It is intended that the family tree be presented in graphic form. This will happen when suitable software has been located. For now, the following are Stan’s notes regarding the family tree
Barb’s and Stan’s Early Forebears. eg Alex data
(Getting to AU must have been a major and dangerous journey and change in their lives. Many persons died and many ships lost especially around SE AU. Took a lot of guts to leave but showed desire to improve and the initiative and willingness to take risks.
Legend is Ambroses were associated with Amboise in France before French Revolution. Olwyne may add – has stained glass circular window ex? Alex has Stan DNA results with slim chance from France but Dr Ng at N. Epping noted I had a Viking syndrome in my right hand. Amboise is near Normandy named after northmen ie Vikings)
2.2 B Grand parents -4, Name, b date @ m who date @ d@ of bu @
Homes dates @ Jobs dates@ c name b date @ Church Politics
Grandmothers: Howse b 1862? @ Merthyr Tydfil, Wales m James Howse of Tullamarine, Vic. d 1905 @AU
Other died 1933 in AU
Grandfathers: James Howse b 18??
Carl Julius Mierisch b 18?? Old style gardener from Saxony, S Germany. Many siblings
2.3 B Mum and Dad. Ditto (Had WWI. Spanish flu Great Depression WW II)
DAD. “Jim”, Jules George (on Barb’s Register of Death), or Julius Alexander
(on B&S marriage certificate) -Mierisch b 1/5/1889 @? m ? d. 3/9/1967@ Royal Park Hospital, Melbourne. Siblings: “member of a very large family of good, honest, religious and dour people who reflected the ways of a Scottish mother and an old style gardener from Saxony S. Germany. #G”. Brother Jack married Rose Hollingsworth. (in 1947 caretaker @ Ormond College, UOMelbourne, nice and old, gave me some drawing paper and an old drawing board)
Another brother was George, married to Jessie, was a “liberal” who acted like the family head, lived out Camberwell area and was not happy at me being “socialistic” at 21. His children were Gordon, Melita, Charlie and Alan.
Another sibling was Annie Job,married to Andrew Job, died in 1933 and had c Albert, Nancy, and Bell
(I have a large tin transport trunk nearly a meter long and a bit battered with its latch
stamped JFM, almost certainly used in emigration to AU and Julius Franz/Fredrick? Mierisch born in ? @? Germany).
Geoff [1] indicates his dad was not a good guy. He had a slightly longer nose than normal, and was tall and well built. Stan initially felt neutral to him but lost much respect when seeing another lady before his wife died. However he had a trying tough life – WW I, Spanish Flu, not compatible with wife, raised 4 kids in Great Depression when out of work for some time. His jobs probably were not the status he would like.
He advised me on the tools I would need at Heathmont, and told me an old saying about the tree near where Barb and I slept: “A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the harder you beat them the better they be.” I took the first advice and never hit Barb and rarely the boys.
MUM. Evelyn Ellen Bernice Howse b 21/8/1891 @ ? m ? d 8?/1963 @ Coburg
. “She was very intelligent, a good pianist and had produced some better than average paintings. She was strongly attached to her parents and suffered greatly at age 14 when her mother died a sad and painful death. She lived with her father and grandfather in Moreland and was unhappy when his father wished to remarry so much so that her father delayed this action until mother finally agreed to his wish. This in itself seems to indicate a degree of passion which continued to show throughout her life. [1] .”
“We joined the church of St Michaels in N Carlton and I was in the choir as well as being a student at both morning and afternoon Sunday school. Our home was only two doors from the church so I am imagine Mother’s religious nature saw to it that we took advantage of it’s proximity. Later we attended Saint Augustine‘s Church in Davies St., Moreland. Mother had belonged to this church in her younger days and Ruth was married there.”[1]
Stan was neutral, she was tall, had Bell’s palsey, was sickly, and very pro King & Queen; and not happy with Stan and some mates with different views.
2.4 BARB Barbara Margery Mierisch b 24/5/1927 Empire Day @ Cedar Court, Glen Iris, Vic. d 21/7/1991 @ RPAH, Sydney bu. Northern Suburbs Crematorium (bush area with space for Stan).
m Stan A 26/2/1949 @ Holy Trinity Church, Coburg, Vic
c. Gregory Paul b 9/4/1950 @ Sacred Heart Hospital, Moreland, Vic.(now
John Fawkner Private H)
1st wife Marion White m 19/11/1972? b 7/5/1951 @? Divorced ?
2nd wife Blanche McMath m ?? @ London. b 11/10/1965 at? on ? c. Avril ? A b.11/7/1999 @ London. Rhys Alexander A b 11/2/2001 @ London
Warren John b 8/6/1956 @ The Poplars, Ringwood, Vic.
1st wife Shirley Morris m 14/12/1991 @ Jambaroo. b ? divorced?
2nd wife Susan Cutlin m 3/1/2021 @ Centennial-Olympic Park, Sydney.
Roger Kent. b 30/6/1960 @ Box Hill Hospital, Vic m Alexandra Wood
9/3/1991. b 4/3/1965 c twins Katherine Barbara A & Lucy Elizabeth A on
4/9/1995 @ Sydney Adventist Hospital, Wahroonga.
Siblings: Ruth b 27/1/1916 @? d 6/2007 @ Cairns. m Bill Phillips 26/2/1938 @
St Augustine Church, Moreland b 24/5/1913 d ? @ Cairns.(WW II Veteran
Milne Bay, PNG) c Marilyn b 28/11/1938 & Ross b 1947
Jean b 11/1/1919 d 3/2007@ Stawell m Murray Dall 6/12/1941. b 28/3/1917
d 11/11/2001 at Stawell (WW II Veteran PNG) c Ainslee 15/3/1949? & Sharon 6/7/1951?
Geoff b 5/2/1921 d 23/5/2001@Canberra m:
1st wife: Lilian Ashcroft 6/61942 @ Nedlands, WA. c Janine 6/6/1948 @N. Adelaide & Winsome b 24/1/1953@Carnegie, Vic (stayed with B&S late 1955/6 at Heathmont)
2nd wife: Margaret ?1960@ Malvern, Vic. b 3/10/1923 @? in 1959? b 3/10/1923. d 2007 @ Canberra. c David b 21/9/1961 and Andrew b 30/4/1963.
Started school 1925.
WW II 1939-45 RAAF – In uniform for entire WW II. Trained pilots; Beaufighter pilot PNG and north. 30 Squadron, 24/11/1944- 13/7/1945 32 operational flights; home about 1/8/1945. See much more in [1]
Stan Grandparents
Grandpa Ambrose George Ambrose. b. 10,11,1864 @ d 1912 @ North Brunswick of peritoneal sarcoma, pneumonia (? or mine explosion near Castlemaine??). m. Rose Price 17/9/1885 @ Cairns, AU Gold miner. Signwriter. Worked for labor MP Anstey. c Rose Amy 1890. Not seen by Stan
Grandma Ambrose Rose Price b 1863? in tent near Castlemaine. d 1948 Austin
Hospital, Heidelberg. 1936-48 lived at Bill and Amy O’Brien’s home, Yarraville.
Barb & Stan last saw her in A Hospital. She liked Stan according to Keith, his cousin.
Grandpa Hodges ? ? ? b ?? Chinese translator? Not poor Not seen by Stan.
Grandma Hodges. Not seen by Stan
Stan’s Parents
Dad Francis Alexander Ambrose b 30/8/1893 @Brunswick d 2/9/1981 @ Olwyne and Jim’s, Beaumaris, of emphysema & heart disease. Cremated Fawkner Cemetery COE
Sibling: Rose Amy O’Brien 1890 @West Melbourne m William Hussey O’Brien 1915ex Tasmania. d 1971? c Ruth, Amy and Keith (b 1930? m Edna Emma b 18/12/1932 d 16/10/2019)
Married:
1st wife: Ida Eleanor Baird m 22/4/1916 @ Brunswick,Vic b 1894@ ? d 1917? @ ? of kidney disease. c Francis George A b. 17/8/1916 d 1980 (Stan’s half brother)
2nd wife: Elsie Hodges m 21/10/1921 (or 24,10,1922)@ St George church in Parkville, Vic (since gone) c. son Stan 21/7/1926 and daughter Olwyne Margaret 21/9/1929.
3rd wife: Hilda Burley. m. 1966 @ Eltham,Vic b ? @ ? d 1973? @ of ? No children.
Mum. Elsie Hodges b 26/2/1895 @ North Melbourne d 3/4/1966@ Judge Book
Homes, Eltham of cancer. Buried Coburg Cemetery
Siblings: Ida, Stan (raced motorbikes), Stella, & 2 sisters? (Stan met S & S once)
Married. F A Ambrose 1921. Children: Stanley and Olwyne – see above for dad.
Stan Stanley Alexander A., b 21/7/1926 @ Queen Victoria Hospital, Swanson
St, Melbourne. d ? Mum and dad -see above. Named after Uncle Stan and dad’s 2nd
name. m 26/2/1949 (See Barb ). c (See Barb.)
Siblings: Frank George A (half brother) b 17/8/1916@ d 28/10/1980 @ Regent, Vic. of heart and liver failure. Cremated Fawkner Cemetery, Textile mechanic m Marjorie Edna Bourchier 13/4/1940 b 1/9/1920? d 9/1996 c Francis Wesley b 1941 @ Preston? d.1973? @
Fairfield , Raymond Allen b 4/6/1943 @ Preston, Ross Wayne b 1949 @ Preston
Olwyne Margaret b 21/9/1929 d – m Jim McQueen 14/12/1951 b 22/2/1923 d
21/7/2001. c Avril b 12/4/1970?, Andrew b. , Suellyn b19/10/1957