Ellen Teresea (Nellie) FRANCIS (1881

Ellen Teresea (Nellie) FRANCIS (1881 - 1975)

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
Albert James HIMSTEDT (1903 - 1997) Stanley Lewis HIMSTEDT (1904 - 1907) George Edward HIMSTEDT (1906 - 1970) Leslie Frank HIMSTEDT (1908 - 1925) Robert Victor HIMSTEDT (1913 - 1966)	Ellen Teresea (Nellie) FRANCIS (1881 - 1975) + Albert James Herman (Hermie) HIMSTEDT (1867 - 1947)	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. 19 Nov 1881 at Merton, Surrey, England

m. 19 Feb 1902 Albert James Herman (Hermie) HIMSTEDT (1867 - 1947) at Esk, Queensland, Australia

d. 13 Aug 1975 at Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia aged 93

Parents:

James FRANCIS (1856 - 1938)

Elizabeth YOUNG (1856 - 1915)

Siblings (8):

Ada Maria FRANCIS (1879 - 1966)

WIlliam Joseph FRANCIS (1880 - 1954)

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 (5):

Albert James HIMSTEDT (1903 - 1997)

Stanley Lewis HIMSTEDT (1904 - 1907)

George Edward HIMSTEDT (1906 - 1970)

Leslie Frank HIMSTEDT (1908 - 1925)

Robert Victor HIMSTEDT (1913 - 1966)

Grandchildren (4):

Events in Ellen Teresea (Nellie) FRANCIS (1881 - 1975)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
19 Nov 1881		Ellen Teresea (Nellie) FRANCIS was born	Merton, Surrey, England
Jun 1884	2	Immigration	Australia	per "Waroonga"	18
19 Feb 1902	20	Married Albert James Herman (Hermie) HIMSTEDT (aged 34)	Esk, Queensland, Australia	1902/C2089
11 Jan 1903	21	Birth of son Albert James HIMSTEDT	Esk, Queensland, Australia	1903/C9477
21 Oct 1904	22	Birth of son Stanley Lewis HIMSTEDT	Esk, Queensland, Australia	1904/C10946
19 May 1906	24	Birth of son George Edward HIMSTEDT	Esk, Queensland, Australia	1906/C10295
09 Jul 1907	25	Death of son Stanley Lewis HIMSTEDT (aged 2)	Esk, Queensland, Australia	headstone
02 Jan 1908	26	Birth of son Leslie Frank HIMSTEDT	Esk, Queensland, Australia	1906/C9694
16 Apr 1913	31	Birth of son Robert Victor HIMSTEDT	Esk, Queensland, Australia	1913/C12597
24 Mar 1915	33	Death of mother Elizabeth YOUNG (aged 58)	Esk, Queensland, Australia
1925	44	Electoral Roll	Yarraman, Queensland, Australia
25 May 1925	43	Death of son Leslie Frank HIMSTEDT (aged 17)	Esk, Queensland, Australia	Note 1
03 Aug 1938	56	Death of father James FRANCIS (aged 81)	Esk, Queensland, Australia
17 Nov 1947	65	Death of husband Albert James Herman (Hermie) HIMSTEDT (aged 80)	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia	Note 2
31 Aug 1966	84	Death of son Robert Victor HIMSTEDT (aged 53)	Nambour, Queensland, Australia
10 Nov 1970	88	Death of son George Edward HIMSTEDT (aged 64)	Mt Thompson, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia		17
13 Aug 1975	93	Ellen Teresea (Nellie) FRANCIS died	Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia

Note 1: 1925/C2182
Cemetery record: Himstead, Leslie F, bur. 27 May 1925, age: 17yr 4mo, W E Hawkins FH, Grave #549

Note 2: 1947/14713
Cemetery record: Himsteadt, A J H, bur. 19 Nov 1947, age: 80yr, W E Hawkins FH, Grave #891

Personal Notes:

Theresa Ellen was always referred to by her family as Nellie. She was born in England and travelled to Australia with her parents in 1884. She remembered the trip from Ipswich at six years of age, in 1887, to the family's rural selection at Bia"a that they named 'Merton Hall Farm'.

Her mother journeyed by train to Esk with five children, arriving at 9pm. They stayed overnight at Markwell's Hotel and their father arrived early the next day from Biarra with horse and dray to take them
and their possessions to their new home. The loaded dray only enabled the youngest to ride, and the rest walked the ten miles to the selection. Nellie was enrolled at Biarra School in June 1888 at the age
of six, leaving in October 1893.

Nellie married Herman Himstedt at 'Merton Hall Farm' and they lived in Esk for a while. Albert was always referred to by the Francis men as "Hermie". In 1904 they purchased some rural land subdivided from 'Colinton Station', Moore, taking up residence in 1905, and named the place 'Glen Hills'. They had a family of five children, all boys.

They took Herman's cousin, Arthur Pearmine, into partnership and, in 1917, bought out his interest in this grazing and dairying property. More land adjoining was later purchased in partnership with their sons. Nellie and Hermie were always helpful to others, and their 'open home' and hospitality were appreciated by many.

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.

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.
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.
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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