Elsie Winifred FRANCIS (1900

Elsie Winifred FRANCIS (1900 - 1998)

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
Gladys Evelyn FRANCIS (1917 - 1997) Living Living	Elsie Winifred FRANCIS (1900 - 1998) + James FRANCIS (1887 - 1959)	William Herbert FRANCIS (1871 - 1947)	Joseph FRANCIS (1827 - 1909)	Joseph FRANCIS (1797 - 1855)
				Ann GREEN (1798 - 1891)
			Ellen HEATHFIELD (1833 - 1886)	James HEATHFIELD (1797 - 1848)
				Elizabeth MERRYWEATHER (1793 - 1862)
		Annie Mary DEXTER (1870 - 1949)

b. 21 Oct 1900 at Wimbledon, Surrey, England

m. 10 Jan 1917 James FRANCIS (1887 - 1959) at Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia

d. 24 Aug 1998 at Normanby, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia aged 97

Parents:

William Herbert FRANCIS (1871 - 1947)

Annie Mary DEXTER (1870 - 1949)

Siblings (2):

Grace Rosalind FRANCIS (1898 - 1954)

Arthur William FRANCIS (1905 - 1987)

Children (3):

Gladys Evelyn FRANCIS (1917 - 1997)

Grandchildren (6):

, Geoffrey James FRANCIS (1949 - 1949)

Events in Elsie Winifred FRANCIS (1900 - 1998)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
21 Oct 1900		Elsie Winifred FRANCIS was born	Wimbledon, Surrey, England		17
10 Jan 1917	16	Married James FRANCIS (aged 29)	Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia	1917/C489	18
08 Jul 1917	16	Birth of daughter Gladys Evelyn FRANCIS	Kumbia, Queensland, Australia		17
18 Oct 1947	46	Death of father William Herbert FRANCIS (aged 76)	Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia
24 Jul 1949	48	Death of mother Annie Mary DEXTER (aged 79)	Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia
22 Jan 1959	58	Death of husband James FRANCIS (aged 71)	Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia		18
12 Mar 1997	96	Death of daughter Gladys Evelyn FRANCIS (aged 79)	Batemans Bay, New South Wales, Australia		17
24 Aug 1998	97	Elsie Winifred FRANCIS died	Normanby, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia		17

Personal Notes:

Elsie, the second daughter of William and Annie Francis, was born at Wimbledon in England. With her parents, brother and sister she emigrated to Australia in 1909. The family's first Australian Christmas was without holly, snow and chestnuts, not at all like the ones to which she was accustomed, and was celebrated in the Biarra home of Elsie's Uncle and Aunt, James and Elizabeth Francis and family.

Elsie was enrolled at Biarra School in January 1910 at the age of nine and left school in October the same year. School here was a totally different experience from her previous school in England, where the Wimbledon school was a day-school but provided a hot mid-day meal for all the pupils.

By 1912 many of her cousins and father had selected land in the Kumbia district to where the family moved. Both Elsie and her sister, Grace, were accomplished dressmakers by this time and made their own clothes. Elsie was first on the roll when the Kumbia School opened in 1914 and her teacher soon discovered her talent for dressmaking and requested that she make her a dress.

Three years later she married her cousin, James Francis and they lived on his Glencliffe property in the foothills of the Bunya Mountains - this they named 'Surrey Hills' reminiscent ofher English birthplace. Their home was often made available for dances and fund-raising nights for the Glencliffe School, which school their three children attended. They moved to Kingaroy in 1940 and to Brisbane in 1948.

Prior to James' death, they were planning a trip to England and Europe to fulfil her wish to visit her childhood home. She eventually made the trip on her own in 1961 and again in 1972. She later resided at 'Sunsetholme' at Normanby in Brisbane where she died at the age of ninety-eight years.

Source References:

17. Type: Book, Abbr: Francis 2000, Title: Francis 2000, Auth: Warwick & Kate Francis, Date: 2000

- Reference = 47 (Birth)

- Reference = 47 (Death)

18. Type: E-mail Message, Abbr: e-mails general pool, Title: e-mails general pool

- Reference = Tracy Berry email 29-1-09 (Marriage)

- Reference = Tracy Berry email 29-1-09 (Name, Notes)

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My family tree. The original project begun about 1998. ID numbers less than about 6,000
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.
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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).

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