Family History Friday

Family History Friday: William George & Emily Parish

My great grandfather, William George PARISH was born 5th August 1868,  in Yankalilla, South Australia, the son of James Parish and Jane Smith who had emigrated earlier from Cambridgeshire, England.

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Centre (seated): William & Emily Parish

William married Emily BRITTEN on the 18th February 1891 in Horsham, Victoria. Emily was born 9th June 1872, at Port MacDonnell near Mount Gambier in South Australia, the daughter of Joseph BRITTEN and Mary Ellen HUNTER. (Though Joseph and Mary Ellen were both born Wiltshire in England, they married 1868 in South Australia.)

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This my dad, William Kelvin Parish as a child (centre), note the same belligerent look as his grandfather!

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Family History Friday

Family History Friday: The Redlock-Erbie Ring-in

My husband’s Great Grand Uncle, Charles Albert Prince was sentenced to two years jail for taking part in the Redlock-Erbie ring-in, South Australia, 1934.

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from page 119, Ringers & Rascals: A Taste Of Skulduggery, by David Ashforth.
Prince served only five months of his two-year sentence, thanks to remission to mark a visit by the Duke of Gloucester. In 1954, when he was 60, he had further cause to be a royalist. To mark a visit by the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth, the South Australian Jockey Club lifted Prince’s life disqualification.
The mischievious looking Prince told The Sun, a Melbourne paper, that he was happy in his job, working in the bar of a hotel in Violet Town and growing vegetables.
“I made a stupid mistake in helping to ring in Erbie as Redlock,” he confessed. “I hope that nobody else will be as silly as I was and try to get away with it.”
It was a vain hope.

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prince charles mug shot 1934

Below is part of this full newspaper story on TROVE online newspapers, 1954.

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Family History Friday: My Nana and Great Grandma

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MY NANA  (my dad’s mum)  standing between her mother and step-father

Mavis Olive Crute was born on 1 Apr 1908 in Stawell.Victoria.Australia, died on 17 Aug 1963 in Horsham,  buried 27 Aug 1963 in Horsham Cemetery.

MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER  (my dad’s grandma)

Caroline Amy Griffiths Crute was born in 1887 in Stawell,Victoria and died on 8 May 1926 in Coburg, being buried 11 May 1926 in Fawkner Cemetery.

Caroline married William Henry Timms, son of Edward Timms and Selina Jane Conduit, in 1911 in Stawell. William was born in 1891 in Ararat,Victoria, and died in 1965 in Ingwood, Victoria, buried on 28 Sep 1965 in Fawkner Cemetery.

This photo taken just before Bill went overseas to war.  Caroline and Bill went on to have another child.

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