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John and Julie Tucker Family History
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| Name |
Alice Melvina Pearl Smith |
| Birth |
9 Jan 1908 |
Jeparit, Victoria, Australia  |
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Female |
| Person ID |
I5641 |
Tucker Family Tree | The descendants of James Tucker |
| Last Modified |
2 Mar 2007 |
| Father |
John Duncan Ernest Smith, b. 21 Jan 1882, Hoyleton, South Australia, Australia d. 24 Jun 1937, 20 Bowen Street,Hawthorn Victoria Australia (Age 55 years) |
| Mother |
Eliza Jane Semple, b. 28 Oct 1888, Dimboola, Victoria, Australia d. 29 Jun 1956 (Age 67 years) |
| Marriage |
31 Jan 1905 |
Jeparit, Victoria, Australia [1, 2] |
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Marriage Registration Transcription - John Duncan Ernest Smith and Eliza Jane Semple
John Duncan Ernest Smith Married eliza Jane Semple 1905, in Victoria. |
| Family ID |
F1709 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Know as Melva. At 14 Melva lived in Mildura. Once they went to Piangal near Swan Hill. They had trotters. (she is still interested in trotting). They set up a Cafe at Meertine serving 200 meals a day. They went from Ouyen to Piangal, camping overnight. Floods crossed the road. They got all of the women to the other side of the river and a bull charged the trotter. Her father shot the bull (which was a crime as it was not legal to shoot any one else's cattle).
Piangal was a great fishing place and on a direct line to Loolnan, a soldiers' settlement, by train. They were given land but it was sandy soil. She can remember a young wife with a little baby who died from dehydration. Her father made the coffin for the baby.
Melva went to Mildura High School by "drag" (six horses pulled a covered dray). She recalled stealing some oranges and being made to walk five miles home as punishment. (The Tucker Family in Australia, 1992)
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| Sources |
- [S1] Cynthis Henley-Smith, The Tucker Family in Australia, (Gillingham Printers Pty Ltd Adelaide, South Australia), Jun 1992, 441 (Reliability: 3).
Married 31 Jan 1905, Jeparit, Vic.
- [S14] Department of Justice, Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages, Victoria, Edwardian Index, Victoria 1902 - 1913, (Macbeth Genealogical Services Pty Ltd), 1905, 438/1905 (Reliability: 3).
See attached Marriage registration transcription for John and Eliza Smith.
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