|
a.
|
Note: --------------------------
Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922
Name: Nellie R Wilson
Birth Date: 1905
Birth Place: New South Wales
Registration Year: 1905
Registration Place: Inverell, New South Wales, Australia
Father: James C Wilson
Mother: Ruth
Registration Number: 23916
---------------------------
Catholic Press (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1942), Thursday 30 October 1919, page 38
ST. BRIGID'S CONVENT, COONAMBLE.
At the theory examination, conducted by the Conservatorium of Music, on September 18 last, 24 candidates from St. Brigid's Convent, Coonamble, presented themselves. Word has been received that all were highly successful - ten honours being gained out of a possible 17 between Grades III and IV. The following are the results: Grade III.: Honours, Beryl Alexander, Olive Elliott, Lizzie McQuillen; pass, Maggie Gillett, Emmie Page. Grade IV.: Honours, Mary Farrell, Lily Hammond, Gwendoline Gilligan, Beryl Gilligan, Nellie Wilson, Nellie Pedley, Linda Keating; pass, Clare Rigney, Grace Meagher, Gerty Farrell, Mollie Spence, Mickey Saap. Grade V.: Frank McCarry, Dennise McCarry, Edith Warnock, Molly Needham, Nora Galvin, Brenda McMahon, Mavis Pedley.
--------------------------
Nellie Ruth Wilson first met Gordon Keith Bryson at the bank in Coonamble. She moved to Burwood in Sydney in 1939 where she married Gordon on 22 Apr 1939, in the church next door to where they were to live their married lives together at Flat 5/50 Belmore Street, Burwood.
She worked for AMP Insurance as a rep and walked miles and miles selling insurance. She also worked at Murray's Department Store and Mansour's manchester store where she worked as a pay clerk and switchboard operator, arranging the curtain hanging appointments until she retired when she was 79. She knew Eugene & John Mansour personally, and had often gone to their homes for dinner. Mansour's valued her so highly that she was asked to go back to work after she retired to relieve on the switchboard when their new operator was away on holidays. She refused as her health was failing. She suffered from bad circulation and angina and could not walk very far without becoming exhausted, even though Mansour's was only around the corner in Burwood Road from where she lived. Nellie had a great sense of humour and the week before she passed away she informed her family not to publish her real age in the newspapers as she had lied about her age when she started her job.
Nellie passed away on 25th May 1988, after getting a terrible bout of the flu. Her husband, Gordon, had passed away 20 years earlier on 15th June, 1968, from a massive heart attack. They never had children of their own but loved all their nieces and nephews dearly and were always very generous with birthday and Christmas gifts. She was like a mother to her niece Joan, whom she helped to raise as a young child, due to her sister Lucy contracting Parkinson's Disease.
Nellie had a wicked sense of humour and easily fitted in anywhere.
Submitted by Susan Margaret Ecob
--------------------------
Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950
Name: Nellie Ruth Wilson
Spouse Name: Gordon Keith Bryson
Marriage Date: 1939
Marriage Place: New South Wales
Registration Place: Burrowa*, New South Wales
Registration Year: 1939
Registration Number: 12503
*Transcription error for Burwood
--------------------------
|
