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Helen Dorothy ATKINSON (1913 - 1989)
Excellent dressmaker
Children Self + Spouses Parents Grandparents Greatgrandparents
Julian F ELY (1939 - 1958)
John Laurence ELY (1942 - 2014)
Living
Living
Helen Dorothy ATKINSON (1913 - 1989)

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John (Jack) William ELY (1914 - 1961)

William Lionel Richmond BROWNE
Harry Henry ATKINSON (1891 - 1918) Henry ATKINSON (1859 - 1928) John ATKINSON
Hannah GILL
Emily NEWTON (1868 - 1949) William NEWTON (1839 - )
Elizabeth BARBER (1841 - 1897)
Lillian Margaret Ann MADDEN (1894 - 1977) Julian John Edward MADDEN (1869 - 1954) Henry St.John MADDEN (1840 - 1922)
Isabella Bowcher ELWORTHY (1842 - 1921)
Helen Mutch DIACK (1874 - 1946) John Craigen DIACK (1850 - 1929)
Margaret MUNRO (1845 - 1909)
Helen Dorothy ATKINSON John (Jack) William ELY

Helen Dorothy ATKINSON
Helen Dorothy ATKINSON John (Jack) William ELY Helen Dorothy ATKINSON
b. 27 Nov 1913 at Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia
m. (1) 1938 John (Jack) William ELY (1914 - 1961) at Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia
m. (2) 15 Nov 1969 William Lionel Richmond BROWNE at Queensland, Australia
d. 11 Nov 1989 at Mackay, Queensland, Australia aged 75
Parents:
Harry Henry ATKINSON (1891 - 1918)
Lillian Margaret Ann MADDEN (1894 - 1977)
Step Parents:
Francis James HURLEY (1890 - 1966)
Siblings (4):
Mavis Beatrice Florence ATKINSON (1916 - 2010)
Gladys Lillian Maud Joy HURLEY (1921 - 2000)
Children (4):
Julian F ELY (1939 - 1958)
John Laurence ELY (1942 - 2014)
Grandchildren (7):
Events in Helen Dorothy ATKINSON (1913 - 1989)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
27 Nov 1913 Helen Dorothy ATKINSON was born Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia 1913/C008117
12 May 1918 4 Death of father Harry Henry ATKINSON (aged 26) Ayr, Queensland, Australia Certificate
1938 25 Married John (Jack) William ELY (aged 24) Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia 1938/C4245
1939 26 Birth of son Julian F ELY Mt Isa, Queensland, Australia
20 Oct 1942 28 Birth of son John Laurence ELY Mt Isa, Queensland, Australia
1943 30 Residence Mt Isa, Queensland, Australia Simpson St
1949 36 Residence Mackay, Queensland, Australia 17 Symonds St
27 Dec 1958 45 Death of son Julian F ELY (aged 19) Babinda, Queensland, Australia 1959/000201
1961 48 Death of husband John (Jack) William ELY (aged 47) Mackay, Queensland, Australia 1961/5504 (Jack William)
1966 53 Death of step father Francis James HURLEY (aged 76) Mackay, Queensland, Australia 1966/C4205
15 Nov 1969 55 Married William Lionel Richmond BROWNE Queensland, Australia
14 Nov 1977 63 Death of mother Lillian Margaret Ann MADDEN (aged 83) Sandgate, Queensland, Australia
11 Nov 1989 75 Helen Dorothy ATKINSON died Mackay, Queensland, Australia
Personal Notes:
Lived at Mt Isa after marriage.

Made wedding gowns and ball gowns. She had shop in Cloncurry. Mavis helped with some of the handsewing finishing off.

Called Nell as a child. The only one who could stand up to her was Frank.

Met Jack in Mt Isa. Married in Cloncurry. A Fashionable wedding. Reception at home in a house with three verandahs - had a piano. Helen played - all the latest songs. Sing around the piano of a Saturday-Sunday night - the in circle. To flirt with the boys.
Source References:
2. Type: Book, Abbr: Devon to Downunder, Title: Devon to Downunder, Auth: Bettie Elworthy, Publ: Bookbound, Date: 1997
- Reference = 154 (Name, Notes)

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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