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| Marion Adelaide Alice SHROPSHIRE (1893 - 1990) |
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| Date |
Age |
Event |
Place |
Notes |
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| 14 Aug 1893 |
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Marion Adelaide Alice SHROPSHIRE was born |
Hay, New South Wales, Australia |
16850/1893 |
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| 26 Sep 1917 |
24 |
Married Harold Lewington ELWORTHY (aged 45) |
Grafton, New South Wales, Australia |
12593/1917 |
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| 22 May 1919 |
25 |
Birth of daughter Marion ELWORTHY |
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| 27 Jun 1920 |
26 |
Birth of daughter Edith ELWORTHY |
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| 12 Sep 1923 |
30 |
Birth of daughter Gladys ELWORTHY |
Grafton, New South Wales, Australia |
Army record |
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| 26 May 1925 |
31 |
Birth of daughter Betty ELWORTHY |
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| 16 May 1928 |
34 |
Death of husband Harold Lewington ELWORTHY (aged 55) |
Grafton, New South Wales, Australia |
7737/1928 |
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| 26 Aug 1929 |
36 |
Death of father John Laynton LeBrun SHROPSHIRE (aged 68) |
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
11474/1929 |
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| 26 Feb 1938 |
44 |
Married Claude Erpingham Grandpre SOBEY (aged 50) |
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
465/1938 |
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| 24 Sep 1940 |
47 |
Death of daughter Edith ELWORTHY (aged 20) |
North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
18993/1940 |
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| 1946 |
53 |
Death of mother Lillia PETHER (aged 81) |
Ryde, New South Wales, Australia |
21869/1946 |
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| Jan 1967 |
73 |
Death of husband Claude Erpingham Grandpre SOBEY (aged 79) |
St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia |
10976/1968 |
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| 02 Jan 1990 |
96 |
Marion Adelaide Alice SHROPSHIRE died |
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| Personal Notes: |
Harold was interred at Grafton Cemetery the following day after a service in the lovely Grafton Cathedral. Alice was only 35 and had the daunting task of raising the four little girls herself. The Fitzroy Street house was in her name. Harold owned 422 acres in Lanitza Parish and another 175 acres at Ulmarra, run by a share farmer.
Although his estate was reasonable, it was considerably eroded due to the large bank mortgages over the land. Money was very short and with her protective upbringing, poor Alice was ill-equipped to earn a living.
Although small in stature, she was big in determination! She learned to type then took a job with a builder, working part time to have more time with her little daughters.
Administration of the farm was undertaken by the National Bank whose 46-year-old manager Claude Erpingham Grantree SOBEY, was a tremendous help to the young widow. About November 1936 Alice moved with her girls to Sydney where she ran a shop on the beachfront at Collaroy for about a year.
Alice and Claude married at St James Church, King Street, Sydney on 26 Feb 1938. Claude became a loving father to Alice's four girls, referring to them as his "Little Princesses". Over the next 29 years the family lived at McMahon's Point, Lavender Bay and finally at Northbridge. Claude suffered several strokes and died at Greenwich Hospital in January 1967 aged 85.
Alice continued her dedication to golf, playing the game until her 90th year! She was a foundation member of Northbridge Golf Club, secretary for some time then treasurer for 14 years. Even after she gave up playing, she regularly visited the club for a game of bridge or solo and a chat with old friends.
She was a very spry, active lady who maintained her home at Northbridge not far from daughters Marion and Betty. She was adventurous too and in August 1985 went off to Ayr in balmy north Queensland to share her 92nd birthday with granddaughter Liz Donaldson.
Liz had some nursing knowledge and took care of Alice in Sydney during the last month of Alice's life. Aged 96 years and 5 months, Alice died of heart and kidney failure on 02 Jan 1990 and is buried in the same grave as Claude in Northern Suburbs Garden Cemetery. |
