Doris May Tucker

Doris May Tucker

Female 1911 -

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  • Name Doris May Tucker 
    Birth 20 Aug 1911  Balaklava, South Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Person ID I3901  Tucker Family Tree | The descendants of James Tucker
    Last Modified 2 Mar 2007 

    Father William Edmond Tucker,   b. 7 Jun 1881, Inman Hills, District Yankalilla, South Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Apr 1958, Tailem Bend, South Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Mother Eva Rose Adcock,   b. 26 Oct 1877, Hindmarsh, South Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Apr 1917, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 39 years) 
    Marriage 3 Sep 1907 
    Family ID F1160  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Percival Richard Elliott,   b. 6 Jan 1908, Gawler, South Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Nov 1988, Flinders Medical Centre, South Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years) 
    Children 
    +1. J.M. Elliott
    Family ID F1181  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 8 Jul 2022 

  • Notes 
    • Doris was brought up0 by her maternal grandparents from the age of 3 months, at the request of her mother. The day her mother died Doris remembers being taken out of school (a rare happening) and holding her grandfather's hand as she walked up to her mother's bed, kissing her mother and saying "good by: as directed and her mother saying "You will look after her, wont you?" and he agreed. The day of the funeral she rode in a horse-drawn coach with seats along the side. She wore a grey pinafore dress and white blouse with a black sash across the shoulder tied in a bow on the side.
      Some years later, Doris' father asked that Doris come back and live with him but Doris remembers her grandfather replying that he could have her if he paid back every penny it had cost to keep her. Of course Will could not do that and so Doris stayed with the Adcocks until she married. She spent school holidays with the Tuckers. They would take fruit and make jam outside in a copper. She remembers that her Auntie Lou Coulls was the person who stood and stirred it.
      She also remembers going to the Coorong to stay with her father and Ethel. They crossed at low-tide in a dray following a row of posts. Because the water came up in the dray they put their feet on boards. The house leaked and she had a miserable time. Her father brought her to the city to missionary meetings when she was a little girl but she was not interested in them as she did not understand them.
      Doris attended Croydon Primary School and then Croydon Central School where she learned cooking sewing and stencilling. She attended Hindmarsh Baptist Church and walked there three times each Sunday. She also attended Band of Hope meetings at Finsbury Baptist Church being driven there in a trap by her grandfather. She would recite and Perc would sing. Perc conducted his first Sunday School anniversary at 16. Doris and Perc were baptised on the same night by Rev Norman Hanson who later was to marry them but at the time they were not interested in each other. However, as time went on Perc started waling Doris home, leaving her several houses away, because they feared her grandmother Adcock would not approve. (Doris' grandfather had died when she was 12). Doris was not permitted to play sport, although she loved basketball, because on Saturdays she had to clean the silver.
      Doris hated school and left the day she turned 14 and worked for her Aunt Violet Mutton, hr mother's sister, who had children. She loved children and ran a Sunday School on Sunday evenings for the Adcock cousins while their parents attended church. Her Uncle Arthur Adcock got her a job at Miller Andersons. She wanted to serve but they wanted someone in the alterations. She worked there until the depression and then took up dressmaking from home. She bought a wardrobe which was kept in the front room and made frocks for 10 shillings.
      Perc and Doris travelled all over the metropolitan area with the Metropolitan Choir and Lyric Quartet (both were male choirs) and sang with the Hindmarsh Church Choir at half-yearly Baptist meetings. Perc was also a member of the Masonic lodge
      Doris made her own wedding dress, copying the design from her mothers wedding photo. She also made dresses for the bridesmaid and for many of the aunts and other guests. Doris and Perc celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary at a Sit-down dinner held at Janice's at Campbelltown; then their 50th at an open house at Janice's at Eden Hills with their full wedding party.
      After Perc's death Doris moved to Melrose Park retirement village where her family, old friends and new friends from the village. (The Tucker Family in Australia, 1992)


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