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Voilet May SherryAge: 821890–1972

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Voilet May Sherry
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Sherry
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Birth 1890 41 36
 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

Australian History 1890
 

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Birth of a sister 1891 (Age 12 months)
 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

younger sister - Winifred Sherry
Australian History 1891 (Age 12 months)
 

Note: A National Australasian Convention meets, agrees on adopting the name 'the Commonwealth of Australia' and drafting a constitution.
Note: The first attempt at a federal constitution is drafted.
Note: The Convention adopts the constitution, although it has no legal status
Note: A severe depression hits Australia
Australian History 1892 (Age 2)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Australian History 1893 (Age 3)
 

Note: The Corowa Conference (the 'people's convention') calls on the colonial parliaments to pass enabling acts, allowing the election of delegates to a new constitutional convention aimed at drafting a proposal and putting it to a referendum in each colony.
Australian History 1894 (Age 4)
 

Note: South Australia becomes the first Australian colony, and the second place in the world, to grant women the right to vote, as well the first Parliament in the world to allow women to stand for office.
Birth of a sister 1895 (Age 5)
 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

younger sister - Margaret Ellen Sherry
Australian History 1895 (Age 5)
 

Note: The premiers, except for those of Queensland and Western Australia, agree to implement the Corowa proposals.
Note: Waltzing Matilda is first sung in public, in Winton, Queensland
Note: Banjo Paterson publishes The Man from Snowy River
Australian History 1896 (Age 6)
 

Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Australian History 1897 (Age 7)
 

Note: In two sessions, the Second National Australasian Convention meets (with representatives from all colonies except Queensland present). They agree to adopt a constitution based on the 1891 draft, and then revise and amend it later that year.
Note: Catherine Helen Spence became the first female political candidate for political office, standing for election as a representative for South Australia.
Australian History 1898 (Age 8)
 

Note: The Convention agrees on a final draft to be put to the people.
Note: After much public debate, the Victorian, South Australian and Tasmanian referendums are successful; the New South Wales referendum narrowly fails. Later New South Wales votes 'yes' in a second referendum, and Queensland and Western Australia also vote to join.
Australian History 1899 (Age 9)
 

Note: The decision is made to site the national capital in New South Wales, but not within 100 miles of Sydney.
Note: The Australian Labor Party holds office for a few days in Queensland, becoming the first trade union party to do so anywhere in the world.
Note: The first contingents from various Australian colonies are sent to South Africa to participate in the Second Boer War.
Australian History 1900 (Age 10)
 

Note: Several delegates visit London to resist proposed changes to the agreed-upon constitution.
Note: The constitution is passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom as a schedule to the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, and is given royal assent
Death of a maternal grandmother 11 September 1901 (Age 11)
 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

maternal grandmother - Mary Ann Hall
Australian History 1901 (Age 11)
 

Note: (01 Jan) Australia becomes a federation on 1 January. Edmund Barton becomes Prime Minister; the 7th Earl of Hopetoun becomes Governor-General
Note: The first parliament met in Parliament House, Melbourne
Note: Immigration Restriction act was introduced- The White Australian Policy
Note: The Australian National Flag was flown for the first time
Australian History 1902 (Age 12)
 

Note: The Franchise Act guarantees women the right to vote in federal elections (by this stage, most states had already done this). However, it excludes most non-European ethnic groups, including Aboriginal people, unless already registered to vote on State roles.
Note: King Edward VII approved the design of the Australian flag.
Note: Breaker Morant is executed for having shot Boers who had surrendered
Australian History 1903 (Age 13)
 

Note: The High Court of Australia is established with Samuel Griffith as the first Chief Justice.
Note: The Defence Act gives the federal government full control over the Australian Army
Note: Alfred Deakin elected Prime Minister
Marriage of a sisterLela Maud Sherry - View family
1904 (Age 14)
 Victoria, Australia

brother-in-law - Charles Stevenson
elder sister - Lela Maud Sherry
Australian History 1904 (Age 14)
 

Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital
Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government
Marriage of a brotherEdwin David Sherry - View family
1906 (Age 16)
 Victoria, Australia

elder brother - Edwin David Sherry
sister-in-law - Florence Jean Edmonds
Australian History 1906 (Age 16)
 

Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Death of a maternal grandfather 21 January 1908 (Age 18)
 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

maternal grandfather - Matthew Madill
Australian History 1908 (Age 18)
 

Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country
Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead
Australian History 1909 (Age 19)
 

Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
Australian History 1910 (Age 20)
 

Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.
Australian History 1911 (Age 21)
 

Note: The Royal Australian Navy is founded
Note: The Northern Territory comes under Commonwealth control, being split off from South Australia
Note: The first national census is conducted.
Note: Australian Capital Territory proclaimed.
Australian History 1912 (Age 22)
 

Note: Australia sends women to the Olympic Games for the first time
Note: Walter Burley Griffin wins a design competition for the new city of Canberra
Marriage of a brotherThomas Mathew Sherry - View family
1913 (Age 23)
 Victoria, Australia

elder brother - Thomas Mathew Sherry
sister-in-law - Amelia Grace Doherty
Australian History 1913 (Age 23)
 

Note: Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains.
Note: Matthew Flinders refers to New South Wales by the name 'Australia'.
Australian History 1913 (Age 23)
 

Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place
Australian History 1914 (Age 24)
 

Note: Australian soldiers are sent to the First World War. This was first time Australians had fought under the Australian flag, as opposed to that of Britain's.
Australian History 1915 (Age 25)
 

Note: (25 APRIL)Australian soldiers land at Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey on 25 April.
Note: Jervis Bay Territory comprising 6,677 hectares surrendered and becomes part of the Australia Capital Territory.
Note: Surfing is first introduced to Australia
Note: Billy Hughes became Prime Minister
Australian History 1916 (Age 26)
 

Note: Hotels are forced to close at 6 p.m., leading to the beginning of the 'six o'clock swill'
Note: Australia suffers heavy casualties in the Western Front Battle of the Somme.
Note: The Returned Sailors� and Soldiers� Imperial League of Australia, the forerunner to the Returned and Services League of Australia is founded
Note: The Labor government under Billy Hughes splits over conscription. First referendum on conscription is rejected
Australian History 1917 (Age 27)
 

Note: Second referendum on conscription is rejected. Transcontinental railway linking Adelaide to Perth is completed.
Note: Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade launches last cavalry charge in modern warfare to capture Beersheba from the Ottoman Turks.
Australian History 1918 (Age 28)
 

Note: (08 AUG) Battle of Amiens
Note: Australian troops spearhead 8 August offensive against Hindenberg Line - the 'black day of the German Army'.
Note: On 12 August, Australian commander General Sir John Monash is knighted in the field of battle by King George V
Note: First World War ends - 60,000 Australians dead.
Note: The Darwin Rebellion takes place, with 1,000 demonstrators demanding the resignation of the Administrator of the Northern Territory, John A. Gilruth.
MarriageWilliam Arthur Mitchell - View family
1919 (Age 29)
 Victoria, Australia

Australian History 1919 (Age 29)
 

Note: Prime Minister Billy Hughes signs Treaty of Versailles: the first signing of an international treaty by Australia. Australia obtains League of Nations mandate over German New Guinea.
Australian History 1920 (Age 30)
 

Note: The airline Qantas is founded
Death of a father 2 March 1921 (Age 31)
 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

father - John Sherry
Australian History 1921 (Age 31)
 

Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament
Australian History 1922 (Age 32)
 

Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney
Australian History 1923 (Age 33)
 

Note: Vegemite is first produced
Australian History 1926 (Age 36)
 

Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held
Death of a mother 15 July 1927 (Age 37)
 Footscray, Victoria, Australia

mother - Ann Jane Madill
Australian History 1927 (Age 37)
 

Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital
Australian History 1928 (Age 38)
 

Note: Bert Hinkler makes the first successful flight from Britain to Australia, and Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first flight from the United States to Australia. The Shrine of Remembrance is built.
Australian History 1929 (Age 39)
 

Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary
Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia.
Australian History 1930 (Age 40)
 

Note: Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings
Note: Phar Lap wins his first Melbourne Cup
Australian History 1931 (Age 41)
 

Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia
Australian History 1932 (Age 42)
 

Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens
Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister
Australian History 1933 (Age 43)
 

Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments
Australian History 1936 (Age 46)
 

Note: The last Thylacine dies
Australian History 1937 (Age 47)
 

Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins
Australian History 1938 (Age 48)
 

Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games
Australian History 1939 (Age 49)
 

Note: (April) Prime Minister Lyons dies in office and is replaced by Robert Menzies and the first Menzies Government
Note: (September) Australia enters the Second World War following the German Invasion of Poland. The 2nd Australian Imperial Force is raised.
Note: The first flight is made by an Australian-made warplane, the Wirraway
Note: Victoria is devastated by the Black Friday bushfires
Australian History 1940 (Age 50)
 

Note: A team of scientists, under Howard Florey, develops penicillin
Note: Fascist Italy enters war, Royal Australian Navy engages Italian Navy in the early stages of the Battle of the Mediterranean.
Australian History 1941 (Age 51)
 

Note: 3 Divisions of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force join operations in the Mediterranean. After initial successes against Italy, 2nd AIF suffered defeat against the Germans in Greece, Crete, and North Africa.
Note: Apr-Aug, Australian garrison (Rats of Tobruk) halt advance of Hitler's panzers for the first time during the Siege of Tobruk.
Note: Menzies resigns and John Curtin becomes Prime Minister in the Curtin Government of 1941-45.
Australian History 1942 (Age 52)
 

Note: Feb, Fall of Singapore. 15,000 Australians become Prisoners of War of the Japanese
Note: 1942-43 - Japanese air raids - almost 100 attacks against sites in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland.
Note: The Royal Australian Navy and 6th and 7th Divisions of 2nd AIF are recalled from Mediterranean Theatre to participate in the anticipated Battle of Australia.
Note: 1942-3 - Sparrow Force engages in guerilla campaign in Battle of Timor
Note: Battle of the Coral Sea - United States and Royal Australian Navy halt advance of the Japanese towards Port Moresby (Australian Territory of Papua)
Note: Battle of Kokoda Trail - Australian soldiers halt Japanese march on Port Moresby
Note: Aug-Sep, Australian forces inflict the first defeat on the Imperial Japanese Army in the Battle of Milne Bay.
Note: Jul-Nov, Australia's 9th Division plays crucial role in the First and Second Battle of El Alamein, which turned the North Africa Campaign in favour of the Allies.
Note: National daylight saving is introduced as a war time measure.
Note: The UK Statute of Westminster is formally adopted by Australia. The Statute formally grants Australia the right to pass laws that conflict with UK laws.
Australian History 1943 (Age 53)
 

Note: Australia wins its first Oscar, with cinematographer Damien Parer honoured for Kokoda Front Line! documentary.
Note: 2,815 Australian Pows die constructing Japan's Burma-Thailand Railway
Note: 1943-44 - Australian forces engage Japan in New Guinea, Wau, and the Huon peninsula.
Australian History 1944 (Age 54)
 

Note: Cowra breakout, mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war occurs in NSW.
Note: Japanese inflict Sandakan Death March on 2,000 Australian and British prisoners of war - only 6 survive. The single worst war crime perpetrated against Australians.
Note: Australian forces battle Japanese garrisons from Borneo to Bougainville.
Note: The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is introduced, providing subsidised medicine to all Australians
Australian History 1945 (Age 55)
 

Note: the Liberal Party of Australia is established with Robert Menzies as its first leader.
Note: Australian forces lead Battle of Borneo
Note: (7 May) Nazi Germany surrenders
Note: (July) Prime Minister Curtin dies and is replaced by Ben Chifley and the Chifley Labor Government
Note: (1 August) Japan Surrenders
Note: Australia becomes a founding member of the United Nations
Note: The Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race is held for the first time
Australian History 1946 (Age 56)
 

Note: Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell introduces the major post-war immigration scheme
Note: Norman Makin, is voted in as the first President of the United Nations Security Council.
Australian History 1948 (Age 58)
 

Note: Minister for External Affairs, Dr. H.V. Evatt is elected President of the United Nations General Assembly.
Note: Australia becomes a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Australian History 1949 (Age 59)
 

Note: Construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme begins
Note: All indigenous ex-servicemen and any Indigenous Australians who are eligible to vote in State Elections (NSW, VIC, SA and TAS) are given an unrestricted right to vote in Federal Elections.
Note: The Nationality and Citizenship Act is passed. Rather than being identified as subjects of Britain, the Act established Australian citizenship for people who met eligibility requirements.
Note: Menzies returns to power as leader of the new Liberal Party Menzies Government.
Australian History 1950 (Age 60)
 

Note: 1950-53 - Australian troops are sent to the Korean War to assist South Korea.
Note: Voters reject a referendum to change the Constitution to allow the Menzies Government to ban the Communist Party
Death of a brother 1951 (Age 61)
 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

elder brother - Edwin David Sherry
Australian History 1951 (Age 61)
 

Note: Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand
Australian History 1952 (Age 62)
 

Note: First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia.
Australian History 1954 (Age 64)
 

Note: Elizabeth II and Prince Philip make a royal visit; the Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov defects, leading to the Petrov Affair and another split in the Labor Party
Australian History 1955 (Age 65)
 

Note: Democratic Labor Party splits from Australian Labor Party over concerns of Communist influence in the labour movement
Note: Australia becomes involved in Malayan Insurgence
Note: Hotels in New South Wales no longer have to close at 6 p.m., ending the 'six o'clock swill'
Australian History 1956 (Age 66)
 

Note: Television in Australia is launched.
Note: Melbourne holds the Olympics
Note: performing artist Barry Humphries introduces Edna Everage to the Australian stage
Australian History 1957 (Age 67)
 

Note: The song 'Wild One' makes Johnny O'Keefe the first Australian rock'n'roller to reach the national charts.
Note: Slim Dusty's Australian country music hit Pub With No Beer becomes the first Australian song to attain international chart success.
Australian History 1962 (Age 72)
 

Note: Robert Menzies' Commonwealth Electoral Act provided that all Indigenous Australians should have the right to enrol and vote at federal elections, removing remaining restrictions applying in QLD, WA and NT.
Note: Malayan Insurgence ends
Australian History 1964 (Age 74)
 

Note: The Beatles tour Australia;
Note: 82 sailors die when HMAS Voyager sinks after being rammed by HMAS Melbourne;
Note: The editors of Oz magazine are charged with obscenity;
Note: PM Robert Menzies announces the reintroduction of compulsory military service for men aged from 18-25 years old;
Note: First troops sent to Vietnam War.
Australian History 1965 (Age 75)
 

Note: Indigenous Australians gain right to vote in state of Queensland
Australian History 1966 (Age 76)
 

Note: The ban on the employment of married women in the Commonwealth Public Service is lifted;
Note: Menzies retires as Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister and is succeeded by Harold Holt.
Australian History 14 February 1966 (Age 76)
 

Note: Decimalisation; on 14 February the Australian currency is changed to dollars and cents, with the Australian Dollar replacing the Australian pound.
Australian History 1967 (Age 77)
 

Note: Large areas of Hobart and south-eastern Tasmania are devastated by bushfires on 7 February that kill 62 people;
Note: Prime Minister Holt drowns and is succeeded by John Gorton;
Note: The constitution is changed to allow Aboriginal Australians to be included in the population count and for the federal government to legislate for them; Sydney is rocked by a series of brutal underworld killings;
Note: Talkback radio is introduced;
Note: British comedian Tony Hancock commits suicide in Sydney;
Note: Gough Whitlam becomes leader of the Labor Party;
Note: Ronald Ryan becomes the last person legally executed in Australia.
Australian History 1968 (Age 78)
 

Note: Australia signs the nuclear non-proliferation treaty; Aboriginal boxing champion Lionel Rose defeats Masahiko 'Fighting' Harada in Japan to become the world bantamweight champion; Australia's first liver transplant operation is performed in Sydney;
Australian History 1969 (Age 79)
 

Note: French conceptual artist Christo 'wraps' Little Bay in Sydney;
Note: Renowned author-artists Norman Lindsay and May Gibbs die;
Note: The Australian production of the rock musical Hair premieres in Sydney;
Note: Top pop groups The Easybeats and The Twilights break up; Tim Burstall directs2000 Weeks, the first all-Australian feature released since Charles Chauvel's Jedda in 1958
Australian History 1970 (Age 80)
 

Note: More than 200,000 people participate in the largest demonstrations in Australian history, against the Vietnam War
Death of a brother 1971 (Age 81)
 Tongala, Victoria, Australia

elder brother - Thomas Mathew Sherry
Australian History 1971 (Age 81)
 

Note: Neville Bonner becomes the first Aborigine to become an Australian Member of Parliament;
Note: John Gorton resigns and is succeeded by William McMahon
Note: The 1971 Springbok tour sparks protest all throughout Australia. Premier of Queensland Joh Bjelke-Petersen declares a state of emergency in QLD in response to escalating protest.
Note: Daylight Saving is introduced to New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, and the Australian Capital Territory.
Australian History 1972 (on the date of death)
 

Note: The Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission rules that women doing the same job as men have the right to be paid the same wage.
Note: Aboriginal Tent Embassy erected in response to the Coalition government's approval of exploration licences and mining tenements on reserves
Note: The first Labor government since 1949 is elected under the leadership of Gough Whitlam
Note: Australia recognizes the People's Republic of China
Note: Queensland abandons Daylight Saving.
Death 1972 (Age 82)
 Footscray, Victoria, Australia

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father
John Sherry

Birth 1849  Barwon River, Victoria, Australia

Death 2 March 1921 (Age 72)  Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

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mother
Ann Jane Madill

Birth 11 March 1853 23 23  Mullaghboy, Monaghan, Ireland

Death 15 July 1927 (Age 74)  Footscray, Victoria, Australia

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Marriage: 1873 — Colac, Victoria, Australia
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#1 elder brother
John Thomas Sherry

Birth 1875 26 21  Clunes, Victoria, Australia

Death yes  

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#2 elder brother
Edwin David Sherry

Birth 1877 28 23  Mundoona, Victoria, Australia

Death 1951 (Age 74)  Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

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#3 elder sister
Mary Ann Sherry

Birth 1879 30 25  Wyuna, Victoria, Australia

Death yes  

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#4 elder brother
Thomas Mathew Sherry

Birth 1881 32 27  Undera, Victoria, Australia

Death 1971 (Age 90)  Tongala, Victoria, Australia

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#5 elder sister
Lela Maud Sherry

Birth 1884 35 30  Undera, Victoria, Australia

Death 1976 (Age 92)  Victoria, Australia

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#6 elder brother
Francis Henry Sherry

Birth 1886 37 32  Undera, Victoria, Australia

Death yes  

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#7 herself
Voilet May Sherry

Birth 1890 41 36  Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

Death 1972 (Age 82)  Footscray, Victoria, Australia

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#8 younger sister
Winifred Sherry

Birth 1891 42 37  Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

Death 1974 (Age 83)  Camberwell, Victoria, Australia

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#9 younger sister
Margaret Ellen Sherry

Birth 1895 46 41  Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

Death yes  

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Family with William Arthur Mitchell - View family
husband
William Arthur Mitchell

Death yes  

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herself
Voilet May Sherry

Birth 1890 41 36  Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

Death 1972 (Age 82)  Footscray, Victoria, Australia

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Marriage: 1919 — Victoria, Australia

Voilet May Sherry has 30 first cousins recorded

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Mother's family (30)

Parents David Madill + Adelaide Annie Briggs
1 Annie Elizabeth Madill 1879–1956
Parents David Madill + Mary Ellen Ryan
1 Edith May Madill 1882–1931
2 Ethel Madill 1884–1976
3 Margaret Rebecca Ellen Madill 1885–?
4 Elizabeth Isabel Madill 1887–1970
5 Alice Madill 1889–?
6 Daisy Madill 1891–1970
7 Albert Ernest Madill 1893–1983
8 Ida Lilian Madill 1895–1978
Parents David Madill + Abina Maude Lynas
1 Abina Maude Madill 1900–1993
2 David James "Jim" Madill 1903–1982
3 Thomas Matthew Madill 1904–1952
4 Elsie Madill 1905–1995
5 Florence "May" Madill 1907–?
6 Gertrude "Rita" Madill 1912–1978
7 Frederick Lynas "Fred" Madill 1913–2007
8 Leslie George Madill 1915–1971
9 Phyllis Rosiland Madill 1919–2011
Parents James Alfred Bilson + Mary Ellinor Madill
1 Walter Frankling Bilson 1882–1894
2 Reginald Madill Bilson 1884–1967
3 Ellen May Bilson 1886–?
4 David Leslie Bilson 1888–?
5 Alfred Osland Bilson 1890–1968
6 James Arthur Bilson 1893–1894
7 Adelaide Elizabeth Bilson 1895–?
8 Irene Mary Bilson 1900–?
Parents James Henry Ryan + Margaret Ann Madill
1 Eva Adelaide Ryan 1891–?
2 Herbert Ernest Ryan 1893–?
3 Vera Mabel Ryan 1907–1998
4 Ella Margaret Ryan 1909–?

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