Nellie Grace SMITH

[lilun]

Hi, I'm hoping you can help find any further information on my Great Aunt Nellie Grace Smith born 1897 Croydon Surrey England, parents William Smith and Mary Jane Haddow.
She emigrated to Australia sometime between 1917 - 1925.
She was an army nurse in Boulogne 1917 and I have a photos of her on a beach somewhere in Australia in 1925 and another with her partner, Peter, in 1938. All information we have about him is his first name and that he may of been italian.
I also have a postcard of St John's C of E Cathedral which she states she attended every Sunday from her address: 207, Wharf St, Brisbane, Queensland.
According to what we know she died 18th August 1940. I have located a possible death record for a Helen Grace Smith 1940 and two possible electoral rolls for 1934 but I have been unable to find anything else.
Any help would be appreciated.
Regards
Deb

[~MERLIN~]

Removed in error 

[lilun]

Father William Smith - Mother Mary Jane Haddow

[ennael]

There is this registration in NSW, a long way from Brisbane.

12072/1940 
SMITH  Helen  Grace
2O YRS Griffith   
Registered at Griffith.

Leanne

[lilun]

Hi Leanne,
Does the '20yrs' apply to age? If so it isn't her I'm afraid, she was born in 1897 making her 43/44 when she died
Thanks anyway
Deb

[Aussie1947]

Hi,

207 Wharf st Brisbane was 'Greenmount' boarding house during that era.

Interesting that there was a Nellie Brown, dressmaker residing there in 1922 and 1934, but cant see a Nellie Grace Smith at Greenmount in the 1922 & 1934 electoral rolls.

Regards
Gerry

[ennael]

The 20 years could be an indication of age, it may be an indication of how long this Nellie had been in the country, if she was a migrant, it certainly indicates that whomever  registered this death did not know the  family details for this lady.
Someone will be along to explain it better I am sure.
I can see no corresponding death registration in QLD for 1940.
Leanne

[~MERLIN~]

In 1920 there was an ex WWI soldier from Brisbane applying for his fiancee's passage to Australia:

Ex No 13402 Dvr Robert Harold Jones ACMT - Passage for fiancee Miss Grace Nellie Smith.

http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/using/search/

His service record is online:

http://mappingouranzacs.naa.gov.au/details-permalink.aspx?barcode_no=1821883

[lilun]

Thanks to you all for your interesting replies.

Gerry - she could possibly have been boarding there but under her partners name maybe?

Leanne - I don't know if her partner Peter would have known her parents names, he knew her sisters, Edith and Dorothy, as I have the letter he wrote them in July 1942. He mentions she died 18th August and we figured slow mail being wartime she died 1940, so it possibly could be 1940/41.

Merlin - The passage could possibly be her but I'm struggling to find the relationship between the soldier and her, as far as we know she never married