Isabel SIMMERS (1872

Isabel SIMMERS (1872 - 1961)

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
Vivienne WILLIAMS (1898 - ) Isabel WILLIAMS (1899 - ) Llewellyn WILLIAMS (1901 - ) Edith WILLIAMS (1907 - ) Ada Myliss WILLIAMS (1912 - ) Margery WILLIAMS (1916 - )	Isabel SIMMERS (1872 - 1961) + Edwin Cyril WILLIAMS	James SIMMERS (1828 - 1916)



		Mary ANGAS (1841 - 1881)	James A ANGAS

			Isabella CAMPBELL (1819 - 1891)	Ephraim CAMPBELL
				Mary (CAMPBELL)

b. 01 Aug 1872 at Adelong, New South Wales, Australia

m. 1897 Edwin Cyril WILLIAMS at Tumut, New South Wales, Australia

d. 20 Jan 1961 at Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia aged 88

Parents:

James SIMMERS (1828 - 1916)

Mary ANGAS (1841 - 1881)

Siblings (4):

George William SIMMERS (1873 - )

Barbara Jane SIMMERS (1874 - )

Mary SIMMERS (1879 - )

Sarah SIMMERS (1881 - )

Children (6):

Vivienne WILLIAMS (1898 - )

Isabel WILLIAMS (1899 - )

Llewellyn WILLIAMS (1901 - )

Edith WILLIAMS (1907 - )

Ada Myliss WILLIAMS (1912 - )

Margery WILLIAMS (1916 - )

Events in Isabel SIMMERS (1872 - 1961)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
01 Aug 1872		Isabel SIMMERS was born	Adelong, New South Wales, Australia		6
1881	9	Death of mother Mary ANGAS (aged 40)	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia		6
1897	25	Married Edwin Cyril WILLIAMS	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia		69
1898	26	Birth of daughter Vivienne WILLIAMS	Adelong, New South Wales, Australia		69
1899	27	Birth of daughter Isabel WILLIAMS	Adelong, New South Wales, Australia		69
1901	29	Birth of son Llewellyn WILLIAMS	Adelong, New South Wales, Australia		69
1907	35	Birth of daughter Edith WILLIAMS	Adelong, New South Wales, Australia		69
1912	40	Birth of daughter Ada Myliss WILLIAMS	Adelong, New South Wales, Australia		69
1916	44	Birth of daughter Margery WILLIAMS	Adelong, New South Wales, Australia		69
10 Jun 1916	43	Death of father James SIMMERS (aged 88)	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia		6
20 Jan 1961	88	Isabel SIMMERS died	Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia		69

Personal Notes:

ISABEL WILLIAMS nee Simmers

by Annette Hassett

lsabel was born at the home of her grandmother lsabella Speers in Camp Street Adelong on 1 August 1872, the eldest daughter of James and
Mary Simmers. James came to Australia from Aberdeen Scotland where he was a pastrycook and after working in the Victorian goldfields owned a flour mill at Gilmore and later in Tumut. She was educated at James private school in Adelong, where she met her future husband Edwin Cyril Williams.

They were married in 1897 at St. Stephens Tumut, where her father was an elder for many years. Before marriage she worked as a shop assistant at her uncle's (David Watson's) general store at Grahamstown.

lsabel and Edwin had a family of six children. They were Vivienne (Mrs Clive Hammond), lsabel (Mrs Theo Brissenden), Llewelyn (married Edna Ballantyne), Edith (Mrs Morrie Bernhardt), Ada (Mrs Edward Hassett) and Margery (Mrs Bill Dixon).

Evenings were spent singing around the piano, always beginning with her husband's favourite 'Men of Harlech'. lsabel was a very musical lady with a beautiful singing voice. She played the piano, violin and organ, and was the organist at both St. Stephens Presbyterian Church Tumut and St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church Adelong from aged 17 to well into her 80's.

After their marriage, lsabel and Edwin first ran a newsagency in Temora, then later settled in Tumut Street then Camp Street Adelong. A skilled dressmaker, lsabel sewed all the children's clothing.

Whilst living with her daughter Ada Hassett at Little Plain Grahamstown she was practising the organ for the harvest festival at church when she suffered a cerebral stroke, leaving her without a memory and the church without an organist for the Sunday service. She was cared for by her family until her death in a nursing home in Hurstville on 20 January 1961 and is buried in the Adelong cemetery.

Source References:

6. Type: Book, Abbr: Queanbeyan Register, Title: Biographical register of Canberra and Queanbeyan: from the district to the Australian Capital Territory 1820-1930, Auth: Peter Proctor, Publ: The Heraldry & Genealogical Society of Canberra, Date: 2001

- Reference = 292 (Name, Notes)

- Reference = 292 (Birth)

69. Type: Book, Abbr: Relict of, Title: Relict of … Lives of Pioneering Women of Tumut and District, Auth: Tumut Family History Group, Publ: Tumut Family History Group, Date: 2001

- Reference = 46 (Marriage)

- Reference = 46 (Death)

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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