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Muriel Joyce FRANCIS (1920 - 2005)

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
Living Living Living Living Living	Muriel Joyce FRANCIS (1920 - 2005) + Robert McBirnie LAFFERTY (1918 - 1945) Thomas Ford DAVIS (1907 - 1980)	George FRANCIS (1885 - 1986)	James FRANCIS (1856 - 1938)	Joseph FRANCIS (1827 - 1909)
				Ellen HEATHFIELD (1833 - 1886)
			Elizabeth YOUNG (1856 - 1915)	William YOUNG
				Theresa JERRARD (1830 - )
		Harriet May TAYLOR (1894 - 1959)	George TAYLOR (1864 - )
			Harriet PARSONS

b. 19 Apr 1920 at Esk, Queensland, Australia

m. (1) 11 Apr 1942 Robert McBirnie LAFFERTY (1918 - 1945) at Maryborough, Queensland, Australia

m. (2) 24 Mar 1948 Thomas Ford DAVIS (1907 - 1980) at Maryborough, Queensland, Australia

d. 09 Apr 2005 at Caboolture, Queensland, Australia aged 84

Parents:

George FRANCIS (1885 - 1986)

Harriet May TAYLOR (1894 - 1959)

Siblings (4):

George Leslie FRANCIS (1915 - 1915)

Alwyn FRANCIS (1916 - 2002)

Leslie FRANCIS (1918 - 1998)

Children (5):

Events in Muriel Joyce FRANCIS (1920 - 2005)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
19 Apr 1920		Muriel Joyce FRANCIS was born	Esk, Queensland, Australia		17
11 Apr 1942	21	Married Robert McBirnie LAFFERTY (aged 23)	Maryborough, Queensland, Australia		17
16 Jul 1945	25	Death of husband Robert McBirnie LAFFERTY (aged 27)	Bougainville		17
24 Mar 1948	27	Married Thomas Ford DAVIS (aged 40)	Maryborough, Queensland, Australia		17
05 Sep 1959	39	Death of mother Harriet May TAYLOR (aged 65)	Kumbia, Queensland, Australia		17
27 Apr 1980	60	Death of husband Thomas Ford DAVIS (aged 72)	Atherton, Queensland, Australia		17
11 Sep 1986	66	Death of father George FRANCIS (aged 100)	Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia		18
09 Apr 2005	84	Muriel Joyce FRANCIS died	Caboolture, Queensland, Australia

Personal Notes:

Muriel was born in Esk, the elder daughter of George and May Francis. She did all her schooling at Kumbia after which, for a short period, she assisted her mother at home. Around that time her sporting relaxation was tennis, a game which she played particularly well. Muriel was also secretary of the Kumbia Croquet Club for a time. Later, obtaining a position on the staff of the Maryborough Base Hospital, she met and married Bob Lafferty of Coolabunia, who was killed in action on Bougainville in July 1945. There was one child of the marriage, Janet. At the time Muriel and Tom were married, Tom conducted the Post Office at Scarness. After some years, they moved to Atherton in North Queensland with their family which eventually numbered five, including Janet. Muriel worked for some time with the TAB. After Tom died, Muriel came back to Kingaroy and spent about three years caring for her father in his closing years. She then returned to North Queensland to live with some of her family. She has derived a great deal ofenjoymentfrom playing bridge at which she is quite adept - it is still one of her main recreations. In 2000 she was living at Morayfield still travelling whenever possible with the local bridge club.

Source References:

17. Type: Book, Abbr: Francis 2000, Title: Francis 2000, Auth: Warwick & Kate Francis, Date: 2000

- Reference = 40 (Marriage)

- Reference = 40 (Birth)

- Reference = 40 (Marriage)

- Reference = 38 (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

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