REMEMBERING OUR ANZACS TODAY

 

Collage collection

Top Row Left to Right

ADAMS, Morgan - Private - 7th Battalion, 5th Reinforcements A.I.F - - SERN 1903: Born Melbourne VIC, 4 March 1895 - Died 22 August 1923: enlisted Melbourne VIC: Next of Kin (Mother) M Adams.
Returned home 1919 

FORSYTH, John WW1- Born 10 May 1879 Rhodes Swamp, Christchurch, New Zealand  - Serial No.17561 - First Known Rank Corporal - Embarkation Unit 20th Reinforcements Mounted Rifles Brigade, Mounted Machinegun Section. Returned home to New Zealand - Boer War -  returned home to NZ - Trooper - Service No. 3836, enlisted in the 6th New Zealand Contingent, known as the "Silent Sixth", on the 18th of January 1901 at Wellington.

BREACH, James Carey - SERVICE NUMBER NZ 11201. Navy, Regular Military Service, Korean War, 1950-1953 Born 23 February 1930 - Died 2006 Next of kin on embarkation  Esther Breach nee Musson mother. Returned home.

MORGAN, James George Henry Edward - Stoker in the Royal Australian Navy 16th August 1926  Official number 17819.  Navy records physical description 5 foot 6 inches, Auburn hair, Hazel eyes, Fresh complexion. Returned home.

Bottom Row Left to Right

FORSYTH, William - enlisted as Private 15 June 1916 - 2nd Battalion Otago Regiment New Zealand - Serial No.13/2189 - First Known Rank Trooper - Embarkation Unit Auckland Mounted Rifles. Discharged a corporal. Returned home to New Zealand

MORGAN,  William John Pike  Private 14th Battalion A.I.F - SERN - 893: POB - Euroa VIC: POE Broadmeadows VIC: NOK - (Mother) MORGAN S A.†- Killed Lone Pine 8 Aug 1915 - Lest we forget 

CROWL, Bertie Leslie - Private - 7th Battalion, 12th reinforcements AIF - SERN 3712 - Enlisted 8th July 1915. Returned home 5th April 1919. (Brother in law of above Morgan ADAMS.)

FLEMING, Albert Henry Percival - Sergeant Major- 5th Battalion, A Company A.I.F  -  SERN 24: POB Melbourne VIC: POE Melbourne VIC: NOK (Wife) Fleming Marjory. Returned home.

From

http://ancestorchaser.blogspot.com/p/our-familys-brave-lest-we-forget-as-i.html

Eric Daniels and Brenda Adams wedding anniversary

My paternal grandmother Brenda Mary Adams and her first husband Eric Daniels were married at St. Michael's Church, North Melbourne, Victoria on the 1st of September, 1928.

Information on the marriage certificate states that Eric was born at Buncle Street, North Melbourne and Nana was born nearby in Kensington.

Eric gave his parents names as William McDonald Daniels and Florence Mary Powell, yet his mother was named on his death certificate as Ethel Rose Stowell. (the informant was my Nana)

I had found Ethel and William divorced in 1912 and William married Florence Powell in 1913.

Witnesses were Nana's eldest sister, Alice Crowl nee Adams and L. Powell.

I haven't been able to find if  L. Powell was a relative of Eric's stepmother.

A couple of years ago I recorded in a post what I found about  Eric's parents in Trove.

The post is DANIELS family North Melbourne - Trove Tuesday

Brenda Mary Adams age 21 in 1926, two years before she married Eric.
A postcard she sent to her maternal Uncle, Alexander Morgan in New Zealand.

Eric and Brenda went on to have their little boy Ronald Francis Daniels in February 1930.  

They were living at 10 Molesworth Street, North Melbourne at that time.

Tragically Ronald died of Meningitis in December 1931 and Eric died of Hodgkin's disease in January 1932.  An earlier post in Eric's memory HERE

In memoriam - Eric Ebor John Daniels

Today is the anniversary of the death of Eric Ebor John Daniels, the first husband of my paternal grandmother Brenda Mary Forsyth nee Adams.

Their story is heartbreaking.

About nine months after their marriage on the 1st of September 1928 at St. Michael's Catholic Church in North Melbourne Eric was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Disease.

Eric died 88 years ago on the 17th of January 1932 at The Melbourne hospital in North Melbourne, and so very sadly, just short of 5 weeks after the death of their infant son Ronald Francis Daniels of Influenzal meningitis on the 15th of December 1931.

Eric Daniels left with his brother-in-law Bertie Crowl (1891-1967) and their mother-in-law Mary Adams nee Morgan (1864-1933) seated.  (Unfortunately not a very clear photo being a photocopy)

Family Notices (1932, January 18). The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), p. 1. Retrieved January 12, 2020, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article203187394

Little Ronald Francis Daniels

Family Notices (1932, January 19). The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), p. 1, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article203177568

Original photo of Eric and Ronald's grave from my grandmother's photo album


Photo taken by me in 2018

Resting Together In Peace

John ADAMS death and funeral notices

I only recently found the death and funeral notice of my great grandfather, John ADAMS who was born in North Melbourne on the 28th of February 1858 to parents George ADAMS and Catherine nee BARRY.

John married Mary Agnes MORGAN on the 7th of November 1887 at Essendon then they moved to Sydney where their first two sons were born.  

Alexander born 13th October 1888 may have been stillborn or died soon after birth.

John "Jack" born (1889-1983) married May Maude McGee.

John and Mary went on to have five more children all born in Essendon and Kensington.

Alice Agnes (1891-1960) married Bertie CROWL.

Morgan (1895-1923) married Isabel O'BRIEN.

Catherine "Kit" (1896-1973) married William GOODWIN.

Brenda (1905-1999) married 1. Eric DANIELS.  2. James FORSYTH

Frank (1906-1979)

I do wonder who put the death notice in the newspaper as I have gleaned from family stories that John was estranged from his children.  

Perhaps they reconciled in the years before his death.

John and Mary's battle over maintenance of their youngest two children played out in the newspapers.  It was rather confronting when I found the story.  I wrote about it in this Trove Tuesday Post back in 2012.

Those articles and family stories pointed to estrangement within the family but this death notice doesn't give that impression.

Family Notices (1937, April 12). The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), p. 1.  http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205613023

Mary Agnes ADAMS - Trove Tuesday

My paternal great-grandmother Mary Agnes ADAMS nee MORGAN

was born on the 17th of October 1864 at Moonee Ponds, Victoria.

She was the third child and eldest daughter of John MORGAN and Alice nee KELLY who were owners/licensees of the original Cross Keys Hotel at Essendon.

Mary married John ADAMS on the 7th of November 1887 at Essendon but they later separated and had been through a rather acrimonious maintenance battle which I covered in another Trove Tuesday post in 2012.

I was very thankful when the Melbourne Age newspaper became available in Trove as that seems to be have been where my grandmother's family put their notices.

Mary Agnes ADAMS died on the 24th of August 1933 at her home at 10 Molesworth Street North Melbourne.