Family Members
This is a list of all known family members (and their spouses) who descend from Gabriel Blewett and Ruth Waters up to the fourth generation of descent, including a few ring ins that help tell their story.
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Like his father John, a boot finisher. Born William John Alfred Morgan but in his mother Maud's will he was named William Alfred John Morgan, living at 94 Dight Street, Collingwood. In Victorian electoral rolls he was also listed as William Alfred John. He married Vera Alma Thomas (1903-1982) in 1925 (VIC BDM marriage certificate 8938/1925).
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In his mother Maud's will (and his death certificate) he was named George Alfred Morgan.
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Married name — Ivy Currie. Ivy married Thomas Sproul Currie in 1925 (VIC BDM marriage certificate 8934/1925), name given on marriage certificate Ivy May Melvin. She is buried at Point Lonsdale.
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John married Florence May Reynolds in 1935 (VIC BDM marriage certificate 2054/1935).
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Norman was born to John Morgan (posthumously) and Maud Morgan in Carlton in 1915, three and a half weeks after his father's death. Norman (Service Number VX34894, 2/29th Australian Infantry Battalion) served in the second world war and died in Borneo, of 'illness', in 1945.
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William Henry Morgan became known as George Melvin, taking his mother’s maiden name for his surname. An article in The Age in November 1884 indicates that the child was already known as George Melvin by the age of 3 years and 9 months old ('George Melvin, of Sackville-street, Collingwood, having his leg injured'). This was about a year and a half after Angelina, his mother, married Alfred Haram. George Melvin was the executor of his mother's will.
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Valentina Cawley
Valentina Huckel
On her marriage certificate (to Bernard Cawley in 1906) Valentina's name is given as Valentina Elvena Haram. On the death certificates of two of her children (died young) her name is given as Valentina Elvina. This was probably correct (also her mother's middle name). She was known in the family as Vally (or possibly Valetta).
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Mildred Ryall
Mildred Northmore
aka Millie
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Alfred enlisted with the AIF in October 1918 and was demobbed two months later. He'd been a turner and fitter when he signed up. Alfred married Lorayne Hilda Wright in 1928.
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Gabriel Albert (known as Bert) was born at home in Islington Street Collingwood. His father Gabriel was 22 and mother Ellen was 17. Ellen's mother, Mrs Vontom, was present at the birth. Bert married several times, had children, served in the First World War, eventually moved to Sydney and died there in 1957.
The family details of Gabriel Albert Morgan aren't mine to share, beyond the personal details I have noted here.
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Jessie Irons
Jessie Fuller
Jessie married James Douglas Irons (died 1919) in 1910 and had two children. Jessie married Albert Edward Fuller in 1923.
The family details of Jessie Morgan aren't mine to share, beyond the personal details I have noted here.
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Alice Ada Wallis
Alice married Cecil Wallis in 1915 and they had five children.
The family details of Alice Ada Morgan aren't mine to share, beyond the personal details I have noted here.
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Elsie Evans
Elsie married John Raymond Evans in 1921. Sadly, Elsie died from puerperal septicemia and cardiac failure in the Women’s Hospital in 1926, predeceasing both her parents, and was deeply missed by her parents and siblings. She had no children. She was only thirty five.
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Sister Judith Anne Morgan CSMV
Ethel never married. She was a school teacher at Clyde Girls School, Mount Macedon from 1931 before becoming a nun, joining the Community of St Mary the Virgin at St Mary's School, Wantage, Oxfordshire, England in 1939, and spent many years teaching for the order in India, dying in England of cancer. Later in life she kept up a correspondence with my father, Peter. She surely kept up correspondence with all her family in Australia and her personal archive would have been incredible. I checked with the order and alas, all was destroyed upon Ethel's death.
She worked and lived in the following Community Houses:
1939 St Mary's School, Wantage, Oxfordshire
1941 St Helena's Retreat House, Ealing, London
1941 St Faith's Home, Lostwithiel, Cornwall
1945 St Mary's Convent, Poona, India
1951 on furlough, Wantage, May-November
1951 St Mary's Training College, Poona, India
1954 St Mary's Convent, Poona, India
1957 on furlough, Melbourne, sailed 29 November
1958 sailed for India from Melbourne, 1 June
1962 St Mary's School, Wantage, Oxfordshire, from April
1962 St Mary's Convent, Poona, India, from October
1969 installed as Mother Provincial's Assistant
1971 returned to St Mary's School, Wantage, Oxfordshire, 26 April
1971 St Mary's Home, Buxted (mentally handicapped adults)
1978 St Helena's Retreat House, Ealing, London
1979 St Katherine's House, Wantage, Oxfordshire (home for elderly ladies)
I remember Sister Judith Anne very well. She was a fun loving person, she was excellent at table tennis, which she enjoyed playing after lunch. This would be in the 1970s. She was in remission from cancer before she died.
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As a child John was a member of the Try Boy’s Society in South Yarra (1912-16). He unsuccessfully attempted to enlist to fight in World War One in 1916, his age given as 20 (he was barely 18). At the time he was working as a telephonist. John Blewett Morgan married Pearl Olive Barley in 1922. They had one daughter, and lived at 10 Maxwell Grove, Caulfield. John died from a heart attack in 1963, having retired as a postman in the Postmaster General's Department that same year. Pearl died the following year.
The family details of John Blewett Morgan aren't mine to share, beyond the personal details I have noted here.
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The family details of Charles Morgan aren't mine to share, beyond the personal details I have noted here.
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Florence Eva Howie
The family details of Florence Eva Morgan aren't mine to share, beyond the personal details I have noted here.
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Lucy (Lucia) May Gaffney
The family details of Lucy May Morgan aren't mine to share, beyond the personal details I have noted here.
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The family details of Leslie Edward Morgan aren't mine to share, beyond the personal details I have noted here.
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Clarence Blewett was a musician, like his father Arthur, and was a player at the Jubilee Picture Theatre, Nicholson Street, Fitzroy, at the time of his marriage. His occupation on electoral rolls was progressively given as musician, tailor, manager and manufacturer. In 1930 he set up a textile manufacturing company, Fiander & Blewett Pty Ltd, liquidated 1935. He was listed as a pattern cutter on the report of his death to the coroner. Clarence died at work, Thomas Wardle Clothing Manufacturer, 5th floor, 60 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, and was found deceased at his cutter's bench, in a sleeping position.
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Gertrude Blewett Pearce was Emma Blewett's granddaughter. She emigrated to South Africa with her family in 1894 and married Christopher Cramond Walker, a mine clerk (who predeceased his wife by less than two months) in Johannesburg 5 March 1910. The Walkers had three children: Christopher James, Leonard Courtenay (died 1974) and Mary Geraldine.
Both Leonard and Gertrude Pearce were given the middle name Blewett, their maternal grandmother's maiden name. That they weren't given their mother's maiden name, Redman, appears to confirm that Mary's father William Henry Redman was persona non grata, having more than likely abandoned the family, leading to the Redman family's separation by the 1881 census. It suggests to me that Emma Blewett was much loved by her daughter Mary.
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