Lilian's Tree

As I promised in the May Ancestor post on,  Elsie Ironside.  Here is the story of her husband. Frederick Charles Sigrist was born 18 September 1890 [1] , to Frederick Sigrist and Mary Ann Hudson. He was their fourth child. The family had a bakery in Denison Street, Woollahra.                                                                                                                     Frederick Charles Sigrist. I don’t know anything about Fred’s childhood or how he met Elsie, things we should have asked Mum about. On 5 April 1919 [2] he married Elsie Minnie Ironside, at St Michael’s Church, Flinders Street, Surry Hills. Their first child, a daughter, Edna, was born in May 1920 and in November 1929 a second daughter, Joan was born. The family was living at Fairmount Street, Lakemba, at this time. Fred worked as a telephone mechanic and whilst he was installing their phone, running the wire under the house, he scratched his knee. Thinking that it was ‘just a