MARY EVELYN MORRIS
b: 14/9/1912
Bellevue Hill, NSW
d: 27/4/1995
Richmond, NSW
m: 12/4/1941
William Adrian Holloway
divorced: 1972
Mary Evelyn (Evie) was the eighth child of MARY CORNEY and ROBERT HENRY MORRIS. Her mother was 41 and her father 46. Mary's younger sister VIOLET MIRIAM was three years old when Mary Evelyn was born.
After her sister Violet died, Mary looked after my mother Nellie for the first year of her life. Mum said she remembered as a toddler, watching Mary tie up her corset. Electoral rolls at that time show that Mary lived with Mum and her father Stan for the first year of her life, at 110 Victoria Rd, Parramatta. It also shows that Mum's grandmother Mary Elizabeth was living with them two. When Mum is two, in 1937, Mary is still close by, living only two houses away at 114 Victoria Rd. Mary Elizabeth is also recorded as living at this address. Mary must have been caring for her elderly mother at this time, as her parents had separated. Mary's two sisters were married with their own families and Lillian was caring for their father Robert Henry. The caring fell to the girls but later Mary Elizabeth did go to Tamworth to live with Oliver and his family there.
On April 12th 1941, Mary married William Holloway at St Columbus in Flemington, Sydney.Mary is recorded as a saleswoman and Bill as a motor driver. Before hand on April 2nd, 1941 Bill was called up for duty. He was declared unfit for service as he had Myocarditis. Interestingly his Mobilization Attestation Form shows him as single and his NOK his mother, Ann Elizabeth in Homebush. This is then crossed out by hand and written 'married' with NOK Mary Evelyn. At that time Mary is recorded as a saleswoman and Bill as a motor driver. Bill at that time had been living with his elderly mother Ann Elizabeth. Bill was again called up for service from April 1942. However he was frequently hospitalised with tachycardia and neuro circulatory asthma and medically discharged as unfit for service in March 1943. During this time Mary was living with Bill's mother Ann Elizabeth at 27 Eastbourne Rd, Homebush. Ann Elizabeth had lost her husband Frederick John Holder Holloway in 1933.
Mary and Bill couldn't have their own children, and at forty years old, they adopted a boy and a girl, Kenneth ( 1952-2007) and Shirley (b: 1953. Shirley's later name was Glover.
The family resided at Homebush until around 1950. Mary's job was listed as a 'receiver' which actually a telephone operator. This was a very skilled job which involved manually connecting telephone lines in and out on a big switchboard. William's job was as a 'driver'. All of this time Bill's mother is living with the couple. Then in 1943, the family move to 43 Union Rd, Auburn. Mary's position is listed as a cash clerk. By 1958 they are living at 24 Hampstead St, Strathfield and Mary is occupied with 'home duties.' Ann Elizabeth had died in 1956 at 78 years old. During the 1960s Mary and Bill ran a Newsagency at 77 Arthur St, Strathfield. Anecdotally I was told (via Lyle Whitehead), this was a very difficult time for the family and their two children who had behavioural issues. In 1972 the couple move to 5 Morton St, Parramatta but that is the last address they live together and they divorce in 1972. William moves back to Merryland (where he lived with his mother before he met Mary). Mary is living in Douglas St, Richmond.
William passed away in 1990 and Mary died in 1995. She was a resident of the Community Nursing Home in Richmond but died in Hawkesbury Hospital of Respiratory Failure, Pneumonia, Congestive Heart Failure and Ischaemic Heart disease.
After her sister Violet died, Mary looked after my mother Nellie for the first year of her life. Mum said she remembered as a toddler, watching Mary tie up her corset. Electoral rolls at that time show that Mary lived with Mum and her father Stan for the first year of her life, at 110 Victoria Rd, Parramatta. It also shows that Mum's grandmother Mary Elizabeth was living with them two. When Mum is two, in 1937, Mary is still close by, living only two houses away at 114 Victoria Rd. Mary Elizabeth is also recorded as living at this address. Mary must have been caring for her elderly mother at this time, as her parents had separated. Mary's two sisters were married with their own families and Lillian was caring for their father Robert Henry. The caring fell to the girls but later Mary Elizabeth did go to Tamworth to live with Oliver and his family there.
On April 12th 1941, Mary married William Holloway at St Columbus in Flemington, Sydney.Mary is recorded as a saleswoman and Bill as a motor driver. Before hand on April 2nd, 1941 Bill was called up for duty. He was declared unfit for service as he had Myocarditis. Interestingly his Mobilization Attestation Form shows him as single and his NOK his mother, Ann Elizabeth in Homebush. This is then crossed out by hand and written 'married' with NOK Mary Evelyn. At that time Mary is recorded as a saleswoman and Bill as a motor driver. Bill at that time had been living with his elderly mother Ann Elizabeth. Bill was again called up for service from April 1942. However he was frequently hospitalised with tachycardia and neuro circulatory asthma and medically discharged as unfit for service in March 1943. During this time Mary was living with Bill's mother Ann Elizabeth at 27 Eastbourne Rd, Homebush. Ann Elizabeth had lost her husband Frederick John Holder Holloway in 1933.
Mary and Bill couldn't have their own children, and at forty years old, they adopted a boy and a girl, Kenneth ( 1952-2007) and Shirley (b: 1953. Shirley's later name was Glover.
The family resided at Homebush until around 1950. Mary's job was listed as a 'receiver' which actually a telephone operator. This was a very skilled job which involved manually connecting telephone lines in and out on a big switchboard. William's job was as a 'driver'. All of this time Bill's mother is living with the couple. Then in 1943, the family move to 43 Union Rd, Auburn. Mary's position is listed as a cash clerk. By 1958 they are living at 24 Hampstead St, Strathfield and Mary is occupied with 'home duties.' Ann Elizabeth had died in 1956 at 78 years old. During the 1960s Mary and Bill ran a Newsagency at 77 Arthur St, Strathfield. Anecdotally I was told (via Lyle Whitehead), this was a very difficult time for the family and their two children who had behavioural issues. In 1972 the couple move to 5 Morton St, Parramatta but that is the last address they live together and they divorce in 1972. William moves back to Merryland (where he lived with his mother before he met Mary). Mary is living in Douglas St, Richmond.
William passed away in 1990 and Mary died in 1995. She was a resident of the Community Nursing Home in Richmond but died in Hawkesbury Hospital of Respiratory Failure, Pneumonia, Congestive Heart Failure and Ischaemic Heart disease.
Mary with her father, Robert Henry Morris c: 1938
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