Daisy Blanche Murch
was born in late 1892 in Greinton, Somerset, England. The youngest
girl of six children, she can be found on the 1901 census, living with
all her siblings, her parents (Albert Charles Murch and Ellen Harrington
Murch) and her maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Wood, in Greinton.
Her father, Albert Charles, was a farmer from Chilton Polden, also in
Somerset. Her mother, Ellen, was the only 'foreigner', having been born
in Tiverton, Devon. Also in the house were a visitor, Charlotte
Salter, and a servant, eighteen-year-old Fanny Godfrey. The farm was
quite large, being 380 acres and, in Albert's father's time, needing
eight men to work it, although fifty years previously it had been a
third of that size.
By 1911 Albert was no longer farming the land, and he, his wife, three
of the children had moved into Bridgwater, 17 Queen Street to be exact.
Daisy Blanche is recorded as a student at eighteen years old, which
suggests she may not have been at school, but at college or even
university.