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Norman WILLIS (1909 - )

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
	Norman WILLIS (1909 - ) + Margaret WHITEHORN	Frederick Chales WILLIS (1883 - 1963)	Thomas WILLIS (1838 - 1903)	William WILLIS (1798 - 1880)
				Mary (WILLIS) (1803 - 1867)
			Hannah PECK (1847 - 1893)	George PECK (1821 - )
				Ann (PECK) (1819 - )
		Teresa KNIFTON (1882 - )	Thomas KNIFTON (1840 - 1905)	Thomas KNIFTON (1806 - )
				Hannah (KNIFTON) (1812 - )
			Teresa GILBERT (1851 - 1927)
				Rachael (GILBERT) (1812 - )

b. abt 1909

m. Margaret WHITEHORN at Inverness, Inverness-shire, Scotland

Parents:

Frederick Chales WILLIS (1883 - 1963)

Teresa KNIFTON (1882 - )

Siblings (2):

Teresa WILLIS (1911 - )

Florence WILLIS (1912 - 1984)

Events in Norman WILLIS (1909 - )'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
		Married Margaret WHITEHORN	Inverness, Inverness-shire, Scotland		18
abt 1909		Norman WILLIS was born			18
1963	54	Death of father Frederick Chales WILLIS (aged 80)	Ponteland, Northumberland, England		18

Personal Notes:

"He joined the Blue Funnell Line owned by Alfred Holt and Company Liverpool shipping line (I think) as a cadet and rose through the ranks and became First Mate probably before the second war. At the outbreak of WWll he joined the Wavy Navy Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve (so called because of the wavy sleeve stripes that RNVR officers wore to differentiate them from the Royal Navy) still serving with the same company. He was twice torpedoed in the Atlantic but survived. The ships were named after rivers or towns I think and I remenber his was taken out of line for a time for a wartime film to be made with John Wayne, to keep morale up. He may have had his Masters ticket then. After the war my family used to visit him on board ship in the Pool of London when he came in. As his seniority rose so did the size of his ship. It was a large freighter latterly which could take a few passengers and sometimes his wife. As a young boy it was a fantastic day out being shown the engine room, etc. In the 1950s he was offered Commodore of the Fleet but it would have meant moving to Germany from Inverness so he stayed senior Captain until retirement. He died in his garden in Inverness about 6 months after he retired. Unfortunately he was not in contact with my mother (Florence Willis) or Tess (Willis) Taylor following the death of Fred C. Willis as he did not agree with the Will, which is another story." - per nephew Alan Stutchbury.

Source References:

18. Type: E-mail Message, Abbr: e-mails general pool, Title: e-mails general pool

- Reference = Norm Willis e-mail 5 Sep 08 (Birth)

- Reference = Norm Willis e-mail 5 Sep 08 (Name, Notes)

- Reference = Norm Willis e-mail 5 Sep 08 (Marriage)

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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