[Index]
Ada Maria FRANCIS (1879 - 1966)
Children Self + Spouses Parents Grandparents Greatgrandparents
Alice Elizabeth HIMSTEDT (1901 - 1960)
William Frederick HIMSTEDT (1903 - 1907)
Charles Walter HIMSTEDT (1906 - 2001)
Ernest Stuart HIMSTEDT (1908 - 1912)
Alexander Mervyn HIMSTEDT (1910 - 1950)
Cora Sylvia HIMSTEDT (1916 - 1996)
Arthur Cedric HIMSTEDT (1919 - 1922)
Ada Maria FRANCIS (1879 - 1966)

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Frederick William HIMSTEDT (1869 - 1954)
James FRANCIS (1856 - 1938) Joseph FRANCIS (1827 - 1909) Joseph FRANCIS (1797 - 1855)
Ann GREEN (1798 - 1891)
Ellen HEATHFIELD (1833 - 1886) James HEATHFIELD (1797 - 1848)
Elizabeth MERRYWEATHER (1793 - 1862)
Elizabeth YOUNG (1856 - 1915) William YOUNG



Theresa JERRARD (1830 - ) Daniel JERRARD (1782 - 1854)
Elizabeth EVELEIGH (1796 - )

b. 06 Aug 1879 at Merton, Surrey, England
m. 1899 Frederick William HIMSTEDT (1869 - 1954) at Esk, Queensland, Australia
d. 10 Sep 1966 at Hendra, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia aged 87
Parents:
James FRANCIS (1856 - 1938)
Elizabeth YOUNG (1856 - 1915)
Siblings (8):
WIlliam Joseph FRANCIS (1880 - 1954)
Ellen Teresea (Nellie) FRANCIS (1881 - 1975)
Alice FRANCIS (1883 - 1973)
George FRANCIS (1885 - 1986)
James FRANCIS (1887 - 1959)
Charles FRANCIS (1890 - 1991)
Eliza FRANCIS (1891 - 1967)
Frank FRANCIS (1893 - 1973)
Children (7):
Alice Elizabeth HIMSTEDT (1901 - 1960)
William Frederick HIMSTEDT (1903 - 1907)
Charles Walter HIMSTEDT (1906 - 2001)
Ernest Stuart HIMSTEDT (1908 - 1912)
Alexander Mervyn HIMSTEDT (1910 - 1950)
Cora Sylvia HIMSTEDT (1916 - 1996)
Arthur Cedric HIMSTEDT (1919 - 1922)
Grandchildren (7):
Events in Ada Maria FRANCIS (1879 - 1966)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
06 Aug 1879 Ada Maria FRANCIS was born Merton, Surrey, England 18
Jun 1884 4 Immigration Australia per "Waroonga" 18
1899 20 Married Frederick William HIMSTEDT (aged 30) Esk, Queensland, Australia 1899/C2195
12 Dec 1901 22 Birth of daughter Alice Elizabeth HIMSTEDT Esk, Queensland, Australia 1901/C10690
22 Jan 1903 23 Birth of son William Frederick HIMSTEDT Esk, Queensland, Australia 1903/C9479
13 Jun 1906 26 Birth of son Charles Walter HIMSTEDT Moore, Queensland, Australia 1906/C10300
21 Mar 1907 27 Death of son William Frederick HIMSTEDT (aged 4) Esk, Queensland, Australia Note 1
29 Oct 1908 29 Birth of son Ernest Stuart HIMSTEDT Esk, Queensland, Australia 1908/C9793
23 Dec 1910 31 Birth of son Alexander Mervyn HIMSTEDT Esk, Queensland, Australia 1911/C10888
14 Dec 1912 33 Death of son Ernest Stuart HIMSTEDT (aged 4) Yarraman, Queensland, Australia 1912/C3378
24 Mar 1915 35 Death of mother Elizabeth YOUNG (aged 58) Esk, Queensland, Australia
09 May 1916 36 Birth of daughter Cora Sylvia HIMSTEDT Esk, Queensland, Australia 17
30 May 1919 39 Birth of son Arthur Cedric HIMSTEDT Yarraman, Queensland, Australia 17
07 May 1922 42 Death of son Arthur Cedric HIMSTEDT (aged 2) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 1922/B37030
1925 46 Electoral Roll Yarraman, Queensland, Australia
03 Aug 1938 58 Death of father James FRANCIS (aged 81) Esk, Queensland, Australia
Jun 1950 70 Death of son Alexander Mervyn HIMSTEDT (aged 39) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 1950/27442 17
25 Apr 1954 74 Death of husband Frederick William HIMSTEDT (aged 84) Toombul, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 1954/1541
21 Jul 1960 80 Death of daughter Alice Elizabeth HIMSTEDT (aged 58) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 1960/39339 17
10 Sep 1966 87 Ada Maria FRANCIS died Hendra, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 18
Note 1: 1907/C3521
Cemetery record: Himseadt, Wm F, bur. ? Mar 1907, age: 4yr 2mo, J Clifford FH, Grave #293
Personal Notes:
In 1899 she married Fredrick William Himstedt - the first of three sisters to marry three Himstedt brothers. Fredrick was the son of a local grazier. Ada and Fred resided at the properly 'Water Holes' in the Biarra area until, in 1904, Fred and his brother-in-law Bill Berry purchased a portion of 'Colinton Station' near Moore. This adjoined a block purchased by Fred's brother Herman, husband ofAda's sister, Nellie. About 1910 Fred and Bill sold their interests to Herman, and Fred and Ada and their family went to Ottaba where Fred worked as a teamster. A timber-mill was opened at Yarraman in 1912 and they moved there,
built a home and settled down to raise their family, with Fred working as a teamster, treefeller and in the mill.

He retired about 1940 when he and Ada moved to Esk. Whilst living at Yarraman, Ada was active in the Country Women's Association and the Church of England, and regularly won prizes at the annual Yarraman Show for her jams. Ingredients for her jams came from their large garden offruits, vegetables andflowers - she loved to work in this garden. Her happy disposition made manyfriends for her.

In 1951 Fred and Ada left Esk and went to live at Zillmere in Brisbane and then, in 1954, moved to live with their daughter, Cora (Mrs Frank Barr) and her family at Toombul in Brisbane, where Fred died the same year. In 1962, Ada moved with the Barrfamily to Hendra and this was where she died.
Source References:
18. Type: E-mail Message, Abbr: e-mails general pool, Title: e-mails general pool
- Reference = Tracy Berry email 29-1-09 (Birth)
- Reference = Tracy Berry email 29-1-09 (Death)

This public tree has about 60,100 people. Every person in the tree is related by birth or marriage to at least one other person in the tree - no strays. The people in the tree come mainly from four projects.
  1. My family tree. The original project begun about 1998. ID numbers less than about 6,000
  2. Canberra and Queanbeyan Pioneers. The next 30,000 begun about 2004. Sourced almost entirely from HAGSOC's excellent 'Biographical Register of Canberra and Queanbeyan'. The project began when I decided to add siblings, spouses and parents for a relation with an entry in the Register. 12 years work.
  3. Wagga Pioneers. I moved to Wagga and thought I would extend the Queanbeyan project by adding people from Wagga Wagga & District Family History Society's 'Pioneers of Wagga Wagga and District'. About 10,300 people added over about a year.
  4. Tumut Valley Pioneers. During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, I decided to extend the above projects by adding pioneers of the Tumut Valley. Initial sources were Snowden's 'Pioneers of the Tumut Valley' and 'Relict of ... Lives of Pioneering Women of Tumut and District'. Excellent references published by Tumut Family History Group. I've also added material from newspapers of the time - especially, death records, obituaries and weddings from 'Tumut and Adelong Times'. This project is in its early stage and might take a few years. I plan to extend to the upper Monaro (Adaminaby, Kiandra, Cooma, Jindabyne).
I upload new information to this website about every 3 months. My motivation for these projects is to provide public information for people seeking to trace ancestors and what became of them. Much of the information I provide can be difficult to find.
If you find errors - anything incorrect (dates, places, wrong parents, wrong children), and you have evidence, I would love to fix them. Or, if you have information that would extend my projects, do not hestiate to contact me on the email link below. I do not publish information on living people - which means I'm not much interested in people born after about 1920, and I usually distrust material from before about 1770 without extremely good sources.
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