAYMENT, b. 1858 in East Ham, Essex. 2. ii. Walter RAYMENT b. 1861. iii. Henry RAYMENT, b. 1864 in East Ham, Essex. iv. Arthur RAYMENT, b. 1867 in East Ham, Essex.
Generation Two
2. Walter RAYMENT, b. 1861 in Chadwell Heath, Essex, d. Mar qtr 1939 in East Ham District, Essex, resided 1871 in High Street, East Ham, Essex, resided 1881 in 16 Priory Terrace, East Ham, Essex, resided 1891-1896 in Edith Villa, Plashet Lane, East Ham, Essex, resided 1901 in 171 (plus 173 Stables) Plashet Lane, East Ham, Essex, resided 1911 in 440 Central Park Road, East Ham, Essex, occupation 1871 Agricultural Labourer, occupation 1881 Builders Labourer, occupation 1896 Bricklayer, occupation 1891-1901 Builder, occupation 1911 Bricklayer. He married Eleanor Harriett HOLMAN, Jun qtr 1880 in Poplar District, Middlesex, b. 1861 in Dalston, London (daughter of Wainford HOLMAN and Harriet Leslie HARRIDEN), d. Dec qtr 1922 in West Ham District, Essex. Children: i. Walter RAYMENT, b. Jun qtr 1886 in West Ham District, Essex, d. Sept qtr 1886 in West Ham District, Essex. 3. ii. Edward RAYMENT b. Sept qtr 1889. iii. May Harriett RAYMENT, b. 6 Dec 1894 in East Ham, Essex, baptized 2 Mar 1896 in St Paul, Shadwell, Tower Hamlets, Middlesex.
Generation Three
3. Edward RAYMENT, also known as Walter, b. Sept qtr 1889 in West Ham, Essex, d. Jun qtr 1954 in Forest Gate, Essex, buried in He was interred at Woodgrange Park Cemetery after a service at All Saints Church., resided 1891 in Edith Villa, Plashet Lane, East Ham, Essex, resided 1901 in 171 (plus 173 Stables) Plashet Lane, East Ham, Essex, resided 1911 in 432 Central Park Road, East Ham, Essex, resided 1935 in 340 Romford Road, Forest Gate,London E.7, occupation 1911 Insurance Agent. He married (1) Caroline Theresa KLAGEMANN, 2 Oct 1910 in St Bartholomews, East Ham, Essex, b. Septr 1887 in St Georges in the East Middlesex (daughter of Fritz KLAGEMANN and Eliza Louisa HERBURG), d. 5 Jan 1935 in " Brookside" Barley Lane, Chadwell Heath, Ilford, Essex. He married (2) Constance BENNETT, Sept qtr 1935 in West Ham District, Essex, b. 7 Oct 1904, d. Dec 1996 in Southend District, Essex. Children: i. Lilian Louise Florence RAYMENT, b. Jun qtr 1912 in West Ham District, Essex. She married George F GILBERT, Mar qtr 1939 in West Ham District, Essex. ii. Walter RAYMENT, b. Dec qtr 1914 in West Ham District, Essex, d. Jun qtr 1961 in West Ham District, Essex. iii. Robert RAYMENT, b. Jun qtr 1916 in West Ham, Essex, d. Dec 1991 in Depwade, Norfolk. iv. May RAYMENT, b. Mar qtr 1919 in West Ham District, Essex. v. Edward RAYMENT, b. Mar qtr 1919 in West Ham District, Essex. vi. Caroline Margaret RAYMENT, b. Dec qtr 1923 in West Ham District, Essex. She married ? BULL, b. in USA.
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Edward Rayment |
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After the death of his first wife Caroline he married Constance Bennett and it was with Constance that he retired early to Canvey Island leaving his sons, Robert and Edward to carry on the business. We do not know the exact year he came to Canvey but it is understood that he was the Chairman of the Council for five years during the Second World War.
We do know for certain that when Canvey Islanders were awarded the War Ship Week Plaque in 1943 he was the Chairman mentioned in newspaper articles and on the Civic Ceremony Dinner Menu.
(More can be read about the War Ship Week here) We also know he was living in a property in Promenade Road, Canvey Island in 1942 when his phone number was Canvey Island 154. It is also known that a road was named after him, Rayment Avenue, a turning off Maurice Road, which appears on maps in the 1950’s. |
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During his time as Chairman of the Island Council he helped in planning the Thames invasion defences. He was also Justice of the Peace on the Southend Bench but he longed to return to Forest Gate, where he had been a Special Police Inspector for 15 years, to look after the business again because his sons were in the armed forces.
He died in 1954 and interned at Woodford Park Cemetery. |