Ethel Violet BLACKWELL [1548]

  General Notes:

Christened at St Andrews Church, Kettering.

The Weekly Times 27 January 1917 page 37 FROM ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA. Ethel Blackwell who lives at Nar-Nar- Goon, writes. - Dear Aunt Connie-since we have been in Australia we have been taking "The Weekly Times," and I enjoy reading the Childrens page very much. Before we came to Australia we lived in England. This is the first time I have written to you, and I hope I shall be accepted as one of your nieces. I will take for my subject "When we first came to Australia". When we left Kettering, which is the name of a place where we lived, we travelled to London by train, we then took a boat from the wharfs and sailed to Teneriffe, where we stayed for a few hours. We then went to Cape Town, where we stayed a day. We arrived at Melbourne on the 6th of October, after being on the water for five weeks. The first place we went to was Allambee, which is very hilly, and it seemed so quiet up in the country after being so used to a town like Melbourne. We now live at Nar-Nar-Goon, and are now quite used to the country. My father is a bootmaker. My age is 13 years 11 months. I will close, wishing the Young Folks page every success. Please may I write again? [Yes Ethel, I will have you for a niece and you may write again-Aunt Connie]

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Residence: 47 Hemming Street, 1984, Dandenong, Victoria, Australia.

Ethel married William James JONES [1549] [MRIN: 473], son of Robert Arthur JONES [7897] and Mary Ann BROWN [7898], on 6 Aug 1924 in Dandenong, Victoria, Australia. (William James JONES [1549] was born on 5 Oct 1901 in Nar Nar Goon, Vic, Australia, died on 23 Jan 1972 in Dandenong, Victoria, Australia and was buried on 25 Jan 1972 in Springvale, Vic, Australia ²⁶⁹¹.)