More on Hiding in Tasmania

[sparrett]

Oh those are interesting, well found!

It's late here now but I'll go through Then Awake Sea Lake tomorrow and try to follow the trail of who owned what.  The person who wrote the book belongs to the family who owned the business right alongside the Coffee Palace, he pointed out that Mrs Maydwell place had entrances on two streets and wrapped around the back of the corner shop, his family's business. 

I speak to another very helpful person who lives in Sea Lake now too and she's been out taking photos so I can see what the area looks like now, but I think the author is the one who will have all this old information if I need any gaps filling.  I know he's travelling at the moment but once I have as much as I can find in the book I can always ask him...

The photograph circa 1910's makes the Coffee Palace seem to be a section of a large corner building and shared with other businesses.
It will be interesting to have the historic information of the place from the book.

Sue

[sparrett]

Also...
Perhaps you already have family photos, but this Qld State Library file purports to hold letters and photos of Ian Christian Maydwell. During WW1.

Have you seen them?
It is possible Ian Christian Maydwell, as he was known on enlistment, could have mentioned his mother’s doings in the letters? She was his NOK on enlistment, so one assumes there was contact

Letters from Ian Christian Maydwell to Harriet Amy Purvis during his service ww1.

Summary of contents
https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/255330831?keyword=%22maydwell%22

https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/guide/32751/details#SR32751-5

You could try this service to access the content in more detail.
https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/services/ask-librarian

Harriet married in 1921 to James Augustus Sexton
Harriet A Purvis
James A Sexton
1921/4964

Sue

[Ranolki]

Sorry, I’m away for the weekend and just looking in. 

I haven’t actually seen those papers but I know they are mainly a couple of postcards and a pile of empty envelopes addressed by Ian to Harriet.  I think Ian met Harriet just before he enlisted in the AIF when he was working at a hospital in Sydney.  They carried on their correspondence throughout the war but it obviously didn’t work out (if in fact there was some sort of romantic intent there) and each of them married other people.  It would have been great to see the original letters! 

Harriet’s mother was great friends with a man who was a reasonably famous illustrator and cartoonist and I think the papers were preserved in connection with him somehow.  I’ve seen the photo, it’s a portrait of Ian in his army uniform.

[david.povey5]

Christiana Whitfield was my great great grandmother

Christiana WHITFIELD 1868-1951
William Christian I'ANSON 1890-1967
Son of Christiana WHITFIELD
Ianthy Ethel MAYDWELL 1922-2016
Daughter of William Christian I'ANSON
Neil Alan POVEY
Son of Ianthy Ethel MAYDWELL
David Neil POVEY
You are the son of Neil Alan POVEY

In 2020, by chance I found a book (can't remember the title) on Sea Lake and ordered through the Uni of Adel, and it had multiple images and information on Christiana....

[PatLac]

This book has just been published.

https://www.brownsbfs.co.uk/Product/Bailey-Joanna/Mrs-Maydwells-Coffee-Palace/9781917673471

[david.povey5]

Got an email from Joanna about the release of this earlier this week..... fact with fiction

[david.povey5]

Í am wondering how people on here knew about Christina's suicide?

[Lucy2]

Í am wondering how people on here knew about Christina's suicide?

 Hello .... welcome to RootsChat.   

 Try the following link for more on Christina >
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=878883.msg7688168#msg7688168

   ~  Lu

PS:   Just scrolling through that link ^  and noticed that you'd visited it previously. 

[david.povey5]

I was the person from who supplied the family story handed down about Christina, which was found in a Bamix box after my mother's death in 2007, which contains various family research from her father's family (Coutts). At some point she began to gather information on my father's side of the family (Povey) with Christiana being my great great grandmother. I am happy to email this to anyone who would like a copy of it. I do not know where my mother obtained this information from.... possibly from my grandmother Ianthy Maydwell who was the granddaughter of Christiana.

In 2020, I shared this with HappySearcher, and also in 2020, I shared with her images that I had found of Christiana when she was residing in Sea Lake in the book Then Awake Sea Lake.