Leicester Charles Wrixon ATTWATER (1904

Leicester Charles Wrixon ATTWATER (1904 - 1972)

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
Living Living Living	Leicester Charles Wrixon ATTWATER (1904 - 1972) + Mary Purvis DRUITT (1901 - 1979)	Charles Edward ATTWATER (1865 - 1940)	William ATTWATER (1826 - 1886)

			Matilda TIPPER ( - 1909)
				Elizabeth (TIPPER)
		Edith Asenath ELWORTHY (1876 - 1904)	James Baker ELWORTHY (1833 - 1889)	George ELWORTHY (1813 - 1878)
				Emma BOWCHER (1810 - 1854)
			Henrietta Sophia Jane LARGE (1846 - 1915)	William James LARGE (1806 - 1881)
				Mary Ann (Marianne) Caroline WRIXON (1819 - 1888)

b. 10 Mar 1904 at Grafton, New South Wales, Australia

m. 27 Feb 1929 Mary Purvis DRUITT (1901 - 1979) at Manly, New South Wales, Australia

d. 14 Aug 1972 at Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia aged 68

Parents:

Charles Edward ATTWATER (1865 - 1940)

Edith Asenath ELWORTHY (1876 - 1904)

Step Parents:

Kate E D CRANE (1863 - 1919)

Siblings (1):

Merlyn Edith ATTWATER (1901 - 1989)

Children (3):

Grandchildren (11):

Events in Leicester Charles Wrixon ATTWATER (1904 - 1972)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
10 Mar 1904		Leicester Charles Wrixon ATTWATER was born	Grafton, New South Wales, Australia	3311/1904
18 Mar 1904		Death of mother Edith Asenath ELWORTHY (aged 27)	Grafton, New South Wales, Australia	1359/1904
1919	15	Death of step mother Kate E D CRANE (aged 56)	Grafton, New South Wales, Australia	19441/1919
27 Feb 1929	24	Married Mary Purvis DRUITT (aged 28)	Manly, New South Wales, Australia	1645/1929
1940	36	Death of father Charles Edward ATTWATER (aged 75)	Grafton, New South Wales, Australia	5388/1940
31 Dec 1941	37	Enlisted - Army	Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
09 Sep 1942	38	Discharged
14 Aug 1972	68	Leicester Charles Wrixon ATTWATER died	Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia	57111/1972

Personal Notes:

Leicester Charles Wrixon Attwater came into the world on 10 Mar 1904 at Grafton. That year Marlene Dietrich was born and Anton Chekhov died; work began on the Panama Canal; Sydney streets were lit by electricity - and a woman was arrested in New York for smoking a cigarette in public!
By the age of 16 he had left home, working as a jackaroo in various NSW towns. At St Matthew's, Manly on 27 Feb 1929 he married Mary Purvis DRUITI and had three children, all born at Manly, NSW.
Leicester bought a property Glenward at Barrington Tops, then moved to a dairy farm four miles from Gloucester when the war started. He joined the Army, became a driving instructor and taught recruits to drive the large Army trucks.
Mary ran the farm and raised turkeys for the Red Cross. Later they lived on a cattle property near Grafton, then at Glenroc, Gunnedah, which was subsequently taken over by their son Brian and his wife Helen.
From photographs, Leicester was a very handsome man. He seemed to have inherited the Elworthy genes and looked rather like a slimmer version of his Uncle Arthur from Gundagai. In their later years, Leicester and Mary retired to Woodford and Leicester died there on 14 Aug 1972. Mary then moved down to Beecroft, a suburb of Sydney, where she died on 04 April 1979.

Service Record
Name ATTWATER, LEICESTER CHARLES WRIXON
Service Australian Army
Service Number NX81217
Date of Birth 10 Mar 1904
Place of Birth GRAFTON, NSW
Date of Enlistment 31 Dec 1941
Locality on Enlistment GLOUCESTER, NSW
Place of Enlistment PADDINGTON, NSW
Next of Kin ATTWATER, MARY
Date of Discharge 9 Sep 1942
Rank Gunner
Posting at Discharge 19 FIELD REGIMENT
WW2 Honours and Gallantry None for display
Prisoner of War No

Source References:

2. Type: Book, Abbr: Devon to Downunder, Title: Devon to Downunder, Auth: Bettie Elworthy, Publ: Bookbound, Date: 1997

- Reference = 195 (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.

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.
g.bell@bigpond.net.au
When you click the mail address abouve, if it does not open your email app, copy the address on the screen.
Geoff Bell, September 2020

Created on a Mac™ using iFamily for Mac™ on 01 Sep 2020