Edith Helen Secchi (nee West). She was born about 1879 in Manchester (or thereabouts). She lived with her parents William, high bailiff c court (crown court?) born about 1843 at Manchester, and Mary, born about 1853 at Manchester, at Clothorn Road in Didsbury, Chorlton, in 1901. Her parents were probably the William West and Mary Jane Morgan who had married in the third quarter of 1877 in the Chorlton district of Lancashire. In 1901, she did not seem to have had any particular occupation. She had a brother, William, 21, and a sister, Gladys, 19. There were two visitors in the household; Maggie Cochran, 26, and Olive Morgan, 6. There was also a servant in the household, Ann Jenkins, 31, indicating that the family was relatively well off. Her husband Herbert Secchi was an insurance clerk in 1901 and in 1911 a shipping buyer/clerk in ”calico driut” (?). She married Herbert Secchi (b. 6 April 1884 at Liverpool) in Christ Church, Didsbury, Lancashire, 7 May, 1910. She had left Liverpool, England, 9 April 1913 on the Carmania, and was bound for 162 West 80th Street in New York City where her husband Herbert lived. She was 5’9’’ tall, had red hair and grey eyes. Her cabin companions on the Lusitania were Mrs. Booth-Jones and her two children. Mrs. Secchi survived the Lusitania disaster. She divorced her husband in 1920, and he seems to have been married to an American lady in 1930; Alice C. Secchi. Edith Secchi died 10 April 1939 in Southport, Lancashire, and was buried at Birkdale cemetery.
’’MRS. SECCHI WINS DIVORCE
Mrs. Edith Helen Secchi, of 115 Herkimer st., was today awarded a decree of divorce from her husband, Herbert Secchi, export manager of the American Woolen Products Co., and $50 a week alimony. Witnesses testified that they found Secchi with a strange woman in a Manhattan hotel. The divorce papers were served on him at the Hotel McAlpin.’’ (The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 6 July 1920, p. 2)
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