ID: I2471
Name: Elizabeth (Cis) WITNEY
Sex: F
Birth: 1873 in NSW Australia 1
Residence: 1955 Manly, Sydney NSW Australia 2
Note: Grace wrote regarding William WITNEY and Isabella Jane BURNS. 'Being childless they seem to have had a number of William's neices and nephews living with them over the years. When Robert's first wife, Annie Harvey died, they took the newborn baby, William and possibly the two youngest children back to Bathurst to live where William died the following year.Robert, however has all his children back living with him when his second wife, Mary Elizabeth MILNE dies. Mary's baby daughter, Mary Florence, aged two months when her mother died from Cholera, appears to have gone to live with her grandparents, Charles and Elizabeth MILNE in Kiama. Robert had the remainder of the children living with him in Sydney and my (Grace's) grandmother, Naomi Grace EZZEY [my great-grandmother] acted as his housekeeper for several years until his daughter, Elizabeth was old enough to take over. William and Sarah (possibly here, Grace meant to say Isabella?) may have taken Lillian for a time when her mother had her hands full with her third child Arthur, who lived for only a short time. Lillian, however, is back living with her parents in Sydney prior to her marriage. Elizabeth WITNEY, daughter of Robert WITNEY and Annie HARVEY, is known to have spent varying periods of time living with William and Isabella, and is definitely living with them in 1903 when her father remarries for the third time.'
Father: Robert WITNEY b: 1838 in Chinnor, Oxfordshire, England
Mother: Annie HARVEY b: Abt 1842 in County Tyrone, Ireland
Sources:
- Author: Rosemary O'NEILL (Witney, Ratley, Chown, Narroway, Franklin, White, Beard, Vials, Dorrill, Keen)
Note: Rosemary is descended via Edmund WITNEY and Elizabeth RATLEY, via their son Henery (Henry) WITNEY (1829), John Edward WITNEY (1850) dau Helen Rose WITNEY.
- Author: Grace Douglass (1930 - 2003)
Note: This page is dedicated to the memory of my late cousin Grace Douglass (1930 - 2003) in appreciation of all her assistance over the years and for the wonderful research that she and Laurel Legge published in their book 'Along the Windsor Richmond Road' 1985 (ISBN 0 9589831 0 0 and ISBN 0 9589831 3 5).
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