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Elsie March
Elsie March (1884, Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England – 1974, Kent, England) was an English sculptor and one of eight artists in her family. After the death of her brother Vernon March, she and her brothers completed the National War Memorial of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario. One of the family's three sculptors, her focus earlier in her career was metalwork and painting.
==Background==
Elsie March, daughter of George Henry March and his wife Elizabeth Blenkin,〔England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index: 1837–1915, for George Henry March and Elizabeth Blenkin〕 was born on 3 October 1884 in Kingston upon Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Her father was employed as a seed crusher foreman (oil miller) in Yorkshire.〔 The family moved by 1901 to Battersea, London, England, where her father worked as a builder's clerk. Elsie was the seventh of nine children, eight of whom became artists. Three of them were sculptors, Sydney, Elsie, and Vernon. The other five artist siblings were Edward, Percival, Frederick, Dudley, and Walter. The ninth sibling was her sister Eva Blenkin March. Both of their parents died in 1904.〔England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837–1915, for George Henry March〕〔England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837–1915, for Elizabeth March〕
By the 1911 census, all nine siblings, still single, were living together at the 17-room family home of Goddendene in Locksbottom, Farnborough, Kent, England. Only two of the March siblings married, producing three children between them. Elsie's sister Eva married Charles Francis Newman in 1916. They had one child, a daughter, Heather.〔England & Wales, Birth Index: 1916–2005 for Heather Newman〕 Her brother Frederick married a native of Scotland, Agnes Annie Gow, in 1926. They had two children, Elizabeth and Cecil.
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