Ronald James Edwards, 19231977 (aged 54 years)

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Name
Ronald James /Edwards/
Type of name
birth name
Given names
Ronald James
Surname
Edwards
Birth
Occupation
Employer: Self-employed
Note: Uncle Ron was the youngest son of mum's eldest sister Agnes Edwards. The last time I met him was in Harden at Betty Mckinnon's home. He was married with 3 children.
Death of a paternal grandmother
Death of a paternal grandfather
Death of a sister
Cause: sudden
Marriage
Death of a father
Occupation
Employer: J & A Brown
Address: Between the beach and Pacific Highway, Belmont
Note: This address maybe called Blacksmiths. The main drag of Belmont was in the 1950s a type of theme park with permanent dodge-em cars, roller skating and pin ball alleys etc. The dominating feature of the area was the Swansea bridge, the entrance to Lake Macquarie. It was a large high wooden structure which wobbled when a truck went over it.
Death of a maternal grandmother
Address: Grandma Ginnie died at 78 Belgrave St, Sylvania. We lived at the end of the street second last house. It was a riverfront fronting the Georges River where Sylvania Waters is now situated. The house is still there. Gordon 14/09/2015 The house has been demolished and a typical Sydney mansion built at 3 Holt Place 28/09/2020. Gordon
Cause: natural, old age
Note: I was 8 yrs old. Packed off to stay with Auntie Nell in Bellfields. This was a regular occurence when a family crisis occurred.
Burial of a maternal grandmother
Address: Sylvania, Sutherland Shire, New South Wales, Australia
Burial
Woronora Memorial Park
Sutherland, Sutherland Shire, New South Wales, Australia Show Map
Plot Crematorium Area AA, Rose Garden 8, #188
Memorial ID 172957536
Religion: Protestant. Methodist
Note: Grandma was cremated at Sutherland District Cemetery and her ashes were in a Rose Garden there. I regularly took my mother Hazel there to visit the memorial, place some flowers and polish the brass plague.
Marriage of a brother
Occupation
Employer: Self-employed
Address: Clarke St, Harden
Death of a brother
Death of a sister
Death of a mother
Address: Harden Murrumburrah District Hospital
Cause: old age/ natural causes
Death
Family with parents
father
Young Edwards Family. Horace, George and Mavcis
18891946
Birth: 13 August 1889 32 29 Junee, New South Wales, Australia
Death: 7 July 1946Harden NSW
mother
elder sister
George and Mavis Edwards.jpg
19121940
Birth: 1912 22 22 Harden NSW
Death: 3 June 1940Harden NSW
3 years
elder brother
George Edwards.jpg
19141979
Birth: 17 September 1914 25 24 Harden NSW
Death: 11 August 1979Arncliffe NSW
16 months
elder brother
19151992
Birth: 1915 25 25 Harden NSW
Death: 21 September 1992Gundagai NSW
4 years
elder sister
19181972
Birth: 26 October 1918 29 28 Murrumburrah, New South Wales, Australia
Death: 22 February 1972Murrumburrah, New South Wales, Australia
2 years
elder brother
19201967
Birth: 21 November 1920 31 30 Harden-Murrumburrah NSW
Death: 2 April 1967Gundagai, New South Wales, Australia
3 years
himself
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19231977
Birth: 10 May 1923 33 33 Harden NSW
Death: 26 November 1977Matraville, Sydney, NSW
younger sister
Elizabeth (Betty) Edwards
Family with Amy Coates
himself
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19231977
Birth: 10 May 1923 33 33 Harden NSW
Death: 26 November 1977Matraville, Sydney, NSW
wife
Marriage Marriage1944Belmont, Newcastle, NSW
Occupation

This address maybe called Blacksmiths. The main drag of Belmont was in the 1950s a type of theme park with permanent dodge-em cars, roller skating and pin ball alleys etc. The dominating feature of the area was the Swansea bridge, the entrance to Lake Macquarie. It was a large high wooden structure which wobbled when a truck went over it.

Occupation

Uncle Ron was the youngest son of mum's eldest sister Agnes Edwards. The last time I met him was in Harden at Betty Mckinnon's home. He was married with 3 children.

Occupation
Media object
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