Ernest Ligouri SLATER [12934] ⁹⁰³⁸

  General Notes:

I only discovered Ernest when I found a newspaper article at his cousin sending him a letter from the front in WW1, this led me to investigate and find out who the cousin E Slater who was living in Jennings Street, Kyneton was. This led me to find the birth of Ernest Slater to Eliza Slater in 1884. Illegitimate is written in big letters in the father's section of the birth. Ernest was born at Black Hill, probably at his grandparents place. When Ernest marries, he gives John Slater and Caroline Johnson as his parents, though they are his grandparents. It is highly likely that he was raised as the child of John and Caroline and he may not have known that Eliza was his mother.

On the birth of his last child in 1919, Ernest was named as Ernest Ligouri Slater. He is also called Ernest Ligouri Slater on his death certificate which states that he had lived in Victoria for 51 years and in NSW for 30 years. His occupation is given as Grocery store proprietor and his usual residence was 14 Grattan Street Carlton.

Ernest married Annie Agnes QUINLAN [12935] [MRIN: 4585], daughter of John QUINLAN [12947] and Margaret LILLIS [12943], on 16 Jan 1907 in Northcote, Victoria, Australia.⁹⁰³⁷ (Annie Agnes QUINLAN [12935] was born in 1880 and died in 1960 in Carlton, Victoria, Australia.)