12 Ancestors in 12 Months: September. Frederick Charles SIGRIST
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 scratch,’ he continued to work. This was
early March 1930. By 3 April 1930[3] he
was dead, aged just 39, leaving a wife and two small children. Edna was nine
and Joan six months. That simple scratch turned into cellulitis of the knee and
pyaemia, what we call blood poisoning. He was buried on their 10th
wedding anniversary.
Elsie and Fred.
Bye for now,
Lilian.
[1]
NSW Birth certificate 38355/1890.
[2]
NSW Marriage certificate 3641/1919.
[3]
NSW Death certificate 6014/1930.
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