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Grace Rosalind FRANCIS (1898 - 1954)
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Grace Rosalind FRANCIS (1898 - 1954)

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Jack RUTHERFORD (1892 - 1975)
 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. 07 Nov 1898 at Wimbledon, Surrey, England
m. 1925 Jack RUTHERFORD (1892 - 1975) at Kumbia, Queensland, Australia
d. 30 Dec 1954 at Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia aged 56
Parents:
William Herbert FRANCIS (1871 - 1947)
Annie Mary DEXTER (1870 - 1949)
Siblings (2):
Elsie Winifred FRANCIS (1900 - 1998)
Arthur William FRANCIS (1905 - 1987)
Events in Grace Rosalind FRANCIS (1898 - 1954)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
07 Nov 1898 Grace Rosalind FRANCIS was born Wimbledon, Surrey, England 17
1925 27 Married Jack RUTHERFORD (aged 33) Kumbia, Queensland, Australia 17
18 Oct 1947 48 Death of father William Herbert FRANCIS (aged 76) Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia
24 Jul 1949 50 Death of mother Annie Mary DEXTER (aged 79) Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia
30 Dec 1954 56 Grace Rosalind FRANCIS died Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia 17
Personal Notes:
Grace, the elder daughter of William and Annie, was born at Wimbledon in England. After sailing from London with her family in 1909, she continued her schooling in Biarra and Esk, having been enrolled at Biarra School in January 1910 at the age of eleven years and leaving in October of the same year.

When her parents selected land at Kumbia she went north with them and did dressmaking and domestic work in Kumbia and Kingaroy. She married Jack Rutherford and they lived on their farm at Ellesmere. Jack had come to Australia from Newcastle in England and, during World War 1, he saw action in Gallipoli and France. Grace and Jack had no children.

Grace had a bright and happy nature and was very well liked. She suffered bad health for many years and was only fifty-five when she died. Jack lived without her for twenty years before he, too, passed away.
Source References:
17. Type: Book, Abbr: Francis 2000, Title: Francis 2000, Auth: Warwick & Kate Francis, Date: 2000
- Reference = 87 (Birth)
- Reference = 87 (Death)
- Reference = 87 (Marriage)
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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