Edwin Alfred Holden the youngest of seven boys was born on 15th March 1875. While Edwin worked in the family boot making business his local was The Trust in Providence' public house. Edwin combined his drinking with courting the Landlords daughter, Lucy Blanche Elizabeth who worked behind the bar. The couple married at St Andrews Church Netherton in October 1898, Edwin was 23 years old and his new bride 20. Edwin's father-in-law persuaded the newly-weds to take the tenancy of The Britannia Inn at Northfield Road, Netherton where they stayed for 6 years. In 1904 Edwin and Lucy moved to The Struggling Man' in Shavers End Dudley which was another Atkinson's pub and in 1907 they then moved to The Horse and Jockey, Dibdale Lane, Lower Gornal where Edwin Alfred Holden (Teddy) was born on 30th November 1907. Teddy had two sisters born before himself but neither survived more than a few months. After a year at The Bloomfield Inn in Tipton a move to The Summer House in Woodsetton was made in 1910.