Samuel Abner Simpson Edward HILL [3362]

   Another name for Samuel was Abner HILL.

  General Notes:

In 1924 the Hill's were living in Tooradin, Victoria, Australia. Abner's father is listed as postmaster at Tooradin in the electoral roll of that year.

Abner died intestate and his furniture and effects were valued at £22 5s 6p on 11 February 1926 when probate was granted. The probate documents state that Edward John Abner Hill was in the care of Mrs R Lush of Yarragon, and the other three children were in the care of their grandfather Edward Hill at this time, however it is known that the children had been in the care of Alfred Dawes and the Morgan sisters at the time of Hilda Maude's death in November 1925 and that their paternal grandfather, Edward Hill came and took the children away, despite their father's express verbal wishes that the children not be given into the custody of his father.

It is thought that Edward Hill put the children into an orphanage shortly afterwards. Many years later when Dora Dawes tracked down her nieces and nephews and visited them, they asked why the Dawes's hadn't come to the orphanage to collect them. Dora explained to them that the Dawes family had no idea where the Hill children went after they were taken from the Dawes family by their paternal grandfather.

The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Fri 31 Jul 1925 Page 1
Family Notices
HILL.\emdash On the 30th July, at the Warragul Hospital, Abner, dearly loved husband of Maud Hilda, and father of Edith, John, Rosie, and Adelaide (of Garfield), eldest son of E. Simpson and Charlotte Hill (late of Tooradin, Dalmore, and Iona), brother of Queenie (Mrs. G.Gaskett), Roland (deceased), Crissy (Mrs. J. H.Easby), Dudley, Rosie (Mrs. C. W. Lush), Arthur, and Ivy (Mrs. B. W. Knight), aged 40 years.
After suffering, rest.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2148863

The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954) Fri 30 Jul 1926 Page 1
Family Notices
HILL - In loving memory of our eldest son, brother, and father, S. A. (Abner), who departed
this life at the Warragul Hospital, on the 30th July, 1925; also his wife, Maud Hilda, who died
at the same place on the 22nd November, 1926.
Both reunited. After long suffering- rest.
-Inserted by his loving parents, brothers, sisters and children.

HILL - In loving memory of my eldest brother, Abner, who passed away at Warragul Hospital,
on the 30th July, 1925; also Maud, his loving wife, on the 22nd November, 1925. both went before they had time to say good-bye.
The end was sudden and painful,
The shock to all left was severe,
We little thought that death was so near.
Gone to a home of rest, where no grief or pain
can harm you again: but it is pain for all of us
to think we could not get there in time to say
good-bye to you, dear Abner and Maud, and our darling daddy and mama.
- Inserted by your loving sister and sister-in-law, and brother-in-law and two nieces, Crissie and Jack, Easby, Lillian and Mavis, also their dear children, Edith, John, Rose, Adelaide, 48 Wellington-parade, East Melbourne.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/202548716

Samuel married Hilda Maud MORGAN DAWES [1841] [MRIN: 1020], daughter of Alfred Thomas DAWES [1278] and Frances Mary Ann MORGAN [1288], on 15 Dec 1909 in Richmond, Victoria, Australia. (Hilda Maud MORGAN DAWES [1841] was born on 23 Feb 1888 in Richmond, Victoria, Australia,²⁸⁹⁷ died on 22 Nov 1925 in Warragul, Victoria, Australia ^2898,2899 and was buried on 24 Nov 1925 in Bunyip, Vic, Australia.)