Elsie Phyllis FRANCIS (1924

Elsie Phyllis FRANCIS (1924 - )

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
Living Living	Elsie Phyllis FRANCIS (1924 - ) + John Richard BAIKIE (1920 - )	Charles FRANCIS (1890 - 1991)	James FRANCIS (1856 - 1938)	Joseph FRANCIS (1827 - 1909)
				Ellen HEATHFIELD (1833 - 1886)
			Elizabeth YOUNG (1856 - 1915)	William YOUNG
				Theresa JERRARD (1830 - )
		Elsie Rose TAYLOR (1895 - 1965)	George TAYLOR (1864 - )

			Harriet PARSONS

b. 17 Aug 1924 at Toogoolawah, Queensland, Australia

m. 27 Apr 1957 John Richard BAIKIE (1920 - ) at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Near Relatives of Elsie Phyllis FRANCIS (1924 - )
Relationship	Person	Born	Birth Place	Died	Death Place	Age
Grandfather	James FRANCIS	29 Aug 1856	Hampton, Middlesex, England	03 Aug 1938	Esk, Queensland, Australia	81
Grandmother	Elizabeth YOUNG	Oct 1856	Chideock, Dorset, England	24 Mar 1915	Esk, Queensland, Australia	58
Grandfather	George TAYLOR	1864
Grandmother	Harriet PARSONS

Father in Law	John BAIKIE
Mother in Law	Marion Aitken JONES

Father	Charles FRANCIS	09 Mar 1890	Esk, Queensland, Australia	28 Mar 1991	Esk, Queensland, Australia	101
Mother	Elsie Rose TAYLOR	01 Dec 1895	Biarra, Queensland, Australia	16 Sep 1965	Biarra, Queensland, Australia	69

Self	Elsie Phyllis FRANCIS	17 Aug 1924	Toogoolawah, Queensland, Australia

Husband	John Richard BAIKIE	30 Oct 1920	Carlton, New South Wales, Australia

Son	Living or Recently Deceased
Daughter	Living or Recently Deceased

Sister	Esme Elizabeth FRANCIS	15 Dec 1915	Biarra, Queensland, Australia
Brother	Stanley Charles FRANCIS	07 Jan 1919	Toogoolawah, Queensland, Australia	06 Mar 1998		79
Brother	Ernest James FRANCIS	16 Aug 1920	Esk, Queensland, Australia
Brother	Living or Recently Deceased
Sister	Living or Recently Deceased
Brother	Living or Recently Deceased

Aunt	Ada Maria FRANCIS	06 Aug 1879	Merton, Surrey, England	10 Sep 1966	Hendra, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia	87
Uncle	Frederick William HIMSTEDT	28 Jun 1869	Queensland, Australia	25 Apr 1954	Toombul, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia	84
Uncle	WIlliam Joseph FRANCIS	abt 1880	Merton, Surrey, England	14 Oct 1954	Kumbia, Queensland, Australia	74
Aunt	Alma Maria Louisa SUSZBIER	1883	Borung, Victoria, Australia	04 Jun 1947	Queensland, Australia	64
Aunt	Ellen Teresea (Nellie) FRANCIS	19 Nov 1881	Merton, Surrey, England	13 Aug 1975	Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia	93
Uncle	Albert James Herman (Hermie) HIMSTEDT	19 Aug 1867	Toogoolawah, Queensland, Australia	17 Nov 1947	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia	80
Aunt	Alice FRANCIS	02 Nov 1883	Merton, Surrey, England	01 Feb 1973	Esk, Queensland, Australia	89
Uncle	Walter Herbert HIMSTEDT	18 Nov 1879	Esk, Queensland, Australia	28 Jul 1953	Esk, Queensland, Australia	73
Uncle	George FRANCIS	03 Oct 1885	Ipswich, Queensland, Australia	11 Sep 1986	Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia	100
Aunt	Harriet May TAYLOR	07 May 1894	Esk, Queensland, Australia	05 Sep 1959	Kumbia, Queensland, Australia	65
Aunt	Mary Amelia MUSCH	11 Sep 1903	Queensland, Australia	29 Apr 1981	Buderim, Queensland, Australia	77
Uncle	James FRANCIS	16 Sep 1887	Ipswich, Queensland, Australia	22 Jan 1959	Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia	71
Aunt	Elsie Winifred FRANCIS	21 Oct 1900	Wimbledon, Surrey, England	24 Aug 1998	Normanby, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia	97
Aunt	Eliza FRANCIS	26 Nov 1891	Esk, Queensland, Australia	03 Dec 1967	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia	76
Uncle	James Henry (Harry) ANDISON	10 Oct 1877	Queensland, Australia	26 Aug 1965	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia	87
Uncle	Frank FRANCIS	14 Sep 1893	Esk, Queensland, Australia	12 Aug 1973	Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia	79
Aunt	Ethel Mary CRISP	26 Jan 1897	Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia	22 Apr 1973	Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia	76

Cousin	Alice Elizabeth HIMSTEDT	12 Dec 1901	Esk, Queensland, Australia	21 Jul 1960	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia	58
Cousin	William Frederick HIMSTEDT	22 Jan 1903	Esk, Queensland, Australia	21 Mar 1907	Esk, Queensland, Australia	4
Cousin	Charles Walter HIMSTEDT	13 Jun 1906	Moore, Queensland, Australia	11 Aug 2001	Yarraman, Queensland, Australia	95
Cousin	Ernest Stuart HIMSTEDT	29 Oct 1908	Esk, Queensland, Australia	14 Dec 1912	Yarraman, Queensland, Australia	4
Cousin	Alexander Mervyn HIMSTEDT	23 Dec 1910	Esk, Queensland, Australia	Jun 1950	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia	39
Cousin	Cora Sylvia HIMSTEDT	09 May 1916	Esk, Queensland, Australia	30 May 1996	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia	80
Cousin	Arthur Cedric HIMSTEDT	30 May 1919	Yarraman, Queensland, Australia	07 May 1922	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia	2
Cousin	Albert James HIMSTEDT	11 Jan 1903	Esk, Queensland, Australia	06 Aug 1997	Esk, Queensland, Australia	94
Cousin	Stanley Lewis HIMSTEDT	21 Oct 1904	Esk, Queensland, Australia	09 Jul 1907	Esk, Queensland, Australia	2
Cousin	George Edward HIMSTEDT	19 May 1906	Esk, Queensland, Australia	10 Nov 1970	Mt Thompson, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia	64
Cousin	Leslie Frank HIMSTEDT	02 Jan 1908	Esk, Queensland, Australia	25 May 1925	Esk, Queensland, Australia	17
Cousin	Robert Victor HIMSTEDT	16 Apr 1913	Esk, Queensland, Australia	31 Aug 1966	Nambour, Queensland, Australia	53
Cousin	Norman Arthur HIMSTEDT	11 Oct 1906	Esk, Queensland, Australia	20 Nov 1993	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia	87
Cousin	Herbert Walter HIMSTEDT	14 Feb 1908	Esk, Queensland, Australia	10 Mar 1996	Esk, Queensland, Australia	88
Cousin	Ivy Lillian HIMSTEDT	22 Aug 1909	Esk, Queensland, Australia	12 Aug 1983	Esk, Queensland, Australia	73
Cousin	George Leslie FRANCIS	29 Sep 1915	Kumbia, Queensland, Australia	29 Sep 1915	Kumbia, Queensland, Australia	0
Cousin	Alwyn FRANCIS	25 Oct 1916	Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia	31 Mar 2002		85
Cousin	Leslie FRANCIS	15 Jun 1918	Esk, Queensland, Australia	17 Dec 1998	Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia	80
Cousin	Muriel Joyce FRANCIS	19 Apr 1920	Esk, Queensland, Australia	09 Apr 2005	Caboolture, Queensland, Australia	84
Cousin	Living or Recently Deceased
Cousin	Gladys Evelyn FRANCIS	08 Jul 1917	Kumbia, Queensland, Australia	12 Mar 1997	Batemans Bay, New South Wales, Australia	79
Cousin	Ronald James FRANCIS	11 Feb 1922	Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia
Cousin	Living or Recently Deceased
Cousin	Allan James ANDISON	16 Oct 1913	Paddington, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Cousin	Keith Francis ANDISON	13 Jul 1919	Nundah, Queensland, Australia
Cousin	Owen Francis ANDISON	17 Jul 1921	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Cousin	Lawrence FRANCIS	Sep 1919	Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia	27 Nov 1920	Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia	1
Cousin	Lewis Jack FRANCIS	13 Mar 1921	Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia	15 Nov 1979		58
Cousin	Maude FRANCIS	07 May 1923	Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia
Cousin	Living or Recently Deceased
Cousin	Living or Recently Deceased

Nephew	Living or Recently Deceased
Niece	Living or Recently Deceased
Nephew	Living or Recently Deceased
Niece	Living or Recently Deceased
Niece	Living or Recently Deceased
Niece	Living or Recently Deceased
Nephew	Living or Recently Deceased
Niece	Living or Recently Deceased
Nephew	Living or Recently Deceased
Nephew	Living or Recently Deceased
Niece	Living or Recently Deceased
Nephew	Living or Recently Deceased
Niece	Living or Recently Deceased
Nephew	Peter William WYLLIE	22 Oct 1954	Vila, New Hebrides	23 Dec 1975	Babinda, Queensland, Australia	21
Nephew	Living or Recently Deceased
Niece	Living or Recently Deceased
Niece	Living or Recently Deceased

Brother in Law	Norman Alfred SHANK	02 Dec 1917	Esk, Queensland, Australia
Sister in Law	Grace Mary BONEHAM	11 Mar 1924	Toogoolawah, Queensland, Australia
Sister in Law	Muriel Jean COTTRELL	25 Nov 1923	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Brother in Law	Living or Recently Deceased
Sister in Law	Maureen Joyce WIESE	25 Sep 1932	Laidley, Queensland, Australia	1999		67

Events in Elsie Phyllis FRANCIS (1924 - )'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
17 Aug 1924		Elsie Phyllis FRANCIS was born	Toogoolawah, Queensland, Australia		17
27 Apr 1957	32	Married John Richard BAIKIE (aged 36)	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	8297/1957	17
16 Sep 1965	41	Death of mother Elsie Rose TAYLOR (aged 69)	Biarra, Queensland, Australia		17
28 Mar 1991	66	Death of father Charles FRANCIS (aged 101)	Esk, Queensland, Australia		18

Personal Notes:

Born at Beleura Hospital in Toogoolawah, Phyllis was the fourth child of Charlie and Rose. She was enrolled at Biarra State School in August 1929 at the age of five and attended for a short period until the school closed because of lack of pupils.

At the age of eight she stayed with her Auntie Alice (Himstedt) to enable her to attend the Esk State School. In the meantime, she had correspondence lessons for a few years with her brothers and sisters at the family home 'Merton Hall Farm' at Biarra.

A year or so later, Phyllis rode, daily, the five miles from the family home to Sandy Gully State School or went in a sulky with her younger siblings and a neighbour's two children. During her last year of primary school, it was necessary to travel ten miles one day per week to attend the Toogoolawah Rural School to learn cooking and sewing. Phyllis won a State Scholarship and completed her Junior education as a boarder at Ipswich Grammar School.

At the end of her schooling, Aunt Eliza (Andison) at Northgate offered accommodation and Phyllis, who had studied commercial subjects including accounting machines, worked with various companies in Brisbane and, later, in Grafton NSW.

In 1949, having already visited Cairns, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney, she travelled for six weeks on the SS Maloja to the United Kingdom where she lived and worked for the next two years. Utilising the Youth Hostel Association amenities, she travelled throughout the United Kingdom and Europe with Australian Exchange Teachers.

Phyllis worked her passage home on the SS New Australia, a ship that brought English migrants to Australia and shared responsibility for bringing fourteen children to Australia for the Fairbridge Society. On her return, Phyllis settled and worked in Sydney. Phyllis was also a member of the Central Methodist Mission and, as a voluntary secretary, assisted with the organisation of youth camps.

Phyllis and John and their two children, Jean and Robert, moved to Parkes NSW in 1964, returning to Sydney six years later. Phyllis did casual work as a market research interviewer and subsequently in this field obtained a full time position as a payroll officer, retiring at the age ofseventy-two.

Source References:

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

- Reference = 53 (Name, Notes)

- Reference = 56 (Birth)

- Reference = 56 (Marriage)

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