12 Ancestors in 12 Months: Lilian Eveline GALBRAITH


Lilian, (Mum) was born on 22 October 1911[1], at Regent Street Camperdown, to Arthur Galbraith and Evelin Jasper. She was their second child, with Edith being her big sister. Eight more siblings would follow.


Aged 12 months.

She was baptised at St Stephen’s Newtown on 22 November 1911, confirmed and had her First Communion, at Holy Trinity, Erskineville on 19 September 1926.

                                                              St Stephen's Newtown.

Snippets Mum talked about were, attending school at Erskineville Public School, where she and some of the other girls, would ask for help with their work and then pass it on to each other, working in Allen’s Cake Shop, at Erskineville, working in a shoe factory, outings with church friends, trips to Katoomba, with her family and walking home during ‘brownouts’, in World War 2.


Mum was married twice and widowed twice. Her legacy, two daughters, four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.


Lilian, with her sister Vera.


[1] NSW Birth certificate 38534/1911.

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