User:GhostInTheMachine/Drafts/Edith Cannon

Westcombe Dairy

https://westcombedairy.com/history

small mention

Neal's Yard

https://www.nealsyarddairy.co.uk/blogs/news/edith-cannon

Edith Jessie Cannon, born 16th September 1868 in Wincanton, was the eldest child of Henry and Emma Cannon. The family were tenant dairy farmers and often moved around Somerset and Dorset as a consequence. At the age of 12, Edith left school and began to work in the dairy with her mother, making cheese independently within a year. Winning several trophies, including the Silver Cup of the British Dairy Farmers’ Association in 1891, Edith went on to teach the Cannon method throughout the 1890s until her marriage to farmer Jesse Sage in 1900.

The pair went on to have a daughter and four sons, one of whom sadly died aged 12, and Edith continued to teach occasional students whilst her husband farmed. Jesse died in 1946 and, after a happy retirement, Edith died in 1963 at the age of 94.

References:

Bronwen & Francis Percival, Reinventing the Wheel (London: Bloomsbury, 2017) 261-280

Mary Vidal, Edith Cannon: Cheese-Maker (Somerset: Friends of the Abbey Barn, 1993)

James Thorburn, Mrs Sage (Portrait for Window on the West, 1955)

Cheese Underground

https://cheeseunderground.com/category/english-cheese/

Getting cheese just right is something Westcombe Dairy has been succeeding with for years. The company was launched in 1890 by Edith Cannon, whose traditional Cheddar was legendary in the region. In the early 1900s, records show a “Mr. and Mrs. Brickell” took over the farm and dairy, continuing to make cheddar.

Google books

https://books.google.com/books/about/Edith_Cannon_Cheese_Maker.html?id=a9zaAAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

Edith Cannon : Cheese Maker: Instructor at the Bath & West and Southern Counties Cheese-Making Schools, 1890-1900

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Edith Jessie Cannon (16 September 1868 – 1963) was the eldest child of Henry and Emma Cannon.

Cannon died in 1963.