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Note for: Jean Edna MUIR, 1919 - 2 DEC 2001 Index

Alias: Edna Jean //

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Note for: Rachel HEMS, 23 OCT 1805 - 30 MAR 1880 Index

Residence:
     Place:   Church of England

Burial:
     Date:   2 APR 1880

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     Last address, Waltham St, Richmond Vic.
"AUGUSTUS CAESAR"
departed from London & Downs 10 Jul 1835
arrived at Hobart 31 Oct 1835
HP.08 1835/07/10 Wife, Rachel & daughter Rachel Ann Blackburn departed from London and Downs in ship "Augustus Caesar" leaving behind a widowed mother, Rachel (Friend) Hems with whom she had been living. This fixes the death of her father between 1833/05/16 (qv) and 1835/07/10. John Hems died 1835/01/14 (qv)

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Note for: Louisa BLACKBURN, 17 APR 1921 - Index

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I rang Louisa at 8:00 pm on Thursday 23 December 1999. She is happy to give me family information and to lend me photos, but wants me to wait until February, 2000. I said I would ring back then and make an appointment to visit her.

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Note for: Kathleen Elsie MITCHELL, 7 MAR 1912 - 27 NOV 1994 Index

Alias: Known as "Kitty" //

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Note for: Studley Manston GAHAN, 1913 - 1941 Index

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Studley Manston GAHAN - Captain VX48379 A.I.F. 2/23 Battalion, Australian Infantry. Enlisted at Caulfield, Victoria 26 July 1940, age 26 years and 7 months. Studley was the eldest child of Walter Ernest GAHAN and Alice Miriam ROURKE, husband of
Kathleen Elsie MITCHELL and 1st cousin to Geoffrey Russell GAHAN. His civilian profession was bank officer.
Studley was promoted to Captain on 26 September 1940. On 4 November 1940 he embarked on the Strathmore.
On 28 May 1941 Studley was reported "Missing". On 9 June 1941 the report states "Previously reported 'Missing' now reported 'Missing Believed Prisoner'". The report from Jerusalem is then backdated to 3 May 1942 and states that Studley Manston
GAHAN was "Killed in Action".
Studley Manston GAHAN's memorial is at the Alamein Memorial, Egypt, Column 91.

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Note for: Suzanne Marie DAVIS, 3 FEB 1973 - Index

Alias: Known as "Suzi" //

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At one time Co-ordinator for the Victorian Gymnastics Federation.

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Note for: Jessica Catherine Blackburn BENNETT, 21 SEP 1996 - Index

Residence:
Place: Roman Catholic

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Note for: Jean Emma STAHL, 13 OCT 1911 - 15 FEB 1979 Index

Occupation:
     Place:   Hairdresser, Home Duties after marriage

Residence:
     Place:   Church of Christ

Burial:
     Date:   16 FEB 1979
     Place:   Boroondara Cemetery, Kew, Vic. (Wall 20, B1)

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     Biography compiled by (Person ID 2565) Thelma Cannon and transcribed by JAB in June 1992. This file commenced October 3, 1992
JEAN EMMA STAHL was born on 13 October 1911 in Kalgoorlie WA. A few weeks later her mother took the family to Fremantle while her father worked at Gwalia (near Leonora WA.) She commenced school at the White Gum Valley School where her sister
Jess was a teacher, then continued at South Terrace, Fremantle, Kalgoorlie Central School until 6th standard and then Kalgoorlie High School. She was apprenticed in hairdressing with Mr Scheele in Kalgoorlie. When she qualified with a diploma
she started a salon in Boulder and operated until 1932 when she went to Melbourne to join her father.
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Apparently Charles William Stahl had a business of some sort in Frankston; possibly a cake shop. Jean lived there and kept house for him at one period, but the details are obscure as they are based on my vague memories of conversations 55 years
ago. For some time before he died of cancer on 15 August 1935 she had looked after him at the family home at 201 Bastings St Northcote. He had a Ford V8 car known as "Henry" which Jean drove. After he died it was sold following family pressure.
I remember Jean saying that the family thought it unseemly for a young girl to be driving around in such a powerful car and that she was liable to kill herself. Probably the financial cost of its upkeep was a factor.
In March 1933 (probably Sat.11th following Joy Stahl's 21st birthday on 8 Mar 1933) Jean met Joy Stahl for the first time and sang at the party held in the Essendon High School hall. She sang two songs based on A.A.Milne's "Winnie the Pooh"
stories which has been set to music by one of her musical associates in Western Australia (Kalgoorlie ?) She also sang at the Joy Stahl - Syd Broadway wedding at the Camberwell Methodist Church on 11 April 1936. This information was given to me
by Joy on October 20, 1992.
August 8, 1994 from letter LCF572.R.Cannon
While going through my Stahl folder with Geoff Walker I realized that some old drainage plans of houses built by Charles William Stahl contained some previously undisclosed information. The plans relate to houses in the same general area as the
Stahl family home at 201 Bastings St, Northcote Vic.and are dated Sept 1923 - Sept 1924 and Jan - May 1927. C Stahl is listed as the owner or, in some instances, as agent. The 1923-4 houses were scattered around the area but the 1927 ones are
all in Elms Avenue (now Slater St) which runs along side the old family home at 201 (formerly 261) Bastings St, Northcote.
This has enabled me to make a guess at that part of the family history which was not openly discussed. I know that Jean went back to Kalgoorlie from Fremantle when she was 11 years old. She turned 11 on 13 Oct 1922. I was given to understand
that Charles William Stahl returned to Victoria to safeguard his interest in the family estate. This is confirmed by the drainage plan DP133039, dated 11 Sep 1923, issued to C Stahl, 261 Bastings St, Northcote, owner. The 1924 houses were in
the same general area but were not, as far as I know, part of the family estate. The matriarch of the family, Elizabeth Jane Stephens STAHL, died on 5 June 1925. With one exception all of the 1927 houses were in Elms Ave (renamed Slater St)
which was Stahl land. Jean and I lived in one of them from Sept 1938 until 1962, Alice Maude Mary Stahl died at Kalgoorlie on 1931/10/08 (1931/08/15?) and Jean came to Melbourne where she sang at her cousin, Joy Stahl's 21st birthday in March
1933. At some stage she lived at Frankston Vic. where her father had a shop. Charles William Stahl died at Northcote on 15 Aug 1935.
"The Luncheon Girls"
Gwen Dickens
Thelma Duncan (husband Jack)
Blanche Davies (nee Fontaine)
Joyce Crozier
Eunice Oxnam
Jean Blackburn

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Note for: Waverley REID, BEF 15 AUG 1931 - Index

Alias: Called "Bibby" //

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Note for: Madelyn Ruth CAMPBELL, 31 JUL 1999 - Index

Christening:
     Date:   12 DEC 1999
     Place:   St Theresa's RC Church, Essendon, Vic.

Individual Note:
     Born in the Freemasons' Hospital, Victoria Parade, East Melbourne at 3:05 pm on Saturday 31st July, 1999. Birth weight 8 lb 6 oz.

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Note for: Terence George BENNETT, 13 JAN 1952 - Index

Occupation:
     Place:   Principal, Wantirna College

Residence:
     Place:   Roman Catholic

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     Education:
Whitefriars College, Rusden Teachers' College, Monash University
Roman Catholic